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Speaker 1: Sandel squirmed against the man's
grip, but he held her tight. This is the

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Speaker 1: part where you tell me everything.

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Speaker 1: He emphasized his point by pressing
the knife just hard enough to prick her skin.

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Speaker 1: I'm here on a job. With who? Two
others. Hmm,

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Speaker 1: would that be the two men you sat
with? Yes, how did... Ah, ah, ah, ah,

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Speaker 1: keep talking. He'd been watching
them? How? She'd been careful.

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Speaker 1: So careful. A job for who? Talk.

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Speaker 1: I can't say. The knife bit into
Sandel's skin, sinking in just half an inch but

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Speaker 1: enough to make her gasp in pain. The
Puppeteer.

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Speaker 1: Figured, but I needed to be sure.
Didn't guess they'd send more than one team.
That

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Speaker 1: was dirty. Then he sighed, like he
was stealing himself to do

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Speaker 1: something he would dislike. And
Sandel's intuition told her this was it. If

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Speaker 1: she didn't fight now, there wouldn't
be another chance. She didn't drift. Not right

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Speaker 1: away, because he would be expecting
that. Instead, she brought her head back as hard

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Speaker 1: as she could. She felt a crunch
against the back of her head and felt a knife
dig

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Speaker 1: into her side. Then she was drifting.
Not forward, toward the present frame, but

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Speaker 1: backward. Backward as fast as she
could go. She flew through time. The shock
trooper

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Speaker 1: guards reappeared. The vault door
reappeared. Minutes flew by in mere seconds. She

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Speaker 1: watched the two guards talk to each
other, silently with exaggerated speed. Harder.

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Speaker 1: She needed to push harder. A man with
a hat briefly flickered into view. She drifted

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Speaker 1: farther back in time to get away from
him. Her head was spinning. Nausea started to

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Speaker 1: set in. She'd never gone this fast.
Never tried to race to the brink. The

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Speaker 1: man in the hat appeared in an instant
and rammed a shoulder into her. Sandel fell

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Speaker 1: over, drifted a dozen frames, then
got back up. He appeared next to her and stabbed

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Speaker 1: with the knife. She drifted away,
causing him to vanish just before the knife
struck

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Speaker 1: her. Sandel breathed heavily. Her
mind was stuffy. Her fingers tingled and her
limbs

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Speaker 1: went numb. Too fast. She was going
too fast. But she kept drifting

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Speaker 1: anyway. It was the only way. The only
way to escape.

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Speaker 1: Sandel didn't know how far back in
time she'd gone when she finally stopped. It had

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Speaker 1: only been a few minutes for her, but
these frames were probably hours old already.

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Speaker 1: When she stood, she looked up at open
sky. The train around her was melting away

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Speaker 1: into black dust. The desert around
the train was darkness, deep and black.

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Speaker 1: Two men lay on the ground here, one
curled up in a fetal position, the other

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Speaker 1: completely motionless. Sandel tried
to drift farther back but felt a strong

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Speaker 1: resistance. There were no older
frames. She was here. She

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Speaker 1: panicked and waited for it, but the
man in the hat didn't appear again. One of the

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Speaker 1: shock troopers on the ground looked
up at her. Are you real? Sandel

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Speaker 1: stumbled backward. What were they
doing here? They were alive? How did they

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Speaker 1: get here? She kept walking backwards.
The vault door was still here in this frame,

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Speaker 1: but part of the wall was missing
already. Finally, a bit of good luck. She
slipped

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Speaker 1: through the disintegrating wall and
ran down the length of the vault car, away from

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Speaker 1: the shock trooper. Where am

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Speaker 1: I? Where am I? Where am

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Speaker 1: I? She kept running. She made it two
full train cars before the erosion finally

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Speaker 1: caught up to her. The train ahead was
falling apart. The screaming man finally

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Speaker 1: fell silent as the erosion moved over
him, too. She waited until the very last

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Speaker 1: moment, until everything around her
was darkness, until everything was

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Speaker 1: dust. Then, she drifted forward.