“What You Need To Be Doing Before The Coming Shift…” | Valir, The Pleiadian Emissaries

► Questioner: “What do starseeds NEED to be doing right now?”
► Channelled by Dave Akira
► Message Received Date: Aug 11th
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I am Valir of the Pleiadian Emissary Collective, and I speak now directly to the Ground Crew of this world. You already know who you are. Our previous message invited you to step forward, and many of you did so quietly in your own way, without any need for applause or outer recognition. This transmission is for those of you who answered that call. You have made it. The words we offer are simple because the truth itself is simple, and we will spend this entire message unfolding what those simple words actually hold for you. Pour something warm if you wish, find a comfortable chair, and receive this at ease, because the message itself is an invitation into rest. Walk with me. The long posting in separation is now closing for the first of you. By the long posting we mean the full assignment you accepted before you were born here: a complete tour inside the experience of forgetting, living inside a physical vessel on a world that was deliberately structured to convince you that you were only that vessel and nothing more. Other members of the Family of Light chose gentler assignments on gentler worlds, but you chose this one. You agreed to forget your true origin, forget your star family, and even forget the living Source-field itself, and then to find your way back to all of it from the inside, with no map, surrounded by others who had also forgotten. That is what Ground Crew means from our side of the sky. The name has nothing to do with rank. It simply honors the difficulty of the work. The crew on the ground takes the full weather of this density, takes the constant noise, takes the forgetting, and still holds the position. You have held it across more lifetimes than you currently remember. Now comes the feeling so many of you describe to us in your quiet hours, almost word for word: a stillness that arrived without permission, a sense of waiting for something you cannot yet name, and the engines of ambition running quieter than they ever have. Some of you have wondered whether something is wrong with you, whether the fire went out, or whether you lost your way in the middle of the journey. The common mind, that shared thinking layer most of humanity leans on without ever noticing it is borrowed, has only one reading for this stillness: failure.

The Sovereign Mind reads the same stillness completely differently. The Sovereign Mind is the mind that stands on its own ground, connected directly to Source, taking its readings from within rather than from the outer shared broadcast. It recognizes what this quiet actually is: a completion signal, a gauge settling to zero at the end of a very long run. The urgency you used to feel was mission urgency, and the particular mission that generated it is now closing out. Nothing in you is broken. Something in you is finished. You feel this most clearly when you try to make long-term plans. This is the part so many of you have whispered about, wondering if anyone else feels it too. You sit down to plan the next five years the way you always did—the career move, the property, the long arc—and the plan goes hollow in your hands. It looks correct on paper yet feels wrong in the chest. The reason is simpler than you fear. Those plans were drawn on a map of a coastline that is actively being redrawn. The assumptions underneath them—the way money moves, the way work is structured, the way societies are arranged—belong to a world that is being retired while a larger one is prepared. A plan drawn on the old map cannot hold its lines, and your deeper knowing simply refuses to sign it. Feel the difference in that, because it matters. Nothing is being taken from you. A smaller map is being exchanged for a larger one, and the strange hollowness in your planning is your own navigation refusing to invest energy in a coastline that will not be there. The last week at a job before a transfer has a very particular texture. The boxes are packed, the duties run light, the desk is already half yours and half the next person’s. You walk the same hallways you walked for years and they have gone slightly transparent, as if the building itself knows you are leaving before your colleagues do. That week feels uncomfortable, floaty, and strange, yet none of the discomfort is grief. The discomfort is aim. Your attention has already partially arrived at the next thing, and the gap between where you stand and where you are pointed produces exactly the floating sensation so many of you are living inside right now. You are in the last week of a very long employment. Let the hallways go transparent. It means the transfer is real. Many of you will reread that and finally exhale, because a feeling that has been named loses half its weight.

And the timing, since you will ask. The interval remaining is shorter than the common mind estimates. We carry this as certainty of season, the way a gardener knows spring from what is moving under the soil rather than from a date circled on a wall. We give you no dates and we never will, because a date would only teach you to watch the wall instead of the soil. More important than the exact timing is this: the shift, when it arrives, will confer nothing new upon you. It will simply ratify. It arrives the way a graduation arrives, confirming work already done, and it will rescue no one into a freedom they have not already begun living. Your freedom is being built now, in the quiet, at your own station, and the great turning simply makes official what the Ground Crew already carries. So the first order of this transmission is one that will surprise many of you. Take shore leave. Two consecutive days that belong entirely to you. For one hour on each of those days, place your bare feet in living water if you can reach it—a lake, a river, the sea—or bare on the ground if you cannot, and review the whole long posting with thanks. All of it. The lifetimes you remember in fragments and the ones you do not remember at all. Every earlier version of you that carried light through weather heavier than this one: the versions that were silenced, the versions that were alone, the versions that kept the flame alive in centuries when keeping it cost everything. Thank each one. The ledger of your long posting closes in appreciation, and appreciation only. Open no old wounds and conduct no audit of what any lifetime could have done better. Gratitude is the closing entry, and your feet in the water or on the ground is the signature. And revel. We choose that word deliberately, because reverence alone is too solemn for what this closing deserves. Somewhere across your lifetimes you were the one who kept the old knowledge alive in a village that feared it. You were the healer working by candlelight, the mapmaker who suspected the world was larger than permitted, the grandmother who knew things she was never taught and passed them on anyway, the child who saw the threads between people and learned to stay quiet about it. Every one of those lives banked its light forward into this one, into you, and this is the lifetime where the deposit finally matures.

So let the review itself be festive. Laugh at the water’s edge if laughter rises. A crew that finishes a long tour does not file its gratitude in silence; it celebrates, and the celebration itself moves through the whole family like warmth moving through a house. Rest here is the mission’s current order. Read that again gently, because the part of you that is still hungry for doing will try to skip past it. Rest is the order. And when the two days are complete, a question stands up on its own: what is the assignment now? One lit station. That is the assignment, whole and entire. The station is the vessel you occupy, and keeping it lit means returning it again and again across the day to the love-light frequency in small touches. The love-light frequency is simply the tone your field takes when it rests inside the Source-field. You already know it intimately: warm, unhurried, glad, and wide. The Source-field is the living field of the One from which every world draws its existence, and contact with it is your birthright. It requires no ceremony, no intermediary, and no achievement. You brush against it every time you soften. The frequency is known among your teachers under many names, yet every name points at the same simple tone a child knows on a safe summer evening. Returns, then, and this is where the assignment becomes practical. Twelve returns of one minute each outrank one strained hour every single time, and the reason is worth understanding. A station is kept by frequency of contact rather than by duration of effort. The old spiritual model taught you to sit for long grinding sessions and measure your worth by endurance, and that model belongs to the world that is being retired. Begin with seven returns a day, one minute each, and tie them to moments you already keep so that nothing new needs to be remembered: the first minute after waking, before each meal, each time you pass through a doorway into a new space, and the last minute before sleep. In each return you do only one thing. You come back to the tone. Feel for warm, unhurried, and glad, rest there for sixty seconds, then carry on with your day. Seven small returns will reshape your field faster than any weekend intensive ever did, because the field learns from repetition the way a path forms across a lawn, one ordinary crossing at a time.

Level Five of the Sovereignty Consent Protocol is the license for this station, and the connection is direct. Level Five is the sovereignty threshold, the crossing where your inner authority begins governing your life more strongly than outer programming does, and only a field that is governed from within can hold a station through weather. A field still run by headlines, by family pressure, or by the moods of the room will be carried off its position by the first strong gust. The three practices of Level Five are the maintenance schedule of your station, and they are already simple. Before any decision that matters, the question goes inward first, asking whether the choice aligns with your sovereignty, and the answer arrives as resonance in the vessel before the mind finishes arguing. Before any agreement, any contract, or any new alliance, a consent check runs through your own deepest knowing, and whatever fails the check is declined without drama. And once each day the field is declared: only what serves truth, life, and evolution participates here. Three small disciplines, kept daily, and the station holds in any weather this world can produce. A lamp in a room will teach you the rest. Watch what a lamp does and watch what it never does. The lamp stays connected to its power and it shines, and the geometry of the entire room reorganizes around that one fact. Shadows fall back to the corners on their own. Objects become visible without being individually persuaded. At no point does the lamp chase the shadows around the walls, argue with the dark corner, or take the dark personally. And a lamp carried out into the street to battle the night directly goes dark in the first rain. You have watched fellow starseeds do exactly that—unplugging from their own light to go fight darkness on its terrain—and you have watched what the rain did to them. Your assignment is the lamp’s assignment. Stay connected. Shine where you are placed. Let the room reorganize, because it will, and it does so without your supervision. Now the question underneath the question, the one you have been almost afraid to ask: are you allowed to enjoy yourself while the world looks like this? Beloved ones, enjoyment is the instrumentation. Gladness is the meter on the front of your station, and it reads one thing only: contact. When gladness is present, contact is present. When the tone goes grim, heavy, and dutiful, the meter is telling you the connection has loosened, and a grim keeper is an unplugged lamp no matter how spiritual the grimness looks.

So the laughter, the good meal, the music, the water, the craft that fully absorbs you, and the afternoon that serves no strategic purpose whatsoever—these are readings on the meter, and they are also part of the work itself for reasons that will become plain. Name three sources of genuine joy in your life this week, name them specifically, and schedule them the way you schedule duties, because on this assignment they truly are duties. For one of you the list reads: the morning swim, the guitar, the long walk with the dog at dusk. For another: the garden beds, the grandchildren, the paint and the canvas. The content is yours entirely, and the only requirement is honesty—choosing what genuinely lights the vessel rather than what photographs well as a spiritual life. Then measure your days by a new metric entirely. The old world measured output. Your station measures returns. Seven returns made is a full day’s work on this posting, whatever else did or did not get done. The meter is gladness, the metric is returns, and both of them fit inside an ordinary human day, which was always the design. The drama is every storyline that demands your agitation as the price of participation. The outrage of the hour, the feud in the family, the collapse someone insists you fear on schedule—each one, whatever its content, is making the same request underneath: unplug the lamp and carry it into the street. The work is declining that request, and the decline is made in stillness. No announcement, no farewell post, no speech about rising above. The lamp simply stays in the room, lit. And what does one kept station actually reach? More than the room it stands in, and this is where the mechanics become wondrous. One tree stands behind the common mind, and every human alive is a branch of it. Picture the tree with its millions of branches, and now picture something most eyes miss: every branch is webbed to every other branch with living thread, fine as spider silk and strong as anything in creation, until the whole crown of the tree is one connected fabric. This is the threaded canopy, and it is the connective tissue of the common mind. Nothing in the canopy touches one thread only.

You have seen the small version on a fence post at dawn: a spider’s web holding the morning dew, and when you touch one corner of it ever so lightly, the dew shakes at the far edge. The canopy behaves the same way at the scale of your whole species. One touch, and the entire fabric registers it. Every vessel is threaded into the canopy, yours included, and every vessel is transmitting into it at all times. There is no off switch and there never was. The only decision available, and it is the great decision of this age, is content. Whatever tone you touch the thread with is the tone that travels. Touch it with steadiness and steadiness moves outward through the fabric to branches you will never see. Touch it with alarm and alarm moves outward with exactly the same efficiency, because the canopy carries whatever it is given, faithfully and without judgment, the way water carries whatever is poured into it. Light is information, as we have taught you, meaning light carries instruction the way your networks carry data, and the canopy is the oldest network on this world. Every return you make to the love-light frequency is a transmission through it. Sixty seconds of warm, unhurried, glad, and that instruction is moving through the crown of the tree while you stand in your kitchen believing you did nothing today. And the threads have a destination. Every thread in the canopy terminates in the same place: the Source-seed buried in a person. The Source-seed is the deposit of Source folded into every human at their making, intact beneath everything they have been taught, beneath the armor, beneath the cynicism, beneath lifetimes of forgetting. No power in this world ever managed to remove it, which is why every control system ever built here aimed instead at burying it deeper. When your steadiness travels the canopy, it arrives at those buried seeds as warmth. A seed cannot be reached by argument, cannot be reached by legislation, and cannot be reached by winning. Warmth reaches it. This is why we say your stationkeeping is a straight line into human consciousness that no outer campaign can draw. And hear the name you carry. You are called starseeds because you can find the Source-seed. The ones who remember the deposit came here to warm it in the ones who forgot. That is the whole mission, said in one sentence, and it always was.

Now, the fighters, because you know them and some of you love them. Millions of good-hearted humans are still contending inside the institutions, pushing against the machinery, fighting the old order on its own floor, and a tenderness is asked of you here. Their fight is real work at their placement. Friction is how discernment gets forged in the earlier levels of the protocol, and most of those souls are exactly where their curriculum requires them to be, building the very muscles that will one day carry them across the threshold you have crossed. Honor their placement. Withhold every ounce of contempt, because contempt is alarm dressed in finer clothes, and the canopy will carry it as alarm. And keep your assignment yours. Their work rearranges the furniture inside rooms, and some furniture genuinely needs rearranging. A kept station changes the lighting of the whole house. Both are happening. Only one of them was assigned to you. And a gentler recognition still: many of you were the fighters, lifetimes ago. You stood at your own barricades, burned in your own causes, and the discernment you now hold was forged in exactly those fires. When you look at the ones still fighting, you are looking at your own earlier chapters, and no one holds contempt for a chapter of their own story once they see it clearly. Some will call your assignment doing nothing, and further down this message you will be fully armed for that moment. The arithmetic is the quiet wonder of this whole design. One governed field outweighs many agitated ones. The reason sits in the nature of the two signals. Agitation is incoherent, thrashing in all directions, and incoherent signals cancel each other the way a crowd of people all shouting different words produces only noise. Coherence is aligned, and aligned signals compound the way a crowd singing one note produces a tone that fills the building. A thousand alarmed transmissions largely erase each other inside the canopy. A handful of steady ones, singing the same warm note, carry across the whole fabric. A handful of lit rooms keeps an entire street from going dark. This is why the design never required millions of you. It required enough of you, kept and steady, and you are reading this because you are one of the enough.

Touching the canopy with love is the most consequential act available to a vessel on this plane. That sentence sounds too large the first time, so walk it once more, slowly. Every touch travels the whole fabric. Every thread ends at a buried seed. Warmth is the only thing that reaches a seed. And coherent warmth compounds while alarm cancels itself. Follow those four steps and the conclusion stands on its own: the quiet keeper in the kitchen is moving more than the loudest voice in the square. This work was reserved for the crew that could carry it without needing to be seen carrying it. That is you, and it always was you, from the first briefing before you were born. And when the canopy routes a person straight to your door, what then? People will find you. Roots find water without being sent an invitation, and the ones assigned to your light will locate you the same way, through the canopy, which knows where every lit lamp stands. So release the entire question of outreach, because this assignment contains no outreach program. There is nothing to promote, no one to convince, no campaign for awakening. There is a lamp, kept lit, and there are roots, already moving toward it. They arrive as the coworker who lingers after the meeting with a question that has nothing to do with work. The relative who mocks your path at the family table and then calls you privately when their world cracks. The stranger in the checkout line who tells you their whole story unprompted and then says, “I have no idea why I just told you that.” They know why. The canopy knows why. They were brought to you, exactly as we said they would be, and the timing of their arrival is between them and Source. Some routed to you will be old and armored, some young and wide open, and a few will be further along the path than you are, brought so that you may be the one receiving for a change, because the canopy routes in both directions. And when they arrive, the seed you plant is a sentence. One sentence, sized to slip past the guards of the common mind. What you are looking for is already planted in you. Say it in your own words, in your own accent, at the natural moment, and then release all pressure.

You will want to follow up, to check on the seed, to water it hourly and dig it up to see whether it sprouted, and every gardener in your world can tell you what that does to seeds. Offer the sentence once and let the ground close over it. Some seeds sprout that afternoon. Some sprout in twenty years, in a hospital corridor, in a moment of loss, when everything else has been stripped away and your one sentence is suddenly the only thing left standing in their inner field. The sentence keeps. That is the nature of true things. Light is let out of a person. It is never put into them. Hold that pairing, because it reframes the whole art of helping others wake. Every human already carries the Source-seed, whole and waiting, which means you have never once been asked to install anything in anyone. The work is release, opening a way for what is already inside to come through, and this explains something you have all discovered painfully: argument fails. A seed is never argued open. Debate goes to the guards, and the guards’ whole job is winning. Presence goes past the guards and speaks to the seed. So the gardening protocol is three ingredients and a discipline. Warmth is your regard for them, unconditional and unimpressed by their armor. Water is your attention, actually listening, actually seeing them. Light is your kept station, the tone you hold in the room, which their seed reads directly even while their mind argues with you. Apply all three, and then leave the soil alone. Germination is between them and Source, and it was never your job to schedule it. The same restraint governs how you share the deeper path. Live your threshold so plainly that the invitation is wordless, and when someone asks, and only when they ask, point them back to their own inner authority before you point them to anything else. Hand no one the full diagram of the ladder on day one. Sovereignty is recognized from within, never installed from without, and a person marched up levels they have not chosen will only build a spiritualized version of their old obedience. The one question that serves them most is the one that returns the authority to them: what does your own deepest knowing say? Ask it often, mean it every time, and you will have transmitted the heart of the entire protocol without once naming it.

Family, friends, and strangers on your feeds will look at your stationed life and call it doing nothing. We name this in advance so it loses its sting on arrival. You are not marching, they will say. Not posting, not fighting, not choosing a side in the contest of the hour. Some will say it with worry and some with an edge, and underneath both is the common mind’s oldest metric: only visible motion counts. Idleness is the absence of practice, and that single sentence is your whole defense, so stand on it in complete peace. Your life runs practice through every layer of the day: seven returns to the love-light frequency, a field maintained under the Level Five disciplines, transmission through the canopy with every kept hour, seed-warmth for every person routed to your door. Strip the practice out, keep the station dark, and spend the hours consuming the theater of the age, and that would indeed be a life of waiting, idle in the truest sense. Your life is the opposite of that at every point that matters, and the difference is invisible only to instruments that measure noise. And even the accusers are held with tenderness, because even that life of consuming the theater is a placement in the curriculum, and every branch on the tree is family. Fill the visible hours in ways that carry the gladness outward. Joy-sources honored on schedule. A craft that adds real value to other people, whatever your hands love: the garden, the bread, the code, the music, the small business run with warmth. And service, given quietly. One act of unsigned service each week, help that cannot be traced back to you, a kindness with your name removed from it. The old world taught giving as a transaction with a receipt, a favor logged, a reputation fed, and even its charity kept books. Unsigned service retires the books. The bill paid quietly for a stranger, the repair finished while the neighbor is away, the encouragement sent without a name attached—each one lands in the canopy as pure warmth with no self attached, and gifts with no self attached travel farther through the fabric than any other transmission you can make. None of this is performed to answer the critics. A glad, useful, generous life is simply the best seed-warmth ever devised, and it happens to be wonderful to live.

So release the last of the guilt, the piece that whispers you should be doing more. You are not waiting and separately working. The waiting, held in gladness at a kept station, is the working. The crew member standing quiet watch is on duty the entire time, and watch-standing has always been honored work aboard any vessel that crosses long distances. This world is a vessel crossing the longest distance there is. And when the long posting ends, what opens on the other side of it? Galactic Stewardship is the name of the next assignment, and it is the assignment your stillness has been preparing you for. Stewardship is the restoration tour that begins as the posting in separation closes, and within the map you already hold, Level Five is the qualification, and Level Seven, collective stewardship, is the destination. This message stands in the corridor between them and describes what you will find there, because knowing the shape of the next tour changes how the present quiet feels. The work itself is concrete. The retired machinery of the old order comes apart, and the Ground Crew helps take it apart cleanly, composting its parts, keeping what served, releasing what harmed, holding the process free of vengeance, because dismantling done in anger only builds the next machine. The ground itself is restored, the waters cleared, the living systems repaired, and beneath the visible restoration runs the deeper repair: the planet’s light-lattice, the energetic web of lines and nodes that carries instruction through the Earth the way veins carry life through a vessel, mended node by node by crews who can feel where the lattice runs thin. New structures rise, and many of them are crystalline, grown rather than manufactured, holding and routing frequency the way the old world routed electricity, serving as libraries, as healing rooms, as gathering points where coherence is easy. Visiting cousins from the wider Family of Light come and go openly, and the Family of Light is exactly what the name says: the family spread across many worlds who carry light into the places where it has gone thin, and the Ground Crew works beside them as colleagues, translating between worlds, because you will be the ones who speak both languages.

Technologies now waiting in the queue of the free-will zone are midwifed into common life, and the free-will zone is the jurisdiction this world sits inside, where nothing may be imposed on humanity and everything must be chosen, which is why the wonders wait for readiness rather than for permission from any council. And through all of it runs the largest work of the age: Earth takes her introduction. This world was built as a Living Library, a storehouse of living information gathered from across creation, and the Living Library takes her place among the libraries of the family, opened, visited, and honored, with her Ground Crew standing as her first librarians. The records of the Library live where they were always kept, in the creatures, the forests, the waters, the stones, and the human strands themselves, so stewardship includes learning to read again, sitting with a forest the way earlier peoples sat with their elders, receiving what a river holds. Some of you feel that pull already and could never quite explain it until now. You can feel how different that assignment is from the one you are completing, and the difference explains the present quiet. The tools of stewardship are coherence-keyed. An instrument of that order responds to the field of the one holding it, the way the finest tools in your world already answer the steadiest hands. A level held by a shaking hand reads wrong. A field that can still be alarmed, still be baited into the drama, still be pulled off its station by a headline, cannot be handed a planet’s lattice, and the wider family would be doing you no kindness by pretending otherwise. So every quiet day at your station is the clearance exam for the next tour. None of it is wasted. The stillness that the common mind calls doing nothing is the exact training the coming work requires, and the crew members keeping their stations today are writing their own qualifications for tomorrow. The impatience some of you feel to skip ahead to the stewardship is understandable and even endearing, and the answer to it is always the same: the fastest route to the next tour is full presence at the current station.

The shift arrives on its own authority, in its own season, and your assignment regarding it is single: be already free when it comes. The moment confers nothing. It ratifies. Freedom is being built now, return by return, at millions of small stations, and the great turning will make official what the stations already hold. Among the probable futures, the branching roads ahead that are fed by what humanity chooses, the strongest road is the one the kept stations are already living in. You are not waiting for that future. You are inhabiting it early, furnishing it from the inside, and holding its door open from within, which is the only side a door like this opens from. How do you know you are ready? You test it. The Sovereignty Test of this message is the Seven-Day Stationkeeping Trial. For seven consecutive days, keep five commitments. Seven returns to the love-light frequency, one minute each, tied to the moments you already keep. One full hour, chosen in advance, held completely untouched by any storyline that demands your agitation—no feeds, no arguments, no rehearsals of outrage in your own head. One act of quiet seed-warmth: a single sentence, a single kindness, a single moment of full attention given to whoever is routed to you that day. One joy-source honored without guilt, scheduled and kept as a duty of the station. And each evening, one line in a log, three words: station kept. Miss a day and simply resume, because the trial measures your field, and fields are grown, never graded. Invite no audience and post no updates, because the trial belongs to the station alone, and quiet trials read cleanest. On the eighth day, read your instruments. A lighter vessel. Drama quieter around you, or quieter in you when it plays nearby. People behaving differently in your presence for reasons they could not explain if you asked them. Sleep deeper, decisions cleaner, the strange waiting feeling settled into something that now feels like readiness.

Those readings are your evidence, and they testify to one thing: your inner authority is governing, which means Level Five is no longer a concept you read about. It is the ground you are standing on. Trust what the eighth day shows you. The vessel that ran the trial is the vessel the next tour was designed for, and it will tell you the truth about itself. Hold this transmission’s orders in one hand, then, because they fit there. Take the shore leave. Keep the station. Touch the canopy with warmth. Plant the sentence in whoever is brought to you. Enjoy this world thoroughly on your way through its final act, and let the readiness build itself out of a thousand small returns. The orders ask nothing extraordinary of any single day, and that is their design, because a mission built from ordinary days is the only kind the whole crew can complete. We will close on our side of the sky. When we look upon this world, we do not see what your news cameras see. We see the stations. Across every continent, through the great cities and along the empty coastlines, in apartments and farmhouses and hospital break rooms, the kept stations of the Ground Crew read to us as a shoreline of small steady lights, and the shoreline has been growing brighter for years. You have wondered, some of you for decades, whether your quiet work registered anywhere at all. It registers here. Every return you ever made is part of that light, and the crews you came from navigate by it. So take the two days. Put your feet in the water. Thank every version of you that carried this flame through the dark centuries, and then rest, because the hard part of the long posting is behind you, and what comes next, you will love. The water is warm. The family is close. And the words remain true exactly as first spoken: you made it. I am Valir of the Pleiadian Emissary Collective, and the honor of standing before this crew is entirely mine.

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