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Speaker 1: [rock music]

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Speaker 1: Mortal

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Speaker 1: Steel: Episode nine.

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Speaker 1: [footsteps] Dr. Marie Singer waited

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Speaker 1: by the door. Paced by the door,
anyway. Was she going to come?

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Speaker 1: Or maybe she would turn them in. What
would happen to her?

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Speaker 1: Maybe she could convince them
Francesca and Ursula were not involved.

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Speaker 1: Ursula was kneeling at the foot of
her bed, head bowed in silent prayer. Marie had

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Speaker 1: kept a similar habit once. There
wasn't a better time to pray for help.

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Speaker 1: No, the Lord helped those who helped
themselves. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: Francesca was examining a light
fixture. Oh, wait. She had it

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Speaker 1: dismantled.

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Speaker 2: Francesca, stop it. Put that back.

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Speaker 1: The woman ripped something electronic
free from the lighting fixture.

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Speaker 3: It was bugged. Video and audio by the
looks of it.

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Speaker 2: And now they know you know. Did you
think about that?

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Speaker 1: Francesca looked down at the thing in
her hand, dumbfounded.

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Speaker 3: Oh. I could put it back.

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Speaker 2: Just... [sighs]

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Speaker 1: She reached toward her face with
claw-like hands gripping the air.

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Speaker 2: Don't touch anything else. Okay?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay. Chill out.

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Speaker 1: Blessedly, their dorm room door slid
open and Kelly Jon Fore slipped

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Speaker 1: cautiously into the room with eyes
wide. She was dressed in all black.

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Speaker 2: Why are you wearing that?

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Speaker 3: I was sneaking.

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Speaker 1: Marie pressed her palms to her face
and let out a silent scream.

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Speaker 1: Francesca held out the severed camera
toward Kelly.

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Speaker 2: Who's watching us?

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Speaker 4: I am.

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Speaker 1: Kelly Jon Fore visibly withered,
gasping like a fish out of water.

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Speaker 1: This was a little more direct than
she'd hoped for, but trying to keep any of these

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Speaker 1: people covert was clearly a lost
cause. Still, she felt bad for

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Speaker 1: dragging the young mother into this.
Hopefully, they had not angered this creature.

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Speaker 2: Are you the intercom?

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Speaker 4: Yes, and before you ask, no, you're
not prisoners here. You may leave at any time

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Speaker 4: through the way you entered.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, right.

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Speaker 1: If they were going for antagonistic,
Marie may as well try to get some information

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Speaker 1: out of it.

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Speaker 2: Why are you stealing children?

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Speaker 4: I have never stolen a child. They
were donated.

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Speaker 1: [gasps] Kelly Jon Fore snapped out of
her stupor.

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Speaker 3: Liar. You took him.

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Speaker 4: You knew the price of admission. As
did your parents, and their parents before them.

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Speaker 4: Survival comes at a cost. If you do
not wish to pay it, you may leave.

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Speaker 1: Kelly screamed at the intercom.

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Speaker 3: [screams]

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Speaker 1: Slamming her fist into the speaker
until it bled. It was a blind, mindless rage.

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Speaker 1: Marie tried to gently pull her away,
but the woman spun on her, something feral in

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Speaker 1: her eyes. She stood tense, ready to
fight, ready to kill, but the

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Speaker 1: speaker could not be killed. The rage
bled out of Kelly and she sunk to the floor,

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Speaker 1: sobbing.

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Speaker 3: [cries] What did you do to him?

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Speaker 3: What did you do to my baby?

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Speaker 1: Marie couldn't take it anymore, the
fire in her chest, the rage stoked by this

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Speaker 1: woman's suffering. It demanded
violence, and it demanded it now.

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Speaker 2: Get up.

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Speaker 1: Kelly looked up at her with
tear-filled eyes.

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Speaker 2: Get your husband and your baby. We're
leaving.

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Speaker 1: Marie glanced at the other sisters,
but they were clearly coming with her. Not even

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Speaker 1: Francesca offered a word of rebuke.
They rose and left the room and paced down the

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Speaker 1: hall at a speed just below blind
panic. Marie could feel the eyes of cameras on
her,

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Speaker 1: could feel whatever time they had to
escape ticking down like the grains of an

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Speaker 1: hourglass. When it ran out, there
would be no escape. The

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Speaker 1: intercom, whatever it was, it would
not tolerate traitors for long.

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Speaker 1: It created a horrible pressure, like
standing in the jaws of a closing mouth.

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Speaker 1: Kelly Jon Fore ran fingers through
her hair, muttering to herself.

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Speaker 3: What am I doing?

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Speaker 2: You're making the right choice. We
can protect you out there

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Speaker 1: blatant falsehood. Mostly. When
they'd fled Last Respite, they'd been certain
they

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Speaker 1: could not return for fear of
political fallout. Now Marie would gladly
welcome

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Speaker 1: a prison cell if one was on offer.
Anything was better than this place.

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Speaker 1: And the moment they were safe, she
was going to make a call. Cyborg number

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Speaker 1: four was gonna tear this place apart.

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Speaker 1: That was when the lights went out.

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Speaker 1: [dramatic music]

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Speaker 3: [gasps]

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Speaker 4: Important to stay in your rooms due
to the toxic gas.

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Speaker 1: Oh, hell.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't the soft whisping of gas
she heard in the darkness as the other people

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Speaker 1: reached out for her, grasping for
comfort and safety she could not provide.

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Speaker 1: It was the sound of servos, metal
feet clacking

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Speaker 1: on concrete floor.

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Speaker 4: I can't afford to waste resources.
Please accompany Jelly John 3. I don't think his

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Speaker 4: motor control is sufficient to
guarantee your safety if he must use force.

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Speaker 1: Dim red emergency lights lit up a
path along the floor down the hallway.

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Speaker 1: A humanoid figure covered in rags
waited for them where the trail of lights
stopped.

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Speaker 1: It stepped toward them in slow, jerky
movements.

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Speaker 3: Excuse me.

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Speaker 3: [gasps]

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Speaker 1: Part 11. Sins of Knowledge.

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Speaker 1: Ethan climbed up the incline to meet
the bikers. He tried to ignore the

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Speaker 1: pulsing veins running through the
earth and the small squid-like creature swimming

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Speaker 1: through them, following him. The lead
scary boy,

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Speaker 1: Miranda, wrinkled the half of her
face Ethan could still see and pinched her

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Speaker 1: nose.

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Speaker 3: Ugh, you smell like sewer.

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Speaker 1: Sewers haven't been cleaned in a long
time. Ethan pointed a finger gun at

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Speaker 1: Miranda and winked. You're just
trying to get out of a hug. She recoiled from

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Speaker 1: him. She was more alarmed than when
he'd threatened to turn their bodies into gifts.

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Speaker 1: What kind of world was this?

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Speaker 3: Ugh, you wouldn't.

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Speaker 1: Ethan sat back on the motorcycle. The
name Eddie was carved below the

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Speaker 1: handlebars. No, I wouldn't hug you.
But if I did,

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Speaker 1: it would be lethal. Whoa. There was
that

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Speaker 1: admiration again, after he'd
threatened to hug them to death. His second

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Speaker 1: mind was loving this heroic dialogue,
but it served no purpose. There was

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Speaker 1: a boy out there who needed saving,
and if the Stalker told any truths, the nuns

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Speaker 1: might not be running into the arms of
safety at New Hope. No more words.

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Speaker 1: Time to use a little ammunition. Now
how do we find New Hope?

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Speaker 1: Miranda nodded towards something on
the horizon.

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Speaker 3: You gotta get past those.

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Speaker 1: Ethan zoomed in on the skyline where
she watched. Helicopter drones buzzed about

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Speaker 1: over the rooftops by the dozen. His
eyes stretched to zoom even further.

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Speaker 1: They had machine guns on them.

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Speaker 3: Your eye is stretching out of your
head.

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Speaker 3: It's creepy.

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Speaker 1: Ethan swung his head and his
telescoping eye toward Miranda. Heh,

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Speaker 1: you're one to talk. The bone shield
could only hide half of her smile.

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Speaker 1: That flicker of a smile held some
hope for peace. All right, let's

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Speaker 1: go.

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Speaker 3: What's the plan?

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Speaker 1: Win. [motorcycle revs]

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Speaker 3: Works for me.

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Speaker 3: [motorcycle revs]

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Speaker 3: [crow caws] [motorcycle revs]

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Speaker 1: Ethan took a hard left to stay with
the riders. The drone swarm behind them was a

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Speaker 1: humming, flying cloud of black death.
There were more than just the gunner drones.

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Speaker 1: There were also the smaller, faster
drones with adhesive on their undersides and no

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Speaker 1: gun. It hadn't been clear what they
were for until three of them stuck to the back

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Speaker 1: of a scary boy and detonated. The
resulting pink mist painted a dangerous

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Speaker 1: picture for anyone who fell behind.

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Speaker 1: At least the gunner drones were not
of sufficient caliber to do more than ruin his

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Speaker 1: outfit. A squadron of drones appeared
at the end of the street. Bright yellow muzzle

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Speaker 1: flashes and a pattering popping
sound. One of the scary boys was torn to shreds
and

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Speaker 1: flipped over his careening motorcycle
and smashed into a ruined car.

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Speaker 1: [screams] Ethan lowered his shotgun
arm and fired. [shotgun fires] But at

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Speaker 1: this distance, the pellets did little
more than knock the drones around. The things

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Speaker 1: were so light and small that only a
perfect shot would actually shatter them. This

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Speaker 1: is no good. They could neither outrun
nor outmaneuver the gunners. If those sticky

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Speaker 1: explosive ones caught them, well,
even Ethan would feel those. He pulled up

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Speaker 1: alongside Miranda as they drove under
the gunner's squadron and took a hard right.

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Speaker 1: The drone zipped around to follow
them, peppering with more small arms fire.

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Speaker 1: [drone firing] Where do we go?

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Speaker 3: We're circling back. Your new buddy
should be set up.

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Speaker 1: He wanted to ask what she meant, but
they were forced to separate to dodge obstacles

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Speaker 1: in the road. [tires screeching] This
was the second time Ethan had been harassed by

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Speaker 1: flying opponents. It was growing
tiresome. It made a straightforward

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Speaker 1: slugfest with an opponent like the
spine eater almost appealing in retrospect.

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Speaker 1: Almost. [gun firing] Their small
mounted machine guns pointed directly at
Miranda.

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Speaker 1: She tried to angle her body so that
the bone side would block some of the fire. But

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Speaker 1: this, this is the end for her.
Unless, unless

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Speaker 1: Ethan did something stupid. He looked
down at the handlebars. No time to reload the

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Speaker 1: shotgun. Then he released the
handlebars and stood up on the seat of the
motorcycle.

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Speaker 1: [gun firing] Balancing, he drew the
messenger and shot one of the drones cleanly out

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Speaker 1: of the air. [gun firing] The other
one began shooting at Miranda. Overclock.

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Speaker 1: [machine clicking] Time slowed,
creating a shocking feeling of vertigo.

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Speaker 1: Ethan ignored the human weakness and
let his accelerometers do the balancing. He

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Speaker 1: watched a bullet sink into Miranda's
body in gruesome slow motion.

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Speaker 1: Ethan's second mind flagged a new
threat on his HUD with a yellow warning symbol.

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Speaker 1: Oh, what now? A cockroach the size of
a dog sailed in slow

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Speaker 1: motion through the air. The human
head on its back watched Ethan

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Speaker 1: serenely as it flew, its mouth open
in a little O shape.

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Speaker 1: Disturbing as it was, it wasn't on a
collision path with him. Release

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Speaker 1: overclock. [machine clicking] The
corpse nest collided with the drone, taking it
out

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Speaker 1: of the air and shattering its frame
against the wall. Then the creature, still

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Speaker 1: living, because apparently even
demons realized that cockroaches were
unkillable,

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Speaker 1: leapt toward the cloud of explosive
drones. The simple machines covered it, then

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Speaker 1: detonated, [explosion] taking out a
large number of their own in the process.

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Speaker 1: [motorcycles revving] Miranda's
motorcycle swerved, then slowed. She fell from
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Speaker 1: bike at a still lethal speed, rolling
and scraping against the ground.

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Speaker 1: [tires screeching] Without even
thinking, Ethan dismounted and ran to her. A
wide

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Speaker 1: smear of blood ran from her mouth
down her neck. She looked up at him with one

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Speaker 3: Leave me.

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Speaker 1: No. Ethan got an arm under her and
dragged her through a blown-out door into a

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Speaker 1: building, moving in the direction the
corpse nest had come from. He waited just

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Speaker 1: inside the doorway. A gunner drone
zipped in to follow them. Ethan snatched it out

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Speaker 1: of the air and smashed it against the
wall. [drone crashing] He pulled the gun from

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Speaker 1: the broken device and handed it to
Miranda, pointing at the simple firing
mechanism.

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Speaker 1: Here. She crawled toward the wall and
leaned against it. Blood pattered the ground

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Speaker 1: beneath her.

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Speaker 3: I still hate you.

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Speaker 1: Get in line. Miranda snorted a
humorless laugh.

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Speaker 3: The others?

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Speaker 1: A series of explosions outside
answered her question in the worst possible way.

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Speaker 1: [explosions] The sound of motorcycles
died abruptly.

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Speaker 3: Go. Take those bastards down at the
source. My mom was New Hope.

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Speaker 3: She killed my dad to get me and my
brother out. That place broke her, holy man.

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Speaker 1: She met his eyes with her own. An old
rage simmered there.

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Speaker 3: It needs breaking.

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Speaker 1: Ethan nodded once. No heroics this
time. You gonna be all right?

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Speaker 3: I'll live. There's enough juice in me
to heal.

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Speaker 1: Ethan searched for a way to the
rooftop, and his eyes found the stairwell door.
But

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Speaker 1: he paused before leaving. I'm, uh,
sorry about Eddie.

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Speaker 1: There was a sharp intake of breath
behind him.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, he was an asshole.

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Speaker 1: Still.

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Speaker 1: Then he pushed open the stairwell
door and took the stairs four at a time. He
might

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endoskeleton wasn't fractured.

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debris and bleeding broken bodies. If

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Speaker 1: anything remained of the drones,
Ethan's sensors couldn't pick them up. A
creature

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Speaker 1: made of two dozen legs and half as
many torsos stood before him. Its

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Speaker 1: skin was a mix of different tones,
like a patchwork quilt of people.

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Speaker 1: It lowered two oversized legs with a
fleshy scoop at the end. A corpse nest

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Speaker 1: crawled into the scoop, and the
creature catapulted it into the air. [body
crashing]

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Speaker 1: It sailed over the rooftops and
landed two streets over. A mouth opened on the
large

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couldn't and did not want to

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Speaker 1: see. The way is

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Speaker 1: all the human bodies. A swarm of
smaller corpse nests were already pulling them

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Speaker 1: He watched as tiny squid-like things
forced their way out of the cockroach

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Speaker 1: creatures and into the body parts.
Making them wriggle and twitch with new life.

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Speaker 1: Ethan asked his second mind if it was
certain it would not repress his memories.

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Speaker 1: The many-legged abomination lowered
on one side and then rose again.

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Speaker 1: [body thudding] A bow? The back
holds.

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Speaker 1: Ethan nodded sharply. Any idea where
the entrance is? The mine

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Speaker 1: is found tunnels. Too many metal
people.

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Speaker 1: Then the abomination bowed again. You
may ride me.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 1: All right. Ethan put his one intact
foot on one of the knees

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Speaker 1: and hoisted himself onto the
creature's back. [body scuttling] Two sets of
arms

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Speaker 1: unfolded from sagging flaps and
grasped him around the waist. A brief stab of
terror

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Speaker 1: hit him. Would it eat him? [creature
grunting] But no, the hands

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Speaker 1: held him firmly but gently in place
as the abomination walked to the edge of the

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Speaker 1: rooftop [body whooshing] and leapt
the gap to the next building. [body thudding]

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it moved from building top to building top.

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Speaker 1: [body whooshing] He closed his eyes
and tried very hard to forget about what was

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Speaker 1: actually happening. [body whooshing]
It was almost kind of fun.

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Speaker 1: [gentle music]

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Speaker 1: Kelly, Dr. Singer, and Ursula held
hands, sitting in the corner of the dark room.

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Speaker 1: Fran herself was feeling the crease
of the only door for irregularities of any kind.

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Speaker 1: There had to be some way out of here.
[door banging]

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Speaker 1: Why? The thought shocked her. She was
so used to there always

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Speaker 1: being a solution. The chance that
there was no solution, was no way

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Speaker 1: out, that, that truly terrified her.
She kicked the door and

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Speaker 1: screamed. [Francesca screaming]

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Speaker 3: Francesca?

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Speaker 1: She screamed again. [Francesca
screaming] Wordless fury. [Francesca panting]
There

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Speaker 1: was a scratching sound from the other
side of the room. [claw scraping] All of them

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Speaker 1: spun to face it. Apparently, there
was another door. [claw scraping] And whatever

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There was a low

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Speaker 1: growl muffled by the steel door.
[creature growling] Francesca slumped to the
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Speaker 1: and cradled herself. [body scuffling]
She felt the overwhelm coming, felt the panic

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Speaker 1: rising. Trapped. Doomed. Helpless.
Then Ursula spoke,

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Speaker 1: soft, smooth, and perfectly calm.

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Speaker 5: Why are you named Kelly John 4? I'm,
I'm the fourth child

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Speaker 5: of Kelly and John.

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Speaker 1: That little shred of information was
enough to steer Fran away from the panic

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Speaker 1: attack, a mind tugged away from the
brink by the reins of curiosity.

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Speaker 3: Then what is your name?

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Speaker 5: We choose names after our fourth
child.

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Speaker 1: Francesca narrowed her eyes.

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Speaker 3: That indexing system is terrible.
[scoffs] Francesca.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so what were her existing kids
named then? To be determined?

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Speaker 1: Placeholder? Wait. Dots connected in
her

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Speaker 1: mind.

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Speaker 3: That robot was Kelly John 3.

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Speaker 1: She saw Kelly John 4's head tilt in
the darkness.

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Speaker 5: What robot?

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Speaker 1: And then Francesca's panic attack
began in earnest. The room spun and she held

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Speaker 1: her knees, trying to shut the world
out, trying to shut her thoughts out, trying

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Speaker 1: and failing.

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Speaker 3: Not me. Not me. Not me. Not me. Not
me.

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Speaker 3: [upbeat music]

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platform and dropped the remaining 15 feet into

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Speaker 1: darkness. [body thudding] Then he
sprung from

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Speaker 1: the squat and switched to infrared.
[electronic whirring] Remains of corpse nests

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Speaker 1: littered the floor. A robotic foe,
barely visible by the light of its warm torso
and

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Speaker 1: head, lunged for him. Ethan blew the
legs off it with his shotgun arm, then kicked

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Speaker 1: its head as it fell forward. [metal
clanking] The robot's upper body flipped

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Speaker 1: backwards and clattered against the
wall. [body thudding] [laughs] He stepped

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Speaker 1: farther into the tunnel, choked with
robotic enemies. Ethan battered one to the

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Speaker 1: floor with the barrel of his right
arm, spun, then kicked the other in the chest so

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Speaker 1: hard that its limbs fell off. [metal
clanking] He moved between them, tearing them

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Speaker 1: apart like toys. [metal crunching] It
felt good to destroy, to destroy mindless

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Speaker 1: weapons with ease. [weapon firing] In
the blink of an eye, he'd torn apart five

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Speaker 1: robots. The remaining 22 he could see
fell down. Fell

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Speaker 1: down to one knee, heads bowed.

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Speaker 1: What the hell? A chorus of whispers
ran through the kneeling

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Speaker 1: robots

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Speaker 1: The one he'd blown the legs off
crawled toward him and placed a crude, rusting
hand

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Speaker 1: on Ethan's foot, stroking it
reverently. He kicked the hand away.

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Speaker 1: Attack me. The robots didn't move.
Ethan pushed one over with his

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Speaker 1: fireplace poker foot.

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Speaker 1: It flailed helplessly on the floor,
eventually spinning its torso around and pushing

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Speaker 1: itself back up into a kneeling
position, head bowed. The battle

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Speaker 1: rage slowly drained from him. His
second mind replaced twenty-two red

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Speaker 1: warning symbols with blinking
question marks instead. Don't ask me.

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Speaker 1: The robots were dressed in clothes.
Some of the clothes were so torn and filthy that

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Speaker 1: they were little more than yellow
strips of cloth hanging from their metal bodies.

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Speaker 1: There was a story behind that that
Ethan really wanted to avoid. He knew he should

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Speaker 1: be glad that his enemies had
surrendered, but a part of him longed

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Speaker 1: for the simplicity of bad guys that
didn't talk back, except to curse him before

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Speaker 1: eating lead. Creatures he could
destroy without remorse. Ethan

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Speaker 1: disengaged combat mode and pinched
the bridge of his nose.

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Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 1: What's your deal?

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Speaker 1: [rock music]

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Speaker 1: Miranda waited impatiently for her
wounds to close. If she got up now, she'd bleed

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Speaker 1: all over the place. Her superhuman
healing wouldn't matter if she didn't have any

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Speaker 1: blood left. It would be dark soon.
Best to lay low until morning,

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Speaker 1: lest she become a midnight snack for
something that was a little more demon than she

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Speaker 1: was.

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Speaker 1: It was hard to believe that Dave,
Rex, and the others were dead now.

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Speaker 1: Eddie was dead. That stung. He was a
horrible person,

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Speaker 1: but he was her brother.

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Speaker 1: Something moved in the twilight.
Miranda sat up, pointing the makeshift gun at
the

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Speaker 1: shadows at the far end of the room. A
creature like a human starfish

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Speaker 1: stepped out of the darkness. It
switched easily between its two pairs of legs as
it

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Speaker 1: approached. One of the corpse
walkers. Better than an

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Speaker 1: uncontrolled demon, certainly, but
not exactly good company. Miranda

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Speaker 1: frowned. This one had not removed the
genitals from its source

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Speaker 1: bodies.

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Speaker 1: The creature sat down a few feet away
from her. It reached one eerily long arm

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Speaker 1: toward her.

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Speaker 1: What?

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Speaker 1: There was something shiny in its open
hand. A, a can.

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Speaker 1: The abomination bumped the can gently
against her, insistent. She took it.

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Speaker 1: It's beer? Miranda looked over at the
creature,

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Speaker 1: trying to ignore the genitals. It
pulled another can from somewhere unseen,

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Speaker 1: popped the top, then tipped it over a
hole in its torso. She looked down at the

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Speaker 1: can in her own hand and shrugged.

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Speaker 1: Cheers. [creature growling]