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Speaker 1: After what seems like another hour, with dusk now well

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Speaker 1: Unable to bear it any longer, you push open the

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Speaker 1: a gray, muddy floor dotted with puddles of stagnant water,

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Speaker 1: surrounded by four walls of rotten wood covered in green,

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Speaker 1: are utter horror. The door slams shut before you can

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Speaker 1: small shard of light coming in through a broken window

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Speaker 1: take a small step back, your eyes widening as something

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Speaker 1: begins to emerge from out of the shadows. Oh God,

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Speaker 1: you cry to yourself, as it steps out, one grotesquely

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Speaker 1: twist and bend in incomprehensible ways as it moves towards

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Speaker 1: you with unstinting purpose. Then you see its eyeless face

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Speaker 1: and the contorted, drooling opening that appears like a rip

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Speaker 1: in the skin right across it, and catch a glimpse

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Speaker 1: of the many sharp, oddly metallic, serrated things within it.

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Speaker 1: In terror, you run back to the door, screaming for help,

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Speaker 1: the thing is getting closer. You stumble back, turning for

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Speaker 1: walls until your nails rip from your fingers, and, in hysterics,

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Speaker 1: trip on something in the darkness, sending you sprawling to

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Speaker 1: the floor. Only then do you feel how damp your

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Speaker 1: clothes have become, as you recoil at the fetid stench

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Speaker 1: of your own waist. And still the thing comes, edging,

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Speaker 1: its twitching limbs ever closer, as you push your back

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Speaker 1: but it is too strong. You feel one of its

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Speaker 1: limbs snaking up against your back, but before you can move,

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Speaker 1: it is already tearing the skin, and you can only

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Speaker 1: watch in horror, screaming in agony as it pushes through,

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Speaker 1: bursting out of your chest in an explosion of blood

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Speaker 1: and bone. You try feebly to grab hold of it

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Speaker 1: as it wriggles about frantically. Then something grips your leg.

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Speaker 1: You scream as it bites down, taking a chunk out

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Speaker 1: of your shin, and it floods with blood. You cough

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Speaker 1: and splirt as you taste iron in your mouth. A

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Speaker 1: second bite chomps down through your pelvits. Hear the bone

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Speaker 1: crunching through the pain, and see for a moment the

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Speaker 1: gaping hole under the pale light from outside. You scream

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Speaker 1: again in agony, gritting your teeth through the pain, pathetically

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Speaker 1: cupping at what you can with your hands, feeling only

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Speaker 1: a warm stickiness where your hip used to be, And

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Speaker 1: now its face is right in front of you, that

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Speaker 1: hideous tear of flesh widening to reveal its teeth from inside.

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Speaker 1: The edges of your vision begin to blur, the light

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Speaker 1: fading fast as that mouth stretches ever wider, and which

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Speaker 1: yet to feel its smothering darkness, and the soft, wet

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