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"There was an outbreak in the location of your team’s new headquarters It’s unclear exactly why he did what he did, but he chose to re He was still inside the building when it was sterilized"

"By ‘sterilized,’ do you by any chancemy lips into a thin line, I looked back to the computer The After the End Times forums were open in front of me like some sort of aso familiar that it was like I’d never left It didn’t nize even a quarter of theraine and let Mahir take forum duty for me What mattered was that they were there I scrolled to the bottom of the screen, and closed my eyes for a moment from sheer relief

The es to e of my core syste ers, opened my eyes, moved the mouse to the appropriate icon, and clicked

The foru down, barely aware that I was crying According to the ade, only two users with es were currently online One was ory

"Sending up a flare," I said I opened a private eand tapped out, ALARIC ARE YOU THERE? NEED TO CHAT ASAP, DO NOT HAVE MUCH TIME

I hit enter

"Georgia--"

"Just give it a second"

A e appeared in my inbox less than fifteen seconds later HOW DID YOU GET THIS LOG-IN? THIS IS NOT FUNNY LOG OFF RIGHT NOW OR I WILL CONTACT THE AUTHORITIES

I grinned "Oh, good He’s pissed"

"That’s good?"

"Yeah, that’s good If he’s pissed, he’ll want to knoho I am so he can have someone to be pissed at That , BUFFY GAVE ME THIS LOG-IN THE DAY WE WENT LIVE ALARIC, IT’S ME IF YOU DON’T BELIEVE ME, OPEN A CHAT I CAN PROVE IT

Gregory looked dubiously at oal here is to make him really mad"

"Kind of, yes Alaric thinks better when he’s uess hi from a flawed model and I knew it: Not only had Alaric been alive while I wasn’t, giving hi off memories extracted from a dead woht about myself--half "ment where the reactions of others were concerned And that didn’tI had