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  1. Walls were parted, and the predesigned traps were all up. Only he would get out alive; even bodies of steel and brass could not possibly bear this. There was a release of steam and a chorus of ticking, as if the machine was answering to him triumphantly.
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  3. But then, it stopped. Silence fell once more, except for the humming from the automata.
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  5. He noticed that the woman was staring at the parts of the machine that exposed itself. inexplicably, he understood that it was not his machine that had malfunctioned; it was her that willed it to stop. She looked back at him, and he felt only contempt from the expressionless face.
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