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You sighed and left the room. Your shoes chaffed the floor as it turned from concrete to dirt. You looked up and saw a huge cave with brilliant blue hues cast about.

You didn't get to take in the beauty of the caves before, and it's breathtaking. Asides from wreaked vending machines and fallen shelves, that is. Both rock and metal pillars stood strong against the roof. Separating you from a vending machine full of cola, was a shelf.

You clamoured past the cold metal, avoiding tripping. Your foot stood atop a crate to get over a separator, it fell into the crate.

 Your foot stood atop a crate to get over a separator, it fell into the crate

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Old papers spilled out, you sat down to read them. You skimmed your fingers along the edges of the paper, they must have been old by the slight discolouration. Paper cut! Wincing at the sudden pain, you drop the paper.
"Wow, great."
Picking it back up to read its contents was not an easy task while trying to avoid touching the edges of it.

In bold letters at the top of the page read "Operation #]*}%]*}^" the second word blurred out by some dirt.

"Since the downfall of this place, everything's gotten out of hand. They've sent guards to contain all the subjects but to no avail. Each attempt a failure even with help from previous experiments, resulting in more gootraxians than humans. They've closed off the exits unaware I'm still alive, for now.

Although if they did, they wouldn't care. Depending how far away March 31 202# is, I may still be alive, or lost."

Desperately,

Squid."

"Okay who is 'squid' and why is that their name, why not something like Jake, Coral, or if you want a quirky sea name, Koral."

You remembered your goal and proceeded past the downed shelf to the vending machine, an old MAC company owned one. It held only two types of drinks, some brown cola, and one green brew. A carbonated drink seems nice right now after all that hard work of either murder or walking across a room.

Cola
The classic
Brew
The copy

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