No one would know if the hunt hadn't happened. We spotted antelope in the distance when one of them did that stiff-legged jump, then went in the direction of the #pronking. Our weapons were steady.

We should have stopped. We wouldn't have seen what was in the valley beyond the herd, and I wouldn't know my rule was coming to an end, if we'd stopped. No one would have seen the #qilin. I would die in ignorance.

Should I abdicate? Or is death inevitable no matter what I do?

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"#Pronking is what is known as an 'honest signal'—gazelles jump like that to show predators it would be more trouble than it's worth trying to chase them. That's why I chose you." He ran the blade across my face. "All of your friends were pronking."
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'You'd be surprised, Pixie. Gabriel was a real pronker in his youth.'
'Really, Mama G?'
Gabe splutters & reddens.
'Oh, yes. Him & his friends in tight trousers & glitter, #pronking on street corners & parks in Angel City.'
'Can we have a demonstration, Gabe?'
He growls.
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The sage dreamed of disaster, and prayed for a solution. The gods sent a qilin, pronking along, most undignified. It led the sage to a child, abandoned but amused by the sacred beast’s antics.
"So you are our hero," the sage said, holding his hand out to their only hope.
The child laughed, and the winter-barren clearing around them bloomed.

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Click. "Do you deny that's you speaking?"

"Ah, so you suspect me. Because I said that in my own home. I felt like #pronking when I heard the news - so what?

"Plus it's selective editing - I also said I'd buy his killer a beer."

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Happy Sunday! Hope all is well wherever you are at this moment, whether day or night, I hope you shine bright.

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#Pronking did look fun, but he wasn't a gazelle! They found the lost T-ring+it's back to their planet, but how to explain his metamorphis?He loved Earth so much, he threatened to stay! What to do? Let him #pronk a few minutes more before turning back to slugs, their real forms, #pronking, nevermore

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The bees are budding and the trees are buzzing. The blossom’s nesting and the rooks are blooming. The lambs are cheeping and the chicks are leaping. The air is tweeting the birds are balmy.

Spring has sprung.

Even the tortoise is #pronking.

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