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The thunder comes before the lightning, which comes before the cloud. The rain dries all the land it touches, wrapping the earth in a blood red shroud. What am I?
What word is pronounced the same if you take away four of its five letters?
Squeeze me and I cry tears as red as flesh, but my heart is made of stone. What am I?
I am used to bat with, yet I never get a hit. I am near a ball, yet never thrown. What am I?
I run around the city but I never move.
Dry though I may be, I am still a sea.