shortest story ever

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"No see you can't go in there. They say there's a monster with razor sharp fangs and talons for nails who will kill and devour you! Please! No one has ever come out alive!"

She pleaded with the hero, begging and wringing her hands.

"Who's they?"
"Wha- what?"
"If no one makes it out alive then who is they? The forest is perfectly safe I assure you." The hero's voice is steady.
With that she watches him stroll into the deadly trees. I'd warned him, she thinks as she walks towards the forest herself. He didn't listen. She runs her tongue over her razor sharp fangs, she always warns them. Now she can dine with a clear... oh what is it that humans call it? Conscience!
Flexing her hands so her talons slide out she disappears into the line of trees.
She always warns them.

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