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14th January 2056
I J U M P out of the van I was once carried in to the same spot I was sitting in, but today with a different purpose, target and maybe leg? I chuckle.
Moving forward with the rest of the INVST beside or behind me, we come over to our first footprint with blood, a few of the INVST squat down taking samples for tests, the rest walk down the road doing the same till they reached the visible end of it.
I take a safety bag and drag Dan my fellow investigator down the endless road into the forest, taking in all the details a broken branch, crushed roots, rushing water and everything seems to scream 'someone was here'.
Dan turns on a flashlight as we get deeper and deeper into the forest "grrrrrrr" a growl, I gulp "Dan?" I whisper reaching out for him "Mia stay close and shush" he says holding me tightly, we continue exploring till we reach a cleared land, it had an ash spot, some logs, a nice-looking hut and meat, "seemed like deer was for dinner" Dan jokes and I chuckle "it's a Syrline for sure" I say, he nods in agreement.
We survey the ground, picking a few items along, when we're done something catches my eyes, something purple behind the window, I stare at it for a while and it shifts "Dan it knows we're here" I say while backing up slowly, "get your tranquilizers ready" he responds with determination in his eyes I stare at him crazily but do it anyway, the door opens and some beast lunges towards us, it's too fast and am too scared, I trigger the tranquilizers shooting anywhere on its body so does Dan, soon it collapses, I throw a stone at it to make sure it's out cold.
Confirming this, I move towards it slowly then kneel and move its face, I gasp "a man?" "is this what syrlines look like" I say in my thoughts, "woah, a real syrline" Dan whispers pulling out his walkie talkie informing the team about the site but not the syrline, I keep observing the syrline it had a strong physique and purple eyes "interesting" I mumble.
"come on they're here" Dan says patting my shoulders, a few minutes later a stretcher takes the syrline as they do this I spot a scar, a big nasty scar, it looked like a surgery-gone-wrong scar "but syrlines can't have scars except with silver, what does this mean?" I think making a mental note of it I walk towards the van.
Confused, tired, exhausted, you name it; I take the front-row seat and buckle up, soon I doze off not before remembering that nasty S C A R.
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Syrlines
Mystery / Thriller"one for all, all for one," "I'll try till the end even if it means dieing." Humans and Syrlines. That's what the world has become. After tests and experiments the TIST(Teaching Institute of Science and Technology) had genetically altered the DNA o...
