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Sos couldn’t Ronnie slouched along the reservoir’s edge until he ca station, and slipped inside There was a heavy lid, almost like a h to deal with Crowbars were simple tools, and all you needed to operate the rasp, like a file being dragged across concrete Ronnie kept pushing until the opening was almost a foot across Then he stepped onto the ri fro it over the water, Ronnie opened the seal and shook out the bag’s white, crystalline contents They vanished into the darkness So nowhere, serving no purpose But in the journey toward their eventual hoed

Ronnie took a deep breath and stepped off the edge of the access hatch, and pluone

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