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you for listening. Chapter fifteen Hunted. Maybe it's time for us to speak

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about a different hidden. Okay,
who's next? Your pick? Well,

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we've already covered chroniclers, anomalies,
guides, and shifters. What are my

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options? You have the dream Wraiths, the Shadow Reavers, the Bloodborn,

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the Hunter, and the dragons.
There are dragons and you're just now telling

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me, Hastings, I thought we
were friends. I am sorry to disappoint

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you, but there are dragons no
more. They have gone extinct. Oh

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how, I'm not certain? Then
why do you list them among the hidden?

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Because they were once cinching creatures that
lived in the world with us,

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it feels wrong to exclude them.
Well, honestly, Hastings, I am

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extremely disappointed. You know you had
me pretty excited. To meet a dragon,

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and now you're telling me I can't. I am sorry to disappoint you.

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The dragons are extinct, and the
Hunter has never been visually confirmed.

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They are unique cases among the hidden
and are frequently excluded by chroniclers and guides,

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but you personally don't exclude them.
No, I wish to meet them

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one day. Meet them. You
said dragons are extinct. How can you

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possibly hope to meet one? They
are extinct as far as we know,

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but I don't know how we know
that. Maybe it is assume based on

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research. Maybe they are hidden among
the hidden. I have met every sension

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on our world except the dragons and
the Hunter. I have a fantasy of

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beating the odds and meeting both.
Oh that's kind of cute. I didn't

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realize you could have aspirations like that. Are you teasing me? No?

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I can understand your desire to find
something unique. I wasn't expecting it,

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but I really admire it. Thank
you, Emily. So what will you

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do if you find a dragon?
I will ask it the one question that

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terrifies me more than any other,
A question that terrifies you. Yes,

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what are they hiding from? If
they are really extinct, then there is

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nothing to fear. But if they
live, there is a reason for their

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absence. Jesus Hastings. You know, I don't mean to be unsupportive,

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but I hope you never find a
dragon. Sometimes I hope that as well.

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Okay, now that we've kind of
covered the dragon, what about the

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hunter? September slams the book he
was reading clothes with an exasperated sigh.

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The air in the restricted archives was
stale and reminded the guide of a tomb.

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For what seemed like the hundredth time
of the day, his thoughts wandered

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to Emily and Marcus, hoping that
they were okay, and wondering what he

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could do to protect her. He
had contemplated taking them to a property in

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a secluded part of Canada. They
had enough money to support Emily in Marcus

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and keep them safe there. Then
Hastings could monitor Emily and figure out if

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there was a way to keep her
safe. He shoved those thoughts aside and

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reached for another book. Hastings had
selected a stack of old journals that referenced

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anomalies. Most of the journal contents
had nothing to do with anomalies, but

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occasionally there was a note regarding them. I really would like you to stop

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doing that. What slamming the books
around as if they were enemies needing to

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be subdued. I didn't damage the
books. They're fine. September. I

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know you mentioned that I should quit
inquiring, But are you okay? You

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seem annoyed. I'm annoyed. I'm
exhausted. My head is getting foggy from

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reading through all these texts, and
neither of us are finding anything at all.

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The journals are turning into a jumbled
mess in my head. I have

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never seen you struggle this much with
research before. This is not like you.

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Is there anything I can do to
help? I don't know. I

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can't figure it out. I'm at
a complete loss. Maybe you should take

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a break, leave the chronicling to
the chronicler. No, maybe, why

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don't you go to the hospital and
see if there is someone there that could

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use a guide. The hospital is
full of guides just like me, waiting

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for chroniclers just like you, to
finish doing their research. They have the

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hospital more than covered. If I
went there, I would be accomplishing even

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less than I am here. Oh, look at this, this is interesting?

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What is it? What did you
find? Right here, there's a

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reference to the fact that anomalies can
only see blue lines. Okay, we

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know that isn't true because of you
know who and their ability to see other

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lines. We already know that,
But isn't it nice to get confirmation that

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the archives, even the restricted ones, appear to be lacking important information.

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Sure, Hastings, I was simply
attempting to make you feel better by showing

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you marks of progress that we have
made. I know, and thank you.

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You're welcome. Maybe you're right I
should take a break. I am

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not a chronicler, and I'm entitled
to be overwhelmed by all of this research.

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I said as much. I'm a
guide, yep, a completely incapable

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guide, one that has absolutely no
clue what to do with Emily. Have

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you considered that she cannot be guided
like others? Maybe you should stop trying

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so hard to guide her. You
know what, You're a genius. I

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appreciate the compliment, but I am
not saying that you are. Look,

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I've been spending all my energy focusing
on Emily, and she is chaos.

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Maybe I can't guide her. We
talked about it before, but I never

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really thought about it after it feels
like I can guide her, but maybe

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I can't. Okay, but I
can guide you September. September rose from

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the table and smiled down at Hastings. Guide inhaled deeply and then closed his

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eyes. September, what are you
trying to do? Shut up? Let

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me focus. September kept his eyes
closed and stretched his arms out to the

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sides. He began walking down the
aisle, touching every book as he moved

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along. After several minutes, the
guide returned with eyes wide and a smile

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to match. He set three heavy
texts down on the table in front of

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Hastings. The whole reason guides are
partnered with chroniclers is because we've worked so

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congruently better than any of the other
sentients, hidden or human. I should

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have been focusing on guiding your studies
rather than finding a way to protect Emily.

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September. This is fantastic. What
are these books? I have no

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clue, but something tells me they're
important. My intuition is screaming that there's

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something that we need from each one. Strange, what's that? These texts

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are not about anomalies, No,
they are not about anomalies. Not reading

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chronicler, Dean, I apologize,
I did not see you enter. The

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books are about the ancient hidden before
we were hidden September. You'll dismissed,

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Hastings. I should like to see
you in my office. Agents. Natalie

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White and Victor Brown sat in their
two bedroom New ar York City apartment,

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eating a meal of Chinese takeout.
The apartment reflected their minimalist lifestyle, with

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only the barest of necessities scattered throughout
the living space. The duo had neither

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friends, family, nor employment in
the city. They were currently stationed here

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and shared the apartment as roommates.
They maintained a daily routine of chores and

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a nightly ritual of exercise and takeout
food. The lifestyle was in no way

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glorious, but the pair knew their
commitment was to a higher cause, the

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protection of humanity from the inhuman scourge. Natalie's cell phone rang. She checked

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the caller ID and read the word
restricted across the screen. This is Natalie,

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Natalie, this is the operator.
Is Victim with you? Yes?

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Are you in a secure location?
Yes? Please place the mobile on speaker

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mode. Done good evening, Victor
Arbator. I am activating both of you.

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For another job. Are you properly
functional? We are? What's the

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job? We have had two agents
go dark? Which agents agents du Bois

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and Blanc. They were following up
on a lead Montana and have gone silent.

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We believe that they have been eliminated
and advise you to proceed with extreme

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care. From who is the target? There are several at this time,

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an anomaly named Emily Swanson and are
Harbinger Marcus Baker. Emily is a Caucasian

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female in her early twenties, a
bit later for an anomaly, but we

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suspect some oddities with her. She
has a pixie style haircut and a Chicago

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accent. Marcus Baker is a Latino
male with a scar on his left hand,

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shoulder length hair, and a Chicago
accent. They both are likely to

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stick out and ruar Montana. I'm
dropping their files in the secure channel.

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Would you like us to recover them
or eliminate them? Recover if possible,

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If not possible, eliminate them.
Do not take risks. We've already lost

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several agents and we do not wish
to take any more casualties on our end.

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Well, that should be easy enough. There are two other targets,

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the chronicler, Hastings and the Guide
September. You're joking, right, I've

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been waiting for a stab at those
two. This is not a game,

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Victor. Those two are dangerous.
Natalie is correct. Those two are very

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dangerous, and for some reason they
have decided to collect an anomaly instead of

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eliminating her. We do not know
their intentions our September and Hastings still collection

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status or can they be eliminated?
Eliminate them on site? No more risks,

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fan fucking testing, Victor. Enough, there's more, Please continue.

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Operator. There's a detective in Chicago
that is linked to the group, Detective

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George Bullard of the Chicago Police Department. He has been asking some rather invasive

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questions. Find out what he knows, then eliminate him. Consider it done.

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There are also two close friends to
the anomaly, both Sam Wilson and

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Umber, lying reside in Chicago.
They have not been confirmed harbingers, but

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just in case, bring them in
if possible. If not, eliminate them.

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Oh, that's a busy schedule.
We will take care of it.

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Flights have been booked for first thing
tomorrow morning. You will fly into Chicago's

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O'Hare and first investigate Bullard, then
Lang and Wilson. From there you will

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continue on to Montana. Do you
have all the resources required to complete these

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tasks? Yes? Operator, goodbye
and good luck, Agents White and Brown.

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Following the directions Marcus gave, Emily
pulled her vehicle into a sketchy looking

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motel. Marcus had known where to
go, but not where they were going.

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Sometimes his visions were cryptic like that. Once the car was parked,

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Emily gave Marcus a once over.
He was bloodied in several places and held

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his chest as if it hurt to
breathe. He had wrapped his t shirt

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over his wounded leg and tied a
poor attempt at a knot. Overall,

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he looked awful. Emily didn't know
how to use her ispet for most things,

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but she knew how to restore health
to someone. Early on, she

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had a dream about an anomaly restoring
health to a sickly landlord. Later,

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she used this ability to heal Marcus
after their battle with Harp. The fight

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with Harp was hardly that. If
the Contra agent had wanted them dead,

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she would have killed them. Nonetheless, Emily had learned to use this one

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ability, and she used it well. After the fight with Harp, Emily

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and Marcus had practiced restoring and drawing
the life force from Marcus. He had

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complained about the process, but relented, knowing that there may be a time

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when it could save someone's life.
Emily was thankful for the practice. She

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reached over and placed her hand on
Marcus's shoulder. She found it easier to

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move the life force from her will
to target if they were touching. She

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could do it without touching, but
this was no time to put out extra

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effort. She focused her will and
pushed the life force into him. She

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could immediately see some of the color
come back into his face. After she

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was finished, she leaned back in
her seat and took a deep breath.

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She felt a little less alive.
She didn't feel exhausted or trained, but

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she felt as if the world around
her had lost a little of its color.

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She opened her car door and heard
Marcus do the same. Uh,

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what do you think you're doing?
Going inside with you? Like? Hell?

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You are? You look like shit? You just healed me. I

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could feel it. Yeah, so
it's not like I healed you back to

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full health. This isn't a video
game, Emily. No, your leg

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is still fucked up and you look
like you've been hit by a small truck.

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I'm fine. No, you're trying
to be macho, and honestly it's

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annoying. Look we're at a motel. There's likely going to be people around.

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Nothing bad is going to happen to
me here. Why don't you put

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your window down a little bit and
then you can just talk to me while

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I check out the room. Fine, I'll be right back in and out,

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in and out of where Jesus Christ. Nope, just cricket. Sorry

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to disappoint cricket. Now is not
really a good time. You say that

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a lot. Well, I mean
it this time, Emily. Dreams don't

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really work like that. I'm literally
asleep right now. I can't just force

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myself back away. Well, try
to be quiet. Then, what's going

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on? Nothing important? Hey,
that's rude. I'll explain later. So

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what are we doing? Where are
we going? We are checking out this

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motel room. And before you ask
why, I'm not sure. Marcus said

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he had a vision and there's something
I'm gonna find here. Ah, so

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that's why you left the range?
Uh? No, we were attacked by

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something attacked by what. I'm not
sure some kind of monster. Hmmm.

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I might be able to help if
you tell me more. I do know

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a lot about your history, at
least since you're tap all right, one

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second, I think this is the
room. Was that door unlocked? Yeah?

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People were way more trusting back in
your time. No, they're not.

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This is strange. But let's see
what's inside? Oh my god,

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Holly, hell, are you okay? Do you need me in there?

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I'm okay. What do you see? There's blood, lots of blood.

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There's still luggage and belongings inside.
It feels recent. Look at the night

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stands. There's a gun and some
cash there. So whatever happened to her,

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it wasn't for the money. Wait
where are you going? You should

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check out that luggage, right,
see if the thing you're looking for is

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in there. I'm going to check
the bathroom first. I want to make

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sure no one else is here,
all right, Jesus frist Is this what

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you were supposed to find? I
don't know. I don't think so.

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Could you close the door please?
I don't want to look at this anymore?

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Yeah, me neither. Wait,
what what is it? That body

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there? Who is it? I
don't. I don't know, but I

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think I know what attacked you.
I'm closing this now. Were you attacked

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by a grocery delivery person? Yes? How did you know? That doesn't

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matter? I know what's hunting you? Hunting me? Yes, hunting.

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It's a shifter. Why is it
hunting me? I'm not sure? You

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know. It would be nice if
you could give me more information on some

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of the shit. It's kind of
important. Hey, blame yourself. You're

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the one that has to tell me
the things so that I could even possibly

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relay them back to you. Why
don't you tell me what you do know

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while I search through this luggage?
Well? Uh oh, I know it's

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probably working alone. Yeah, All
accounts of shifter engagement always show them working

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solo. I think it's how they
like to hunt. It looks like those

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people in there were Contra agents,
So I'd say it's safe to say that

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Shifter isn't working with the Contra.
Yeah, probably not. Contra doesn't really

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like the hidden anyway. I doubt
they'd employ one of us. So the

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Shifter's side with the chroniclers and guides
the ones that kill anomalies. So,

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from what I understand, Shifters don't
side with anyone. They operate on their

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own agenda. They have their own
personal code that they stick to. It's

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different from shifter shifter, but they
treat that code like it's a personal religion.

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I've heard some of this before,
but what does it mean to you?

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Well, for example, one shifter
might decide that they were created to

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protect a specific forest from being destroyed, so they might haunt that forest as

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a weird creature that murders people who
try to start fires. Another shifter might

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decide that it wants to collect rare
gems, so it travels the world,

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finding and hiding different gems until it
feels the collection is complete. Another shifter

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might decide that it needs to run
a country, so it slaughters its way

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up a branch of government until it
gains control. It's different for all of

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them, so there's no way to
know why this one is hunting me.

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Maybe it hunts anomalies. Maybe you
weren't supposed to be on that ranch.

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Maybe it just really hates former baristas. There could be a bunch of reasons.

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I'm sorry, but I don't know. Do you at least know how

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to kill it? There's a couple
of ways, but none of them are

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very easy. Nothing ever is If
you can completely burn it to ash,

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that'll do it. They're not super
sensitive to fire, though, so you'll

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have to find a way to restrain
the creature while it burns. Doesn't seem

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likely. Or you could rip it
to pieces, you know, like put

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it in a wood chipper or something, really tear it apart so it can't

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put itself together again. Gory but
logical. I guess you could shoot it

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into space logan, come on,
really, okay, okay, for real,

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though, there's a part of every
shifter that controls the body. It's

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kind of like a brain. Just
not okay, It's a small patch of

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fungus looking stuff. It spiderwebs out
through the body of the shifter, like

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some kind of nervous system or something. Anyway, the core part of that

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fungus is hidden in the shifter's body
somewhere they can't move it. But it

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isn't a different position for each shifter. So if you can cut the shifter

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open, find that portion of its
insides, and remove it from the rest

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of its body, then the shifter
will die. Damn, you weren't kidding.

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It's not easy. Yeah, I
tried to tell you. You're honestly

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much better off just trying to get
away and hide. Maybe the shifter will

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stop hunting you. Yeah. Maybe. Oh what's that? It's a briefcase

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with files in it, and there's
a file in here about me. These

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were definitely contray agents. Is that
what we're looking for? Hold on,

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Emily, this second sheet of paper, Emily. Emily lifted her gaze from

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the open folder and began to shout
a response to Marcus when she noticed the

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lines had spawned from every direction.
An ESPET event was happening, and it

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felt big. She should have known
an event would happen. Marcus knew about

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this place from a vision. He
knew that she would find something there,

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and Emily should have realized much earlier
that Marcus only had visions of Ispet events.

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Of course, something would happen here. Panicked, she threw the folder

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back into the briefcase and latched the
case closed. She ran over to the

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night stand and grabbed the handgun,
the cash, and the kharkeys, then

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shoved everything into her jacket's pocket.
The earth began to shake, and a

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large crash sounded from the parking lotter
outside, Marcus could feel the air shift

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in his vision. From earlier,
he had seen a treasure chest surrounded by

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quicksand Emily stood next to the treasure
chest and traded a toy house made of

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popsicle sticks for something out of the
chest. A wolf had charged forward and

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jumped directly into the quicksand the vision
had left a residual feeling. After he

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woke, he knew where they needed
to go, but not where they were

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going or what would happen once they
arrived. Now that the ISPET event had

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started, Marcus was terrified that he
had made the wrong choice. The vision

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didn't seem extravagant, but the energy
in the air reminded him of the ISPT

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event that took place at the police
station. This one was just as dangerous

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as that had been. He called
for Emily several times, but she wasn't

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coming. He could hear her talking
to herself in the room, but couldn't

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make out what she was saying.
With an agitated grunt, he pulled the

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door handle and leaned against the door
to push it open. That's when something

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the size of a bear with wings
slammed in the driver's side of the car

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and rolled him over twice. Emily
saw Marcus and the car roll over and

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land upside down. The shifter was
back and had taken a new form.

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The creature looked like a hideous,
fur covered moth with bare arms and no

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head. It bounced off the car
after impact and then flapped its wings,

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flying directly toward her. Emily could
see the maroon line to the creature.

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She could also see the blue lines
connected to the people in the motel,

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the lines connected the plants outside,
and the one attached to the small critters

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that littered the area. She slammed
the door just as the monster arrived.

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The door splintered inward, but didn't
break enough for the creature to gain entry.

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Emily drew the weapon from her pocket, but hesitated. She had no

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inclination where to shoot. She traced
the maroon line, pinpointing it to the

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specific section of the shifter, maybe
as where the focus was hidden. Even

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if it was, she had no
idea how to get to it, and

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she was not a good enough marchman
to hit that small of a target.

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The creature slammed into the door a
second time, then reached its arm arm

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through to swipe around one more attempt
like that, and the door would give.

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Emily backed away from the entrance and
looked around the room, searching for

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anything she could use to defend herself. Nothing. Blue lines danced along the

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floor. The lines only attached to
inanimate objects. If her isfat was about

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to do something to them, she
had an idea. The shifter pushed a

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final time and entered the motel room. Emily could now see clearly where the

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maroon line pinpointed the lower right side
of the creature, just above where a

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hip would be if the creature were
human. A wavering maroon line turned into

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a steady, attached marker. Emily
raised the gun and took aim, but

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didn't fire. The creatures stepped a
second step into the room and began to

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crouch into a position that would allow
it to pounce on her. Its wings

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folded in on the creature's back,
and the creature had to pull the bear

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like arms closer to its chest.
Just as the creature was about to leap

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forward, Emily pulled the blue lines
on the floor, and the flooring fell

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away into the sub floor. The
earth shook again. The shifter lost its

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balance and sank into the flooring.
Then Emily pulled the trigger. She may

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have not been a good marksman,
but she didn't need to be. She

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was an anomaly, and she had
the ability to send the bullet down a

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maroon ispit line. The bullet followed
her orders and struck home. The creature

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didn't cry out, but it hunched
over in what seemed like pain. The

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lack of any noise from the shifter
was unnerving to Emily. When something felt

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paint, it made noise. This
felt unnatural. Emily took aim again,

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but waited for the creature to stop
hunching so that she could get a clear

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shot. The opportunity never came.
The earth shook again and the flooring gave

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away into a pit. The shifter
fell into the ground, with floorboards follow

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Emily could see the entire building shake. She ran to the side of the

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motel room and edged her way around
the hole in the floor. She tried

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to steal a glance at the creature
below, but could see nothing. She

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didn't hang around to investigate. Instead, she turned and ran out of the

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motel. With the briefcase in one
hand and the gun in the other.

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Emily hurried into the parking lot and
found Marcus crawling out of the open window

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of the car. His head was
bleeding. He must have hit it when

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the car flipped over. She put
the gun in her pocket and pulled the

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contra agent's car keys out. She
beaped the unlocked button and quickly found the

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rental that the keys belonged to.
The Earth was shaking more furiously now.

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Emily helped Marcus to his feet and
placed his arm over her shoulder. She

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helped him limp across the parking lot
and to the rental car. He assured

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her he could get in on his
own, so she released him and rushed

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to the driver's side of the vehicle. As the engine ro to life,

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Emily looked back at the motel room
and saw the shifter as it crawled out

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of the floor of the room.
It had taken its baseless form again.

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Then the motel collapsed in on itself
as it sank into a pit. A

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sinkhole had formed under the motel and
had swallowed the building and all its occupants

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whole. Emily watched in horror as
the maroon line, along with over a

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dozen blue lines, sank into the
earth. She contained her urge to vomit

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and shifted the vehicle from park to
reverse. It wasn't until she was several

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miles down the road that she allowed
herself to cry. Hastings is voiced by

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Adam Culbertson. Emily Swanson is voiced
by Tsha Zang. September is voiced by

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Richard Collins. Chronicler Dean is voiced
by Seamus Rodriguez. Detective George Bullard is

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voiced by Anthony Kinney. Agent Natalie
is voiced by Sarah Callahan. Contra operator

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is voiced by Helen Edgar. Victor
is voiced by t Alexander Saxton. Marcus

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Baker is voiced by Nico Rodriguez.
Cricket is voiced by Josh Allen and narrated

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by Michael cole is fet Archives was
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