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I hit the ground withup I abruptly stilled Tolak was besideif I was okay, but all I continued to do was stare into the distance for a ripped a hold of Tolak and pointing I said, "I need you to get me over there!"

Tolak looked past lanced back to me and I repeated, "Get me there with this suitcase if you hope to see any of your people have a chance"

"I go" He said definitively

"No, I' with you!" I protested

Tolak took my face into his hands and forcefully said, "You e! I flip the lever and coo!!!"

Before I could protest further Tolak pulled the suitcase frole headed for the distant volcano

"Tolak!!!"

He didn't stop, in fact he was already out of view Feeling like ot toback

Crying I turned in the direction of the village and obeyed his final wish I don't kno I made it there, but when I did I o into the water

As usual they were resistant to any cause of action, but then the ground quaked beneath their feet even as the top of the volcano that had steamed away tranquilly for years on end tore away to let off a solid coluainst the cloudy do of this inner world

When that collision of ash with the orange glowing clouds occurred everything went bad The clouds crackled electrically and began to dissipate until I actually saw overlying rock layers, but worst of all the sky turned dark as the constant orange glow of the clouds di landscape was the distant glow of the horizon

What had I done? I'd killed everyone!

The villagers took to the boats in a screa mass of panicked anxiety and pushed off into the troubled waters of the sheltered harbor, while I alone just stood there on the beach beholding the work ofto do How could I have been so wrong?

I heard a whining sound and then the sputter of an engine I heard the engine conk off for good at the same moment I saw the aircraft