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Kaelynn was helpless.Her last few weeks of life had made that an almost-daily reality. It didn't matter how long and how successfully she had fought to control her own destiny—this new world had decided to trap her in a tank.Now she knew the battle taking place outside—Ryan had warned her of what they discovered and where they were. But while her friends fought for their lives, she was trapped in a tank.This one was even smaller than the one she'd used to cross the desert, so small that she had to roll…-
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Blake soothed his anger at the helm of the Bright Hawk. He might not know its operation half as well as Galena yet, though he was learning quickly. But he needed to do something to keep himself busy. Otherwise he would keep replaying that trip to the ruins in his head, until the frustration boiled back over into anger against his friends.They were right, obviously they'd been right. Maybe if they'd all been armed and trained to fight, they could've won against odds like those. Maybe if they knew their…
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Before her, the metal crate thrashed and rocked on its wheels. Agent Elise Avery continued pushing as though she couldn’t hear it, her steps smooth and confident. There were no others in the deserted corridor, and nothing to slow her down other than the occasional crack in the concrete. Thick cables had been tucked away along one side, broken only with the occasional makeshift light strip bolted to the wall. The further she got the more dilapidated things became, with whole sections of steel bulkhead…-
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“This can’t exist.” Eric slung his satchel in front of him, flipping it open. He lifted out a tablet and started scrolling through its contents with one hand. “It defies everything we understand about archeology. This is late Roman construction, on an island they never knew existed. If there were colonies in Greenland, we would’ve known. Their ships never could have crossed the ocean.”Jacob made his way over to one of the pillars, inspecting the writing. They were unfamiliar shapes, like sticks…
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Jacob had never gone to the Gatecrashers before. He knew the way only in the sense he remembered the way Jackie and Harley always went, when they had a mission to go on.Getting there without being noticed involved a great deal of planning—separating their group into several smaller factions, each of which would carry some of their gear, crossing Imperium at different times until they eventually joined up just outside the building.The Gatecrasher building was one of the bulkiest, ugliest structures in…
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In the beginning, Harlequin’s infiltration plan worked perfectly.The Irongate guards let her past without resistance, looking more than a little confused as she went by. But they didn’t try to stop her, or even question what she was doing there.The same held true for the house steward, who seemed either like her boss in the house, or the one who she told what to do. Maybe both?After giving her contrived story of the sudden change of plans and feeling unwell, she was escorted to the lady’s chambers…-
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Kaelynn swam endless circles around her prison. She searched the rock in every corner, checked every seal, and ran her hooves along every scratch and deformation in the carving. Finding her way out wouldn't be that different to getting into one of the places her group liked to film: even an attentive and responsible government body could only leave so much to defend a place. Static defenses were a monument to the hubris of man.But the one who made these defenses wasn't a man by either definition. It seemed…
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Dear Journal,Because I couldn’t keep my stupid mouth on topic last menight, I’m back to finish talking about my trip. I’ll try to be less of a worthless pony tonight. I’m sure I’ll have plenty to talk about tomorrow. I’ll bring my laptop and record the whole thing, so it’ll all be saved. It’s so much easier to record things than to type them up later.That’s assuming I come back. Cloudy Skies is terrified for me. She thinks it’s a trap, she’s sure I shouldn’t go. Moriah thinks so…-
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Years later... Avery knew she wasn't supposed to be here. There were a lot of places she wasn't supposed to go. Military sections of Starfall, with their distinctive psionic resonance. Classrooms of anyone past their first year certifications. More than 100 meters from Starfall, where the Repel field grew weak enough for wild Pokémon to get close and potentially threaten her. Her mother's office when she was hard at work. For a growing Mew, Avery was very good at learning all the rules.…-
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Dear Journal,So maybe I overestimated my ability to recover overnight. There’s that saying that it always hurts worse on the second day? That saying is true. Particularly when the pain medications wear off. They could’ve given me more, but I don’t want any. We don’t really know what the long-term consequences might be for these bodies. We aren’t human, and in some ways we don’t even seem to be from Earth. Pretending that we are seems particularly dangerous when it comes to medicine. I would be…
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