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Groans and shouts are filtering through the comm, but I switch it off and slide it off my wrist, letting it drop to the floor.
00:00:24
Time to make a decision.
I close my eyes and take the cables in my hand, all seven of them. Then, I release them randomly, one by one, until I’m holding on to the last one.
I open my eyes, staring at the cable that will determine everything.
“Please be the one,” I whisper, before lifting the pliers.
00:00:09
Goodbye Bastian, Han, Jim, Jordan, Toby, Will.
I love you.
I stare death into the face as I take a deep breath, squeeze my hand and cut the cable.
00:00:00
Day ?
If death is pain, thenthis is death.
There is nothing but pain.
White-hot agony.
I drift in and out of pain, craving the periods of unconsciousness in between.
When I’m awake, I can’t think. No dreams.
Just pain.
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