Internal Defense System

"Blacksite's falling apart. Nobody's happy after yesterday's fiasco. You know how it is. Off you go."

After what-?What did that mean?

You are unceremoniously abandoned back in the dining hall.

You opendo not the folder. The folder's perimeter sticks but the pages inside are laminatedold.

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It's coldfalling apart. All of it. Your body twitches like it's remembered it exists in space, and your eyes dart to where the door where you came from should've been, but there's nothing there.. A migraine blooms behind your eyes.

The Blacksite shudders. Even Lopee looks up when it does. The lights flicker. Something just outside the window drops--a turret? It's longer than you are tall, hidden save for the length of its muzzle, and it slams low into the window. A hairline fracture spreads outward from the impact.

"For context, brief lapses in proper Blacksite presence are not uncommon; we regularly receive null location information from the PDG GPS system when an expendable strays far from course. This has become increasingly common as of recent, which we do our best to account for. But even your case is an extreme outlier."

"For contextthat being said, brief lapses in proper Blacksite presence are not uncommon; we regularly receivethe Blacksite does not null location information from the PDG GPS system when an expendable strays far from course. This has become increasingly commonwhy don't you listen as of recent, which we do our best to account for. But even your casefor your own sake is an extreme outlier."please.

"For context, brief lapses in proper Blacksite presence are not uncommon; we regularly receive null location information from the PDG GPS system when an expendable strays far from course. This has become increasingly common as of recent, which we do our best to account for. But even your case is an extreme outlier."

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     an extreme outlier."}

"Is there anything you'd want to doThe beeping quickens., if you got out?" you ask.

"...that's fair. I don't know what I'd do if I got out of hereLike a heartbeat., either."

Like it is second nature, Lopee breaks the distance between youThe shadows turn opaque black.--one moment he's standing back, the next he's grabbing you by the shoulder--

You see the next room.You can't see anything. And then that is gone, too.

"If there's a way out--why not go for it? We can get out and burn Urbanshade to the ground."(Something far-away melts into the static: Beeping. It slides past your perception, irrelevant.)