I'm warning you all, NEVER TOUCH A MOLE! An acquaintance of mine perished because of one…

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This was a person who regularly completed triathlons and was a gym stalwart, a titan of human fitness. We were together in the countryside when we spotted a mole in a field…

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A child, bless their innocent heart, tried to pet the 'cute' creature. We all tried to stop them, but my acquaintance, with a misplaced, confident swagger, just waved us off and touched the thing…

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And in a flash, he was gone. Right in front of us, the beast snatched him up and dragged him into the very bowels of the earth!

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All that remained was a single, choked-off scream before he was swallowed by the deep dirt. The memory is a wound that never truly heals…

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I swear on that day, I made a pact with the surface world: I WILL NEVER, EVER CROSS THE PATH OF A MOLE AGAIN.