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Vermin!

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I knew it.

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I fucking knew it. Excuse

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me? I knew you'd come to me, come

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to the Rift. I knew you were okay. Ain't

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nobody stopping us. Glad

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you were expecting me. I... look,

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I don't know how long I've got. I think

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everyone is asleep. That, or

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somebody is doing an excellent job of following

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me really quietly. You

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never know, do you? Sorry. It's

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not very helpful really, is it? You alright though,

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yeah? Surprisingly

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so. Especially after what happened in that room.

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Oh yeah, that prick, Jackson.

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Man, I want to hit that cultist bastard

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so bad. I... yeah, I

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think it's a bit too late for that man. Nya locked him in there,

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didn't she? Good. How

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are you anyway, Ro?

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You sound...

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I

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know, I just... I don't

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know. It feels... deeper

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than that. There's... there's something

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else there. Well, look

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man, if you really think there is, then

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don't say anything but keep an eye out for things. And

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if something really starts to bug you, then

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just ask Claire.

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She won't bite your head off, will she? No

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doubt you're just looking into things too much. Don't

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lose track of what you're there for though. Focus

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on getting us out of this mess, alright?

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I hate to say it, but there's

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a lot riding on this. Ah,

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fuck.

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I know. I know. Say,

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look, if I needed to get out of here, like,

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quickly, reckon I could use this

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rift? I mean, it looks pretty

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dark wherever it goes, but

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I don't know. Could work. Yeah,

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no. Seriously, don't.

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I've had a lot of time to myself here in this nothingness,

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and in between being shit-scared after every

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time I remember that there's something lurking behind

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all the rifts I can see.

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I think I figured a few things out. You

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see, when I met Claire just before she

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stepped through a rift into the world where A-12

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still exists, when she dropped off

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our recordings with Ryan,

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she told me about how each of the rifts

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kinda...sung, or

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at least made some sort of distinctive sound.

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And I remember her saying that their sound is

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different depending on where it leads to. So,

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if it's the alternative version of our world where it's

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freezing cold and A-12 doesn't exist,

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then it makes one sound. If it's

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our world, another, and,

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you know, then... The one that's...avoid

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like Wasteland.

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Makes a completely different one. And,

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let me guess, that's the sound I

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can hear right now. Bingo. I'm

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pretty certain I figured out each sound, and

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the one you're looking at leads to the place where all

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these freaky ass creatures come from. Wait.

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Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait, what? Why

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the fuck am I just outside it then? Chill,

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chill. There's nothing there and clearly the

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Order, or whatever they're bloody called, aren't

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worried about anything coming through. Otherwise,

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they wouldn't have this place all open and shit,

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would they?

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God, I wish you hadn't told

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me that. Hey, you asked! Yeah,

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unfortunately.

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St. Alphais School, eh? Bet

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that was a bitch for the kids here to remember how to spell.

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I didn't barely say it. Now,

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remember children, the sanctitas

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in Scientia!

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What the fuck does that mean? I have

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no idea. I don't even know if I'm pronouncing it correctly.

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Like, sanctity in something or

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other. I guess I'm surprised they kept

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the statue and everything here. I thought they wanted

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away with the Old World. Maybe they're

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saving it for a new world museum.

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Who knows, man? This

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is mad, Roman. Like, how

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did we end up here? One day we're heading

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off on an off-grid camping trip. The next

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we're here, me talking

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to a hole in the wall. You

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being in that hole.

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Like, what the fuck? The

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world's a scary place, bro. I've

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not even felt like I've had time to grieve.

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You know, like, actually think about

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all the people who we've lost. I

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know we found Claire and your kids

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and her, but there are just so many more.

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We've not mentioned in months that

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aunties, uncles, cousins, colleagues, people

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you'd only talk to once in a blue moon.

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And the worst bit is, we don't even know

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if they're actually gone. And that's

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the part I really

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can't get to grips with. If

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they were dead, I could process that, or

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at least try to. But we don't

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know, do we? They

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could literally be hiding out somewhere, just

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a few miles away. How? Some of them could even

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be in here. There's

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just that many people. But,

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we just...

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Don't know, we just... Woah, woah. It's

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alright, okay? It's alright.

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We're not to blame for any of this. I

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never said we were! I know, I

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know.

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But hear me out. When I thought

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I'd lost Claire and the kids forever, I

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never thought I'd come out of the other side of it. Never

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thought I'd see any point to life ever again.

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I absolutely couldn't bear not knowing what had happened

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to them. I didn't fully tell you at the time, although

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no doubt you could see it in everything I did.

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But I very nearly gave up, completely in A7. But

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I made it through. Despite everything

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going on,

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I made it through. But...

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You've got Claire now. And

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your kids, you got them. Remember

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when you and I were sat in the car in that blistering

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coal with no fuel? You

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said to me, you said, let's

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house hop. And I laughed at you. I

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thought it was a ridiculous idea, but then

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despite my smirk,

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you just looked at me with so much ambition

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in your eyes. You wanted this

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idea to work. You wanted it all

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to work. Because despite it all,

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somehow, you, of all people,

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hadn't given up. Living in literally

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your worst nightmare, and you were still

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determined. I respected that.

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That's when I knew. That's when I knew

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I could make it through. Even if the worst happened

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and I lost you. I could remember that hope

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in your eyes. That's what kept me going.

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No matter what, it will.

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Roman. Roman,

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I... Mate, it's all right. You

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don't have to say anything equally to sock me back. Consider

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this a freebie.

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Oh, shit. That's

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my cue to leave. Onward, brother. Onward.

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Love you, man. Yeah, yeah, whatever.

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Love you too, you big weirdo.

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