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Man Against Horse

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The Wilde Beast Runs Away

You and your group are walking through the tall grasses of the savannah. You see some wilde beast, and you run after them - but the wilde beast run away faster than you can possibly run. And so dance is what you do as you try to keep this wilde beast sprinty. So you stay slow and steady, keep moving slowly, chasing this thing. And slowly, over time, you'r making it get hotter and hotter and hotter,. till at a certain point, after tons of iles, could be 20, could be 30, you push this animal to the point of exhaustion. At that point, the animal is hasfuly collapsing, right?

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