The Cardinal Directive: Mission Log #17

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“Okay… I didn’t have a camera, so you’re going to have to just trust me,” Charlie prefaced, readying herself for the tale. “So, like Patrick said, we were lost. We were supposed to find the room we were looking for at the end of the hall, but we must have passed it. So I turned around and started to backtrack. I swear, I was only walking for a few seconds…”

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Though Charlie didn’t have a camera on her, the ARNEN camera array had eyes on her the entire way through.

It caught her as she began to backtrack, turning the corner out of sight while Patrick cleaned off the camera’s lens.

Despite her words, it was not a “few seconds”. Seemingly not long after losing visual contact with him, Charlie’s movements became irregular and erratic. She picked up into a near-jog, her head snapping in either direction every few seconds and taking apparently random turns.

Several minutes passed before Alison’s scream echoed throughout the facility as she fell. A few seconds later, Charlie slowed down and turned, looking all around and seemingly realizing for the first time that she was alone.

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“Patrick…? You’d better not be pulling a prank!”

The fog swallowed up Charlie’s words and provided no response. Wherever Patrick was, he wasn’t in earshot anymore. She was confused, walking back the way she’d come expecting to see him just around the corner, but he was nowhere to be found. Her surroundings didn’t look familiar anymore.

The only sound was her suit beeping, reminding her about the contamination warning.