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I slipped down over the torn carcass of the ht me here to land in the ater with a sged my way toward the shore

I had no wish to be lasered to death To say subsurface relations were hostile was putting it e that despite the strength of our nuetry of equipment that I now only had ht now I just wanted to get away fro close to the beach I started to run for it The surf crashing about

My foot landed in a hole halfway up the beach and I went tu beyond that of the surf and looking up I saw trees falling every which way as bolts of laser intensity crisscrossed back and forth across the upper plain of the beach that I was upon

With a screa down path of a severed beheround shook and I fairly bounced up to e tree with the sand beneath le then for all I orth The pack onit aside when in ns of disturbance taking place around s and tried to listen for anything out of place By all accounts it see out of place

Slowly reason took hold again I could not afford to be out of place or I would stand out even more than I already did and

To survive I needed to beco down to the dah a puddle of daer held the briefcase

Looking back over oing back to get the case Shaking ers up to my face to wipe across the exposed skin of my neck and arms Whatever the case had contained it was beyond the reach of sanity right now and as e anyway