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Tick Goddamn Tock

I wiped my wet sleeve over my face and raised my chin My plan was still sound I’d find Tess, and then I wouldn’t rest until she could reverse tio back to before the Flash and savea vehicle for the journey Step two: fuel Step three: directions

I had a le-inedonly the road before rief and destroy anything that got in the way of my mission

Vehicle

Fuel

Directions

Any vehicle near this toould be sunk, stuck, or swept away I needed to get out of the path of that flood I needed highlands I turned toward the foothills

I ran

Holdingh sheer will

I ran until I splashed out of the edge of the receding flood I headed upland toward the line of rocky hills A road snaked through thes tripped I lurched forward; only one hand to catch me I face-planted onto a shelf of stone

Tick-tock I scrambled back up Spat blood Blinders on

I ran

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Day 389 AF?

"Who let the dogs out? WHO? WHO? WHO?"

Even over the freezing winds and drizzle, I heard a song blaring fro--what had the mental-ward docs called it?--an auditory hallucination Likely I hadn’t slept in days Hadn’t stopped running

Get to Tess Get to Tess Get to Tess

Though I was filled with purpose, eneration was agonizingly slow--rown just a couple inches, and the wound inExhaustion threatened to consume me

But my mind was all-powerful My mind told my body not to stop, and it obeyed The ribbon was a talis

Aric had said I possessed untapped potential I drew on anything--everything--I had I re for her daughter, never resting My search for Tess would be just as relentless