Yeah, yeah. Look with your special eyes, etc. Impressions: I think the worst part of this is the knowledge that this is going to be a whole goddamned major story arc of this one dude screaming about his special eyes. What restraint too, stopping at just a dude with giant eyes and a dude […]
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