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This fragment keeps the river-and-street motif but turns it into a plea not to join whatever is already hunting the lost.

The handwritten replacement changes the ending from a reprimand into a quieter refusal. It reads like a warning against being absorbed into violence simply because it is already moving.

'''A cut-down 'Loss of Quest' continuation. Feels good, street girl, 'American woodsmen will come to hurt you down.' 'Keep in mind, you are not all that is lost / Don't join.' Marginalia scratched throughout.'''