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NO!!! CURSE THE WORLD, CURSE THIS DOWN, CURSE THE FATE THAT BROUGHT ME HERE!

My hands are trembling as I write this, and I must pause to wipe the sweat from my brow. The portal test was a DISASTER. In C's fatigue, she accidentally left the rope wrapped around her wrist, and once the dummy was released, C's entire body was pulled into the portal along with it!

Luckily, I was able to grab hold of the robe and pull her back into our dimension, unharmed. I knew that, despite the accident, C had experienced a remarkable opportunity to confirm or deny our theory! But C would tell me nothing of what she witnessed on the other side of the portal- she was so frightened and angry over the whole ordeal that she spouted some nonsense about "The Apocalypse" and in a huff she broke up with me and quit the project! After everything we have done and been through together, how could she break us off just like that?! After she had succeeded in being the first human to enter a parallel dimension, she took this gift and threw it away? Imagine if Neil Armstrong's first words on the moon were "I Quit!"

Well GOOD RIDDANCE, C, you weak-willed candy wrapper! Go back to your own family and a life of fear and compromise! I weep now not for our failed relationship, but for the golden opportunity thrown away. I̶ ̶a̶m̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶c̶r̶y̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶e̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶s̶a̶d̶n̶e̶s̶s̶;̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶'̶r̶e̶ ̶m̶a̶n̶l̶y̶ ̶t̶e̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶a̶n̶g̶e̶r̶.̶

To think I considered her special enough to marry! I know my true friend. It is my Muse. I will speak with him tonight. I will seek his counsel.

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Something is not right.

I̶ ̶n̶e̶e̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶s̶t̶o̶p̶ ̶e̶a̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶m̶y̶ ̶s̶h̶i̶r̶t̶.̶

I am used to hearing the Muse's voice in my head on occasion. But now suddenly I hear whispers. The murmuring voices of beasts. The echoing howls of lost souls. This is not right at all. It is almost as though my Muse is contacting others. Ghouls from another world. The more I listen, the more I am convinced it is NOT my imagination. My head throbs. Right behind my birthmark. My right eye burns. I heard my Muse say something...

"The door is open"....

What have I done?

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