Endurance // M. Taylor

xii. karma

"Rose, what is all that?" Sam asks, as she looks over at the stuff in my hands. It looks like a book of some sort, and looks very old and delicate.

"It's that old guy's bag." I reply, and continue to search through the bag. Which just so happened to have a map of the entire mountain, mines, and lodge on it.

"Is that a map?" Mike says, anxiously wanting to get his hands on it. He would obviously need it to find his way down the mountain.

"This guys is prepared for anything and everything!" Sam says, helping me out with the stuff. Sam starts to pull out the map and look at it. At the very tip top was a sanatorium.

"Wait, what is that?" Sam asks, and Mike immediately answers. Like he's been there before.

"I've been there, it's horrible." Mike says, looking down at the map again. He'd clearly been through hell down there.

"You were?" Sam asks him, looking back at him. His face looked pale, he was covered in dirt and snow and other things. He looked like he wanted to get a shower. Mike nodded and Sam looked as shocked as ever.

"There had been a cave-in in the fifties and I guess these miners got trapped down there. Some of them survived but like...fifteen of them didn't make it. There was even this reporter and I think he figured out there had been some big cover up going on. I found these plans, and they knew the mines were a death trap, but they let the miners keep working anyway. And...I found this chair with dried blood all over the place...like somebody had been tortured." Mike explains. I was actually very intrigued about the whole thing. Who would actually let people work in dangerous conditions like that?

"Can we get back to how we're going to get the fuck out of here please?" Ashley says, trying to get everyone back on track. I was disgusted with her right now, after what had just went down with Emily. Her body was just on the table, rotting away.

"He just saying how much weird shit has gone on up here. It's actually pretty interesting too." I say, standing up for Mike. Which, honestly, I never thought I'd have to do.

"What's weird is that there is a tunnel leading from the lodge to the sanatorium, see?" Sam points to the lines showing tunnels.

"That's how I got back here." Mike says, which totally makes perfect sense. Although, he must have been walking for like an hour since it's like nearly four miles down the mountain.

"Okay...well I'll be back soon. Just...stay here please." Mike says, as he goes for the exit. Off he goes. The plan was for him to go back to the sanatorium and get to the cable car that way, instead of going back upstairs and getting right in the tracks of the Wendigo if it was still up there.

"Well, you heard the man. We're staying put." I say, and walk towards Chris. He gives me a quick hug before we sat together on the bookshelves. I was anxiously waiting for Mike's return. Or if he returns at all...

Ashley and I continued to pass the time by looking through the flamethrower guy's stuff. A lot of it was actually pretty interesting. It talked a lot about the Wendigos and what they can do to people and things. But, what I found next had me shaking to my core.

"Oh no..." Ashley mumbles scarcely, not letting go of her tight grasp on the book she was currently hold in on to.

"What? What is it? What does is say?" Sam gets up and begins to head towards Ash and I. I look at Ashley but she doesn't seem to spit it out. I grab the book from her hands and read what she must have read.

"Oh..." It had hit me like a truck, "If you get bitten by a Wendigo, it doesn't turn you into one. It doesn't do anything...it's not infectious." Everyone in the room looked at Emily. I look over at Sam and she takes the book out of my hands instantly.

Mike had killed Emily for no reason. She was dead. And it was entirely his fault.

"Shit..." Sam says under her breath, breathing heavily and pacing around the room. I knew that if Mike got bit, he might just kill himself to stop himself from turning. But Mike also didn't know that a bite wasn't infectious. Someone had to tell him that before he did something stupid.

"We've gotta get to Mike." Sam says, looking for the exit that Mike had just went through not fifteen minuets ago.

Sam sat the book on the table and everyone seemed to follow her. I got myself mentally prepared for whatever was beyond that door. Here goes...

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Roslyn Baker
Matt's Ex

Character Stats

Honest: 7/10▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▫️▫️▫️
Charitable: 8/10▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▫️▫️
Funny: 8/10 ▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▫️▫️
Brave: 8/10 ▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▫️▫️
Romantic: 9/10 ▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▫️
Curious: 9/10 ▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▫️

Relationship Status

Ashley: 4/10 ▪️▪️▪️▪️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️
Beth: 9/10 ▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▫️
Chris: 7/10 ▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▫️▫️▫️
Emily: 3/10 ▪️▪️▪️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️
Hannah: 9/10 ▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▫️
Jessica: 6/10 ▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▫️▫️▫️▫️
Josh: 8/10 ▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▫️▫️
Matt: 9/10 ▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▫️
Mike: 9/10 ▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▫️
Sam: 9/10 ▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▫️