They are close. Flashlights kicking in and failing, darkness strobing deeper and darker as every moment progresses. Sound is muffled and suffocating. The two teams separated by a hundred yards, but might as well be separated by continents. At first the two teams kept contact with morse over their flashlights. But very quickly the darkness overwhelmed the lights… snuffed them out mid transmission.
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“Bradley, they are gone. Tighten it up.”
“Did you see that last, Daniels?”
“Yeah, I’ve been wondering that myself… sort of a shuffling? Keep our six clear, and stay super close to the group. This darkness is like a soup. I don’t like it one bit.”
“Yes sir.”
“And keep checking your weapon, clear it and re-clear it. Double check it. I’ve got a bad feeling they’ll all be jammed by the time we need them. I expect it’ll get crazier the further down we go.”
“Yes sir.”
And then he slipped ahead into the darkness and was gone. Quietly ahead Bradley heard Daniels say, “Flip to thermo everyone. I don’t like this at all.
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Terrence had to keep them close. Otherwise he’d be lost forever in this swirling darkness. But the darkness was starting to make some sense to the boy. It wasn’t a lack of vision, but more so a feeling that he understood. It was as if we was walking into a world that understood the pain in his soul. He wasn’t alone in this feeling, because it was everywhere around him now. This oppressive sense of loss was now outside as well as inside.
Terrence scrabbled as quietly as he could across boulders and under outcroppings as the path wiggled, writhed and struggled its way forward. And as he stumbled and sprawled across the floor he was suddenly staring at his very first important Spelling Bee. He’d walk to the competition. 18 miles in order to be there. Dad had had a last minute double and couldn’t make it.
“Defenestrated. D-E-F-E-N… could you use the word in a sentence again?”
“Yes, the Russian political candidate was defenstrated by opponents to his party, he was taken to the hospital and passed away later that day.”
“Ok, D-E-F-E-N-E-S-T-R-A-T-E-D. Defenstrated.”
“That is correct.”
“We have our winner of the greater Chicago area 2018 spelling bee.”
“Can we get a photo with you, your teachers and your family?…”
As Terrence continued to equalize to the feeling in the cave, a few thoughts came to him quickly and out of nowhere. He internalized the thoughts and continued moving forward, watching the men in the military uniforms from just far enough away. Always staying concealed and beyond the scope of their ears and eyes. And Terrence was surprised to find that his eyes, his ears were picking up things that he wasn’t able to hear before.
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AnarkickPanda |
“There’s 20 pages of this black oil crap here. Ok I totally get it. They def don’t want us to read the rest. | 1:52 am | |
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Anon-Op1 |
“But that is the only part of this log I want access to. The rest can sod-off for all I care. | 1:52 am | |
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AnarkickPanda |
“We’ve been diggin all night dood. We’ve found unclassified digitz no1 has ever seen b4. | 1:53 am | |
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Anon-Op1 |
“ssHure. we r awesome. except we suck. 2b clear, this is what I want. I want this redaction and I want it now. drop this doc in chan and put a bounty on it. call in all our favz now, from skriptkiddies to our full blooded anonz. get this doc 4 me. | 1:54 am | |
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AnarkickPanda |
“right now we radiate we are so hot having this on our drives. we need to cut & run. going after this doc seems all kinds of stupid. the black vans man. the black vans.” | 1:53 am | |
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Anon-Op1 |
“then ill put the call out in chan. dont bother. oh, and dont bothr comin back panda” | 1:55 am | |
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AnarkickPanda |
“damn the torpedoes – got it. im on it.” | 1:55 am |
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