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<h1>Erosion</h1>
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<p>
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<span class="quote speech">Morning Michelle!</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">Ugh.</span><br />
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She feels dizzy and her body is filled with a burning sensation.
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She takes a step out of her preservation chamber and sits down on the
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floor in front of it, putting her arms over her knees to rest her head.
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<br />
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<span class="quote speech">I'm gonna ... need a moment.</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">Water?</span><br />
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She lifts her head and Jack hands her a glass. After taking a couple sips,
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she sets it down, unsure whether it helps or makes it worse, and rests
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her head again.<br />
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<span class="quote speech">Just let me sit here for a moment.</span><br />
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After a while, she lifts her head again.<br />
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<span class="quote speech">So what year is it? ... and what's our
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mission?</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">Twenty-one-oh-six. We don't have a
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mission, uplink's dead.</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">You're kidding.</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">Nope.</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">How'd you get woken up then?</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">Technical failure.</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">You survived that?</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">That was the least of my challenges.</span>
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Jack recounts his side of the events of the past <span class="comment">
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amount of time</span> as well as some of the things he had read about in
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the logs or talked about with Annie.
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</p>
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<p class="comment">missing section</p>
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<p>
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They step outside and, following what remains of the old path, start
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walking. It is narrow and winded, overgrown, and has partially
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disappeared. Jack walks ahead, only half following the path, half making
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it up as he goes. Michelle struggles to follow, slowly falling behind.
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</p>
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<p>
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After a while, Jack stops abruptly, looking down at something, then up,
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then down again. Then, he turns to Michelle who is catching up to him
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and says: <span class="quote speech">Well, that could be a reason why
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the uplink is down – it literally <i>is down</i>...</span>.
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Michelle reaches the edge and and sees what Jack had stopped for:
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A huge ravine estends towards the top of the mountain where a landslide
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had left nothing but a cliff and a huge pile of rubble. At the top of
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the mountain, teetering on the edge, are two buildings – all
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that's left of the ground station. The rest of the buildings and
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the dish lay strewn around in pieces down below.
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</p>
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