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The creak of the stair was a gunshot in the abandoned structure. Marguerite jumped, foot slipping on something wet, heart throbbing in her eardrums. Frozen, she clutched the rail and looked down. The rusty stain on the landing trailed upwards. Crouching, one millimeter at a time, she sniffed, twitched her nostrils, observing the pattern and viscosity of everything around her. The hair on the back of her neck and forearms hackled.
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Nothing could be worse than being vaporised in the apocalypse. At least that's what you thought when your phone rang with an alert that you'd been one of the lucky few to be sent to a special underground bunker known as Outpost 3. It seemed that you weren't only rich enough to pay but also had the "perfect DNA match". But as you spend more and more of your life concealed in the bunker, you begin to realise that your lucky pass wasn't really ever that lucky. Disclaimer: YOU HAVE TO READ THE FIRST THAT WITCH BITCH FOR THIS TO MAKE ANY SENSE AT ALL
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