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The dark was heavy. It was not just the darkness of a cave. It was a thick, heavy blanket that wrapped around Jonah’s mind.Jonah was floating in an endless black ocean. He could not feel his arms. He could not feel his legs. He could not feel the terrible, burning hole in his stomach where the giant bone scythe had cut him.The pain was gone.It was a very strange feeling. For three days, his body had been a prison of pure agony. He had fought monsters, climbed down a mountain, and carried a dying friend. Every single second had been a battle against his own breaking bones and bleeding muscles.But now, in the dark water of his mind, everything was quiet. Everything was peaceful.Is this what death feels like? Jonah thought. It is not so bad. It is just... quiet.Far away, he heard a sound. It sounded like it was coming from the other side of a thick glass window."Dad! Please! Open your eyes!"It was Kevin. The voice was full of absolute heartbreak.Jonah wanted to answer his son. H
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They ran. They rushed down the steep dirt path. The rocks broke under their boots. They moved faster than before. Jonah’s sheer force of will pushed them forward.The red light flashed."Stop!" Elena screamed.The ceiling directly above them dropped like a massive stone hammer.Elena, Marcus, and Kevin threw themselves flat on the ground. The ceiling stopped only three feet above the floor. They were safe on their stomachs.But Jonah was carrying Lisa. He could not throw himself flat without crushing her broken ribs.Jonah stood in the middle of the path. The massive dirt ceiling came crashing down toward his head."Dad! Duck!" Kevin screamed in terror.Jonah did not duck. He could not. Jonah spread his thick legs wide. He held Lisa tightly against his chest with his left arm. He raised his massive right arm above his head. He locked his elbow.BAM!The dropping ceiling hit Jonah’s right hand.The weight of the earth was impossible. It was thousands and thousands of pounds of solid ro
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"The space is shifting," Kevin whispered from behind Jonah. "The environment is misaligned. The Dead Zone is breaking reality.""It is reacting to her," Jonah said. He looked down at Lisa in his arms.The corrupted energy from the shockwave was inside her. Her dying body was connected to the broken computer code of the Dead Zone. As she got weaker, the world around them got crazier.Hssssss...The red light pulsed.Suddenly, the ceiling of dirt above them dropped. It moved ten feet down in an instant, almost crushing their heads.Elena screamed and ducked. Marcus dropped to his knees, covering his head with his hands.Haaaaa...The red light faded. The ceiling snapped back up to its normal height."The walls are closing in on us!" Marcus panicked. He grabbed his heavy rifle. He aimed it wildly into the dark. "We are trapped! The cave is breathing! It is trying to crush us!""Put the gun down, Marcus!" Jonah commanded. "Shooting the walls will not save us!""We have to go back up!" Mar
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The red light pulsed. Lisa pulled a small, ragged breath into her crushed lungs. The deep chasm went completely dark.She breathed out. The dirt walls of the massive hole glowed with a sick, corrupted red light.Jonah stared at her pale face. He did not have time to cry anymore. He did not have time to feel sorry for himself. He had a job to do."I will carry her," Jonah said. His deep voice sounded like grinding stones.Kevin stepped forward. He held his broken shoulder with his good hand. "Dad, no," Kevin said. "You have a massive hole in your stomach. You are bleeding. If you carry her, you will rip the wound open again. Let me do it.""You have broken ribs and a dislocated shoulder," Jonah replied. He did not look at his son. He kept his dark eyes on Lisa. "If you drop her, she dies. I will not drop her.""But Dad—""I said, I will do it," Jonah commanded. There was no room for argument. He was the leader. He was the father. He would carry the heaviest weight.Jonah pushed himself
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"We rest," Jonah whispered. "We wait for our strength to return. And then, we climb down.""Climb down?!" Marcus yelled. He almost dropped the lighter. "Are you insane?! The machine down there is dead! You saw the light turn off!""It is not dead," Kevin argued. He held his broken shoulder. "I can still feel the vibration in the stone. It is very faint. But it is still beating.""It is a trap!" Marcus cried. "The virus is just waiting for us down there!"Jonah turned his head slowly to look at the old man."There is nowhere else to go, Marcus," Jonah said. His voice was tired, but it held the heavy truth. "If we climb back up, we will die in the yellow fog. If we stay on this ledge, we will starve. Our only hope is to reach the bottom. We have to find the Echo Seed. We have to see if we can turn it back on. If the Seed wakes up, maybe it can clear this fog. Maybe it can heal Lisa."Elena looked down at Lisa’s pale face. She gently stroked Lisa’s dirty hair. "I don't know how much time
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Elena placed the flat heel of her right hand in the exact center of Lisa’s bruised chest. She placed her left hand over her right hand. She locked her elbows."I have to pump her heart and force the lungs to move," Elena explained. "Jonah, keep her head tilted back!"Elena pushed down hard on Lisa’s chest.Crack.They all heard the sickening sound of Lisa’s broken ribs shifting under Elena’s hands.Jonah winced. He wanted to stop Elena. He wanted to protect Lisa from the pain. But he knew Elena was trying to save her life.Elena pushed again. And again. She pumped Lisa’s chest in a fast, steady rhythm.One. Two. Three. Four."Breathe, damn it," Elena whispered. Tears streamed down the burned side of her face. "Breathe for us."One. Two. Three. Four.The small orange flame from the lighter flickered in the cold wind. Time seemed to slow down. The silence in the dark chasm was deafening. There was only the sound of Elena pushing on Lisa’s chest.Push. Push. Push."It's not working," Kev
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