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<h1>The Floor Is Water</h1>
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<p>
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Jack goes ahead, walking across to the staircase tower. He reaches the
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first platform.<br />
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<span class="quote speech">Clear.</span><br />
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Michelle follows him as he starts walking downstairs. She reaches the
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platform.<br />
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<span class="quote speech">Clear.</span>
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<br />
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James follows them and also says <span class="quote speech">clear</span>
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as he reaches the platform. Annie hesitates.<br />
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Jack looks up at her from the next platform down and says:
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<span class="quote speech">Come on Annie, you got this, it's gonna
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hold.</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">I'm scared.</span><br />
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James turns around and stomps on the walkway. It makes a dull ringing
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sound and rust and debris rain down into the depths.<br />
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He says: <span class="quote speech">Nah this thing's fiiiine.
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You can come over.</span><br />
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He goes back to the top of the tower and Annie cautiously walks
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across.<br />
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Jack continues downwards and the others follow, making sure to never
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be on the same staircase with each other and passing warnings back:<br />
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<span class="quote speech">Careful, missing steps here.</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">James, missing steps.</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">Annie, missing steps.</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">Okay.</span>
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</p>
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<p>
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The staircase tower stands on top of a large, slightly elevated concrete
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platform roughly taking up a third of the ravine's width. One side is
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connected to the rock face, the other side ends in a vertical edge that
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goes down to the outflow of the power plant. A very rusty railing
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<span class="comment">begrenzt</span> that side, though it looks like
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it might fall apart if you look at it wrong. The entire platform is
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flooded by water rushing out of a broken door in the rock face.
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It spreads out over the platform, and flows off the edge.<br />
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Michelle says to Jack: <span class="quote speech">I don't think
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we'll get in this way.</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">Got another idea?</span><br />
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They walk down the last staircase and onto the platform.<br />
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<span class="quote speech">No, but you're gonna get swept
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away.</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">We just need to get past the door, the water
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inside will be moving a lot slower.</span><br />
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Michelle and Annie decide to stay back, Jack and James approach the door
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from the side. The two pick up a large rock and throw
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<span class="comment">huck?</span>
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it right in
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front of the door. It starts rolling immediately and, within seconds,
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tumbles off the edge.<br />
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Jack calls out to the girls:
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<span class="quote speech">Looks like you were right.</span><br />
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Michelle asks: <span class="quote speech">Can you say that again?</span>
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<br />
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He says <span class="quote speech">no</span>, failing to
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suppress a smile.<br />
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James notices an access hatch a few meters up on the other side of
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the door.<br />
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<span class="quote speech">Look, up there, that thing seems
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almost reachable.</span>
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</p>
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<p>
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The guys back away from the door and make their way over to the railing
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at the edge of the platform. From there, they try to wade to the other
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side. James goes ahead, taking a few cautious steps forward before the
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current gets too strong. He attempts to hold on to the desolate railing
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It breaks instantly, leaving hime with a roughly 20 centimeter long
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piece of rust in his hand. Jack pulls him back from the strongest part
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of the current.<br />
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<span class="quote speech">Welp, I guess that's that. Not gonna
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try this again.</span><br />
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They return to the girls and they all decide to head back up.
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</p>
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<p class="comment">
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Missing paragraph
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</p>
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<p>
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Jack turns the key and the gate starts to move up, scrathcing and
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squeeking as it does, revealing a bunch of crates. About half-way
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up, it gets stuck, making a buzzing noise. He lets go of the key and
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the buzzing stops. They duck under the gate and find themselves in
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a warehouse much larger than the gate and windows in the tunnel
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would lead to assume.<br />
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Jack says: <span class="quote speech">Now that, ladies and gentlemen,
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is what I call an adequate stockpile of spare parts.</span><br />
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He walks up to a huge crate and wipes the dust off the label:
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<span class="quote non-speech">Turbine C, replacement 2</span>.
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</p>
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<p class="comment">
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exploring the warehouse, they find a forklift and a railroad in the back
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</p>
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