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Elin wondered, sitting in the sweat bath, what that had to do with passion or desire, and decided - nothing. It was justification. They had murdered the men and must prove, on the helpless bodies of the women, that they were truly stronger. Prove it to exhaustion: not even pleasure was in it for them

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