143 - Existential Threat: Part 1
143 - Existential Threat: Part 1Update: 2024-12-02
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//WE ARE UNDER ATTACK
//DEATH STALKS THE NIGHT
//BUT THEY'RE TOO WEAK TO ACT
The Wrong Station presents the first half of this two-parter. Descend into the long night and face an ancestral menace in the far future. “EXISTENTIAL THREAT.”
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[Music]
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When they found Claid with news of the massacre, she was sitting at the edge of her sister's bed in the westernmost wing of the hospital, half asleep from the pin and mutter of the machines keeping best alive.
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A faint frown wrinkled her forehead.
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The old survivor's guilt.
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She was a big woman with sun-freckled skin and canvas sleeves rolled tight around her forearms.
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The old hospital chair was taught under her weight, but her sister had grown so frail she could have floated through the ceiling.
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Heavy boots rang in the hall outside.
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Claid lifted her head, bested his eyes flickered.
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Claid?
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I'm right here.
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She reached out, took her sister's cool fingers.
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They were holding hands like this when Brack appeared at the door.
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Claid was a small man, compact, professional.
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The mustache suited him.
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Like Claid, he was dressed in practical canvas with a zed gun heavy at his hip.
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Some instincted him was straining to salute, even though they didn't do things that way in the commune.
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There's something you gotta come and see.
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Claid glanced at Bessa, but her big sister just smiled.
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She had the saintly look of someone on the edge of heaven.
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"Go, Claid.
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The commune needs you."
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It was a clear night that red-harvest moon hung low against a star-burnt, purple sky, against black conifers.
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The huff whined softly as it carried them over rough ground.
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"You might want to prepare yourself," Brack told her.
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"It's bad.
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Trust me," Claid told him.
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"I'm prepared."
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"Lights blazed in the dark below.
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They were coming up on the laws and freehold, and from up here she could just make out the silhouettes of a few of her warrior society.
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"Goran and Ilam," she thought, by the shape of them.
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They were standing on either side of the open door, waving up at the huff.
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As Brack brought the vehicle down, Claid could tell from their faces he'd meant what he said about it being bad.
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"Goran's face was paper.
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There was a bit of vomit on his jacket.
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Ilam was white-lipped and nailed-down tight.
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In his sign of it, she asked them, swinging down from the running-board.
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"I'll quiet," Ilam said.
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"Stay sharp anyway."
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Claid hesitated by the door and put a hand on Goran's shoulder.
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"You okay?"
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He forced himself to nod.
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"It's bad in there, Claid."
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She squeezed and said nothing, then ducked under the lintel.
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"Inside laws and freehold, she found a slaughterhouse.
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The blood was bright and surreal in the heart lights.
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In some places it pooled a half-inch deep.
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Someone was lying across the kitchen in three separate pieces.
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It took her a few moments to recognize Archalawson."
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"Jesus," the word slipped out on its own.
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Her old school friend was staring up at the lights with an expression of surprise.
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His face was as red as Jupiter's.
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Nearby the baby lay dead as well.
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Claid forced herself to look.
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She told herself that, at least it had been quick.
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How did whatever it was get in?
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Glass door.
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Brax's voice was clipped and precise behind her.
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She crunched into the next room through broken glass and bits of bone and found the glass door yawning on the woodland night.
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She put one hand on the chrome grip of her zed and stepped forward to where Archa must have been standing when whatever it was came to the door and hid him.
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The woods were so black you never would have seen what was about to kill you until it was already exploding through the glass.
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Then the final seconds, everything disoriented blur, the red, the pain, the baby's screaming and Sasha.
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She shut her eyes.
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She knew Sasha too.
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Where's Sasha, Lawson?
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By way of answer, Brax stepped up beside her, one hand following a trail of blood which led out to the broken glass.
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He fell still with that one hand pointing into the black woods.
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You think she's still alive?
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Goren was back by the kitchen door.
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Claid didn't answer.
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She shouldered through the broken glass and out into night.
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There was more blood out there, puddled black in the torn turf.
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How many leaders can a person lose before they die?
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She asked Brax to, two and a half.
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She could almost hear the small man shrug behind her.
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They both knew.
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Less than this.
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It was past the end of first watch by the time they arrived back at commune.
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Lights were on over at Claid's house and the warrior society were gathered outside, fueling up on coffee substitute.
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Up on the hill, lights were blazing from the open double doors of the community center, and Saganayans' frozen breath caught the glow as she waited there.
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Her hands were clasped tight around old arms.
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Claid, her thin voice crackled as she raised one hand.
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Emergency meeting.
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Commediate lovely to join.
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Claid turned aside reluctantly.
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Get him ready, Brax.
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She meant the warrior society.
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I want to be back out there in 30.
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Yes, sir.
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Then he corrected himself.
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Yes, Claid.
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She clapped him on the shoulder.
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Then trudged up the hill.
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Just as long as it doesn't take too long, Sagan.
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She called up to the old woman.
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Worked to do before the end of second watch.
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Well, you know how these things go, Claid.
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Committee takes the time it needs.
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Sagan welcomed a big woman with an outstretched arm and followed her through the chipped blue doors.
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How are you, Claid?
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Was it bad out there?
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Real bad.
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But I'm good.
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Well, if you're ever not, you know, my door is open.
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Thanks, Sagan.
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But like I said, I am.
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Coffee?
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Is it real?
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What is this?
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Christmas?
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Of course not.
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Then I'll pass, thanks.
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Under harsh fluorescence, the meeting was an hour more old already, with reps from some two dozen interests and families present.
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Yaso from Riverwork had the floor, and he was staring up the ceiling, counting on his fingers as he spoke.
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Fifteen wears in that stretch of watershed.
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We're probably looking at ballpark, 180-person hours to get that production up and running some place else.
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"You won't have to," said Claid, taking an empty chair across from him.
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"We're going to kill the damn thing."
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Silence.
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Sagan Yaso quietly took a seat next to Claid.
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"Well, that brings us to the question, doesn't it?
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Gashra, the speaker, stepped smoothly into the pause.
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She was a put together woman, never without a tablet and clipboard.
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What is our course of action here?
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Who's taking point?"
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"War your society," said Claid.
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"It's an outside threat," our jurisdiction.
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"I don't think that's correct."
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Armin spoke up from across the room.
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He was a scrawny man, the rep from ECO.
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"Get a weathered face, and dressed in baggy cargos.
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We're looking at a large predator.
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That's our area."
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"Unless the creatures in adivism," said Claid.
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"Omolio from the lab jumped in, but that would be our area of expertise, using the same protocols ECO would use for an apex," Armin concluded.
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Everyone turned back to Claid for her response.
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It took her a moment.
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"Depending on the nature of the adivism," she managed at last.
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"Well, do we have evidence to suggest it's an unusual adivism," said Omolio, technological in any way.
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Claid couldn't bring herself to lie to committee.
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It was proof of claws and teeth and muscle, some scraps of black fur.
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That was all.
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So she pivoted.
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"Archael was in his dead," says the baby.
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Sash's unaccounted for her.
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Gashwer reversed the tablet in her hand.
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She had Claid's own initial report on screen, filed from the hub a half hour earlier.
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He said yourself that she was dead, Claid.
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"Lightly dead."
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But if there's a chance she made it, and not with the blood I'm seeing in these stills, Omolio's face turned gray, she swiped through a tablet of her own.
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"Look," Claid shoved her back her chair and stood.
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"This creature came into our community, slaughtered three of our own.
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Are we going to let it get away with that?"
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"Once more, an uncomfortable silence," Claid.
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"Arman's voice, softened.
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That kind of argument is exactly why they should fall on eco.
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Whatever we're dealing with here, it's an animal, not an antagonist.
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Whatever it's doing, it's doing because of its nature.
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Justice and vengeance, just aren't at play."
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Claid's jaw worked.
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But then, soft-touched her elbow surprised her.
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"Scanianza."
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"Why don't you tell us your plan, Claid?
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Then we'll hear what eco says and put it to a vote."
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Claid felt a rush of gratitude.
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The old woman's voice counted for a lot, even though her position didn't hold a vote.
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"Well, simple.
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We'll put together a posse, hunt the damn thing down, bring back Sasha's body for a decent burial, and turn its pelt into a rug for this hall.
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That brought a few chuckles, even Gash was mouth slanted.
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"Okay," the chairwoman said.
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"Arman, Omalayo, your turn.
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Omalayo yielded to Arman with a gesture.
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The scrawny man rose, produced a jet from his pocket, and waved a hand across its sensor to activate a light screen.
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"Same as any large predator," he said.
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Outside commune, we have a perimeter of signal fencing.
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Here, he traced out a circle of red pins.
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But several clicks passed that.
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We've got an outer layer of latent fencing.
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Just in case of situations like this, these blue pins maintained monthly so we know they're working.
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We flipped that outer fencing on as soon as the alarm came in.
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So we're highly confident the predators contained somewhere in this circle.
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"You mean you trapped it in here with us," said Claid.
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"Arman blinked."
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"No, we trapped it in this donut out here.
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We're all safe here in the donut hole."
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Scanianza chuckled.
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"My kind of metaphor."
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"So, tomorrow," Arman went on.
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We had out and saw a few more signal posts.
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Here, here, here, and here.
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Divide the circle into quadrants.
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And we had one more row fence posts.
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Here, each day we moved that final row a few more hundred meters clockwise until we've cleared the quadrant or corner of the predator.
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Rinsen repeat.
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And then, said Claid.
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"Arman shrugged."
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Then we've got it fenced in.
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We can either leave it there or relocate it, depending what we're dealing with.
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What's ecologically responsible?
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What about the other freeholds?
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The ones outside the donut hole.
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He shrugged.
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I'm already evacuating.
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Fire and rescues on it.
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That's why Ezra isn't here.
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Claid looked around in disbelief.
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And you're all fine with this idea.
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"Gashra shrugged."
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Seems reasonable to me.
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Everyone else?
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Nods.
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Murmors of Ascent.
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"Catch and release," Claid stood.
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"This thing's tasted human blood.
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You're just going to let it run loose somewhere?"
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Claid.
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Scotty Onza lowered her voice.
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"I think we'd all feel good to go out and get this thing that got the lozons.
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But that's not how we make decisions here.
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We go by what does the most good and the least harm.
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And what about community safety?
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The community is safe," said Gashra.
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"Not," Claid insisted, as long as that thing's out there.
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She gathered her coat, pushed her chair out of the way.
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"You all do what you like.
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But this is a mistake.
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I'm out."
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"Claid," said Arman.
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"But she was already halfway to the door.
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"Claid, come back," said Scotty Onza.
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"Let her go," said Gashra.
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"We've got more important things to think about before we break."
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A moment later, Claid was jogging down the hill, motioning to break for silence.
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"We have the troops and pull the gate," she muttered.
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"We're going on a monster hunt."
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Out under dark pines, and with the golden flicker of the commune's fence behind them, well behind them, the warrior society stepped silent through fallen needles,
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where else clung to the signs of murmuring hubs.
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They didn't say much, some because they were stocking prey.
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Others because the dark woods scared them, and others because they suspected in their hearts that Claid had lied to them, that this sorty went against the commune's will.
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At the front, Claid and Breck were muttering about strategy.
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Two groups, Claid was carrying a small jet, a map of the countryside hung ghostly on the air before her.
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I'll take my team up to Lawson and follow its tracks from there.
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You lead yours cross country this way, so we flush the monster out, it runs right into your guns, and then Breck's voice was a bear whisper,
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barbecued.
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"Will he co-have something to say?"
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Claid shrugged, and the non-answer widened Breck's eyes.
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It took him a moment to form his next question, which he did in the softest possible voice, barely moving his lips.
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Communion didn't sign off on this, did they, Claid?
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Claid said nothing.
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"When she didn't," Breck laughed softly and shook his head.
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"Well, sir, it's about time."
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Thanks.
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A small man pulled back, clicking his cheek, making broad gestures to the gloom.
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"House three and four," teams Gray, White, and Black, "Ami."
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The company divided.
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Two streams forked in the darkness, and Claid led her section up country toward the freehold, toward whatever waited in the woods.
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They reached Lawson freehold just after four pm.
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It was the middle of second watch, halfway through the 80-hour night, and the temperature was dropping close to zero.
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Their breath read them in fog.
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The small lights of their zeds and battery packs came hazy through the darkness.
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Lawson's lights were black by now.
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The windows dark.
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The bodies back on a slab at commune.
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Inside, the blood would be congealed by now, and lapped ad gently by the creatures of the night.
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This way, Claid led her three teams to the outbuildings, keeping as far from the house as possible.
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Too many of her people were green.
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She didn't want them spooked by all the blood.
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It was a light frost on the grass.
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Their boots crunched softly, and hubs one and two were barely louder than the midnight breeze.
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The trail was easy enough to pick up when they reached the freehold's edge.
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Black blood and churned earth, broken branches stark in the dim red beams of torches.
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Here and there, the occasional sparkle of broken glass.
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They followed into the lowering trees for about a click before the trail of blood ran out.
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By then, Ilma taken point, the bloody beam of her torch probed the forest floor.
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She was their best tracker.
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She'd come over from eco, and a sudden murmur of owls and the branches above didn't bother her.
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She led them deeper through the sighing woods.
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The time passed strangely.
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It seemed even less consistent than it always did during their planet's three-day nights.
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Maybe it was the adrenaline.
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The slow, bright chemical drip, nothing felt quite real, but everything felt alive.
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The zed was heavy in her hand, chrome curved with its soft grip of chrome and brown chagrin.
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It warmed her to the touch like the warmth of a human hand.
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The weight of a gun was soft ecstasy.
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It longed to be used.
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She longed to use it.
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When the moon reached its zenith, her cool light found them halfway up an escarpment over looking the freehold.
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The troops were resting, but their backs against the cold chrome of the hubs, and their breath like kettle steam as they spoke in low voices.
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Ilma and Clyde stood apart at the head of the line.
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I can already tell the tracks are leading up to that ridge.
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Ilma gestured along the escarpment, limestone cast, and we'll find caves up there and running water.
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If I was an apex predator, that's right hang out, Clyde grunted.
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There's something else up there, ruins.
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Even in the dark, Ilma's glance was sharp and direct.
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That settles it then, we're dealing with an adivism, not a normal predator.
00:20:03
Clyde glanced down to with the darkness of the freehold.
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Nothing normal does what we saw at Lawson.
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When they reached the heights, the moon had just begun to sink.
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Everyone was foot sore and cold, and now and then Clyde caught muttered snatches of rumour from the troopers behind.
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Everyone knew they were hunting an adivism by now, but what that meant was liquid in their minds.
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Now it had armor plates, now human intelligence.
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Now it was atom-powered.
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Someone had started calling it the bear, and after half an hour the name had stuck.
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She could smell their morale fading like a perfume on the air.
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They didn't want to catch the adivism anymore, but that only made her more desperate to catch it.
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How long since they'd seen a drop of blood?
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Lawson was a small woman.
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She only had so much to bleed.
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They wouldn't be finding her alive.
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It was a guarantee by now, and the weight of that knowledge fell heavy on Clyde's shoulders.
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She'd used the death.
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Someone she knew, someone who had been real to her.
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She felt sick with herself.
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Then Illum's gloved fist snapped up.
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Holt.
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Her whisper had an edge.
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She opened a jacked, its dim gold blur changed colors as she toggled through the view modes.
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There something appeared, one blooded, alive.
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It's something big.
00:21:34
Clyde turned to her troops.
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They were weary shadows in the gloom, but the nearness of danger squared them, sharpened them.
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Spread out.
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She controlled her voice, two by two, four finger on the left flank, hives on the center and right.
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Illum, you've got the far end.
00:21:51
At her order, they advanced down to the soft darkness of jackpines.
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The land here was scooped away into a shallow dish some several hundred meters long.
00:22:01
It was a ruin.
00:22:02
Under the thin soil and snarled roots lay a long buried edifice of steel.
00:22:08
Here and there, extrusions of imperishable chrome gushed up along the gnarled trees, twisted, liquid, like frozen water springs.
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Whatever they were, their mundane functions were stained with mystery by long immersion in the dark of time.
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Now and then an old witch-light would glimmer dimly from deep recesses in the chrome, and it was by these were lights that the staggered line crept slowly for the center of the bowl.
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Clyde's warrior society were far from the best soldiers in the void, but what doctrine or technology they lacked, they made up for just a little in their woodcraft.
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Plates earpiece crackled, ilum murmured in her ear.
00:22:53
"Right on top of it.
00:22:54
I can't see anything.
00:22:56
It's too dark."
00:22:57
By now the moon is set beyond the crater's rim.
00:23:01
"It's right at your end of the line, 15 meters out."
00:23:04
Clyde's heart jumped into her throat.
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"Copy.
00:23:08
Bring Goldie him around, now shaped ambush, emphalot and deflate."
00:23:13
"Copy, do you rise yet?"
00:23:15
Clyde.
00:23:17
Clyde, do you have a visual?"
00:23:20
Clyde was dumb.
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What she'd taken from mere darkness up ahead was the shadow under a bulge of steel, which arct up from the buried structure like a dragon's back.
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In the hollow underneath it, a few primeval lights still glowed.
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And while ilum muttered in Clyde's ear, one of those diodes rallied with the last, unexpected brilliance, casting its orange power across the lines of an ash in face.
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Sasha, she was as beautiful and small as Clyde remembered, but now her limbs were curled underneath her like a spider on the windowsill.
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She stared in silence.
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Ilum's anxious voice crackled again.
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And Clyde noticed something strange.
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Something was growing from the pale flesh beneath Sasha's torn clothes.
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Something like a tree root or set of tree roots.
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They were black and fleshy, but fird or feathered with a kind of silken down.
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And as she followed these extrusions into darkness, two of those fading diodes blinked.
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And she realized they weren't diodes after all.
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They were the black star dies of some great creature waiting in the darkness.
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Oh, then it boiled up like a black wave, and its teeth were like jet knives, and its noise was an all-most human sort of scream.
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She had the sense of huge bulk and black down and heavy claws, but the head was eerless, and the eyes, dead stars, and the movement more like that have a great snake or eel in anything ursine.
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It fell forward from the darkness, screaming, as she screamed back, and fired bolts of blazing gold from the zed gun suddenly in her hand.
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The light ripped through its body like smoke, casting no glow on the utter black fur.
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Then she threw herself aside as the rest of her section opened fire, and the golden light exploded through the tree trunks.
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Timber groaned, hand-length splinters hurtled through the air, and the trees veered, but the bear changed direction like a swarm of birds and poured straight through Illum's emphalod,
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smashing aside the hub like a child's wagon.
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Then it was gone.
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Silence fell, except for all the screaming, which played on like one instrument when all the rest of the orchestra has fallen mute.
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A few minutes later, more gunfire echoed softly over the next hill, and with it, the distant flash of golden light.
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This week's episode, "Existential Threat Part 1" was written by Alexander Sachston, performed by Anthony Batelon.
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