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Hey there.
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This is Johan.
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I'm the facility manager at the Deep Earth Anomaly Department.
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Located on the coastal strip in East Antarctica.
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I'm uh signing in for yet another cold shift.
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I think I am on to something big.
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You know, because something something really strange is going on in this facility, let me tell you.
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And now I have developed a theory of what this might be.
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You see, Thomas and Ingrid are more quiet than usual.
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You know, of course, Thomas is still recovering from the chaos created by the iron sphere, but he should be up and about by now.
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I I've seen him peek out from his door, scouting the halls, but he doesn't leave his room at all.
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Then you have Ingrid.
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She just doesn't make a sound anymore at all.
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She just does her work and charges.
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Work charge, work, charge, work, charge, work, charge, you know.
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It doesn't even crack a joke anymore.
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So my theory about what is going on in this facility is that they are both secretly planning my birthday party.
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Which, according to my 1976 calendar, is in four days.
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You see, someone has been in my room while I was asleep.
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And I know this because the microphone was on the other side of the typewriter, and I am left-handed, and I like things that are convenient, even if I have to make it convenient myself, you know.
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These things I notice.
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You know, the devil is in the details, buddy, and I think that either Thomas or Ingrid snuck into my room while I was asleep to look for clues on what I might like for my birthday.
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If I am correct, I'll pretend like nothing, you know.
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Of course I I I'd hate to ruin it for them.
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I can't wait though, I I love birthdays.
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Anyways, the days go on.
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There's still no signs of Joshua or the iron sphere he took with him.
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I did, however, take a closer look at the photo of him with the fish, the photo on the cork board.
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And why I didn't check this before, I have no idea, but behind the photo was writing.
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And oddly enough the writing was in Norwegian and Joshua is not Norwegian.
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But it said it said I have it.
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It says Jagdren på länge.
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Min familje är trygg.
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Mine döttre är trygg.
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Håplig ha det fint prestationen.
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Ta varre på Docke bäge.
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Medlig hilsen Joshua Now I think he must have learned how to write Norwegian or he had someone help him, you know.
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Either way I was touched by his effort.
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Oh of course and sorry let me let me translate it for you in in English.
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So what he wrote in Norwegian is in English.
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I am doing good.
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I'm doing better than I have been in a long time.
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My family is safe.
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My daughters are safe.
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And I hope you are having a good time at your station.
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Take care of you both.
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All the best, Joshua.
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But yeah, this means that his faster-than-light device, or the galactic obeyer, or the go sometimes, worked.
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You know, it must have, because fish, beaches, and oceans are old, old, ancient gold.
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Which means that Joshua must be old and gone by now.
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If he stayed, of course.
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You know, perhaps he's out and about with his family in a time machine visiting history and all its glorious snooks and corners.
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You never know.
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Whatever he is up to, Godspeed, my good old friend.
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Godspeed.
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So at the moment it it all boils down to me still having to keep myself company, which uh I'm actually rather good at.
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You know.
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There's always stuff to do if you know what stuff there is to do in the place you are to do the stuff in.
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For instance, I once made a model of the Deep Earth Anomaly department in the snow outside.
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Same size and all.
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However, the blizzard erased it from the face of the earth like the war did with all those cities.
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But it was amazing.
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It even looked the same on the inside.
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However, because of the blizzard, I can't go out to create another one, so what I did was I went down to the basement to do some studying of my own.
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I went down to go study the red door.
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Which means I sat on a chair looking at the red door for hours.
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I sat looking at it, trying to figure out how to open it.
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And of course, there could be a door handle on the other side, you know that it simply can't be opened from this side.
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But that would mean that there is someone behind it.
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Which would mean that the mystery is oh so much greater than I initially imagined.
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I mean, if that is the case, who is it?
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Now when I first met Thomas Grind, the door was open, but I couldn't see anything but pitch black darkness going on and on and on and on ad infinitum.
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Not that I looked very hard, I I was quite occupied then by the fact that Ingri had been reduced to a pile of metal scraps.
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It's strange to think of that now.
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Now that I thought, you know, I remember thinking that Thomas Green was the overlord of all evil about to wreak havoc on my reality.
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You know, turns out he is well, weird.
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He's a cool guy, but he's weird.
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And don't get me wrong, I love weird.
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You know, if someone isn't weird, it's because they are hiding it.
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I mean, come on, friend.
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Be weird.
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Why waste such quality?
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Imagine a world where nobody is weird.
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You know, there are horrors here, believe you me, but none as frightening as the idea of a weirdless world.
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That would be weird.
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Anyways, I sat looking at the red door and um decided not to leave the chair I was sitting on until I figured out how to open it.
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Well, I was stubborn.
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I did leave the chair before I figured it out, I must admit I'm not that stubborn.
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Only because I had got a better idea, a somewhat radical idea.
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You wanna know what I did?
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Oh great divers from the far future?
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I knocked.
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I knocked five times, five solid times, if I can say so myself.
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Then I waited.
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Nothing.
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So I knocked another five times, then another five times, then another five times.
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There was nothing but the bussing from the lights in the ceiling.
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Nothing at all.
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It was it were worth a shot, I thought.
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At least I knew there was nobody on the other side, and my hypothesis my hypothesis had been debunked.
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Unless there was someone behind it.
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But they were asleep or busy doing something, you know.
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I I wouldn't hear knocking on this door if I were upstairs or sleeping, or doing whatever else I usually do.
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So my hypothesis wasn't really very solid, but it was the best I had.
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Also, I I had developed a need for a cup of coffee and decided to leave the basement when there came a heavy knock from the other side of the red door.
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Then another one.
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Then 18 more knocks.
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At that point I didn't need coffee anymore, let me tell you that much for a fact.
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I couldn't move, I was I was baffled.
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Like that fish in Joshua's photo was.
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I mean, what?
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You know, what?
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So I said, hello.
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Got two knocks in return, one for each syllable.
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So I asked, who is there?
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Then three knocks.
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Now I have no idea what three knocks means.
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There are many words with three syllables.
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It could mean I am here, but it could also mean chocolate, you know.
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So I said uh knock one knock for yes, two knocks for no, three for I don't know.
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I call this the language of simplicity.
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And then I asked, Who are you?
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But I got no knocks in return.
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Which makes sense, you know.
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Yes, no, or I don't know makes no sense of an answer to that question.
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My bad.
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So I said, I'm sorry.
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And instead I asked, Do you live here?
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One knock.
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Behind this door?
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I asked.
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Two knocks.
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I tried to think of what that meant, but before I managed to finish a thought, the knocking became hammering, scratching, pounding even.
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Then a scream that would shake the very fabric of time simmered through the steel door.
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And I I fell over, you know, and I ran out, up the stairs, locked the door, locked it up again, ran back down, got the spiders, the fluorescent spiders, and I ran back up and locked the door all over again.
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You know.
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I couldn't guarantee their safety down there after all of that, so I brought them up here.
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I set them up in the lab for the time being.
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I think they enjoyed the lights there because they immediately started webbing up.
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But yeah, I'm I'm not sure I want to know what's behind the red door anymore.
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Because it it didn't sound particularly friendly.
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You know, I I don't think I'll invite it to the next solar flare radiation celebration, let me tell you.
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But I logged it, um, and I will ask Thomas Grind the minute he's up for a chat about it.
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You know, after all, the door was wide open when I first met him, so he must have some sort of idea what is behind it.
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It was scary.
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Anyways, I'll put up a security camera down there to keep an eye on the door.
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You know, I would love to be a few steps ahead of whatever it is that lives behind it, should it decide to open up the door and come looking for protein, you know.
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Man, I wish Joshua was here.
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Joshua would have tackled it with a snap of his finger, you know, creating a shockwave with the force of a tactical hydrogen bomb.
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Oh well.
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I better go check on the little spideys before dawn, see if they have everything they need.
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Then I think I'll tuck in for the day.
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Hopefully I'll visit somewhere exotic in a dream, you know, get a subconscious tan, a subconscious lemonade, read a subconscious novel on a subconscious beach, somewhere subconscious.
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So yeah, a few itsy bitsy spiders need me, and then that's it for today.
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So this is Jaren signing off yet another cold shift.
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Hey there.
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This is Johan.
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I'm the facility manager at the Deep Earth Anomaly Department.
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Located on the coastal strip in East Antarctica.
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I'm uh signing in for yet another cold shift.
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I think I am on to something big.
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You know, because something something really strange is going on in this facility, let me tell you.
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And now I have developed a theory of what this might be.
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You see, Thomas and Ingrid are more quiet than usual.
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You know, of course, Thomas is still recovering from the chaos created by the iron sphere, but he should be up and about by now.
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I I've seen him peek out from his door, scouting the halls, but he doesn't leave his room at all.
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Then you have Ingrid.
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She just doesn't make a sound anymore at all.
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She just does her work and charges.
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Work charge, work, charge, work, charge, work, charge, you know.
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It doesn't even crack a joke anymore.
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So my theory about what is going on in this facility is that they are both secretly planning my birthday party.
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Which, according to my 1976 calendar, is in four days.
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You see, someone has been in my room while I was asleep.
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And I know this because the microphone was on the other side of the typewriter, and I am left-handed, and I like things that are convenient, even if I have to make it convenient myself, you know.
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These things I notice.
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You know, the devil is in the details, buddy, and I think that either Thomas or Ingrid snuck into my room while I was asleep to look for clues on what I might like for my birthday.
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If I am correct, I'll pretend like nothing, you know.
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Of course I I I'd hate to ruin it for them.
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I can't wait though, I I love birthdays.
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Anyways, the days go on.
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There's still no signs of Joshua or the iron sphere he took with him.
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I did, however, take a closer look at the photo of him with the fish, the photo on the cork board.
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And why I didn't check this before, I have no idea, but behind the photo was writing.
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And oddly enough the writing was in Norwegian and Joshua is not Norwegian.
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But it said it said I have it.
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It says Jagdren på länge.
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Min familje är trygg.
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Mine döttre är trygg.
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Håplig ha det fint prestationen.
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Ta varre på Docke bäge.
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Medlig hilsen Joshua Now I think he must have learned how to write Norwegian or he had someone help him, you know.
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Either way I was touched by his effort.
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Oh of course and sorry let me let me translate it for you in in English.
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So what he wrote in Norwegian is in English.
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I am doing good.
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I'm doing better than I have been in a long time.
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My family is safe.
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My daughters are safe.
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And I hope you are having a good time at your station.
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Take care of you both.
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All the best, Joshua.
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But yeah, this means that his faster-than-light device, or the galactic obeyer, or the go sometimes, worked.
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You know, it must have, because fish, beaches, and oceans are old, old, ancient gold.
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Which means that Joshua must be old and gone by now.
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If he stayed, of course.
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You know, perhaps he's out and about with his family in a time machine visiting history and all its glorious snooks and corners.
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You never know.
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Whatever he is up to, Godspeed, my good old friend.
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Godspeed.
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So at the moment it it all boils down to me still having to keep myself company, which uh I'm actually rather good at.
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You know.
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There's always stuff to do if you know what stuff there is to do in the place you are to do the stuff in.
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For instance, I once made a model of the Deep Earth Anomaly department in the snow outside.
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Same size and all.
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However, the blizzard erased it from the face of the earth like the war did with all those cities.
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But it was amazing.
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It even looked the same on the inside.
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However, because of the blizzard, I can't go out to create another one, so what I did was I went down to the basement to do some studying of my own.
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I went down to go study the red door.
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Which means I sat on a chair looking at the red door for hours.
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I sat looking at it, trying to figure out how to open it.
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And of course, there could be a door handle on the other side, you know that it simply can't be opened from this side.
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But that would mean that there is someone behind it.
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Which would mean that the mystery is oh so much greater than I initially imagined.
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I mean, if that is the case, who is it?
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Now when I first met Thomas Grind, the door was open, but I couldn't see anything but pitch black darkness going on and on and on and on ad infinitum.
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Not that I looked very hard, I I was quite occupied then by the fact that Ingri had been reduced to a pile of metal scraps.
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It's strange to think of that now.
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Now that I thought, you know, I remember thinking that Thomas Green was the overlord of all evil about to wreak havoc on my reality.
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You know, turns out he is well, weird.
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He's a cool guy, but he's weird.
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And don't get me wrong, I love weird.
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You know, if someone isn't weird, it's because they are hiding it.
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I mean, come on, friend.
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Be weird.
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Why waste such quality?
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Imagine a world where nobody is weird.
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You know, there are horrors here, believe you me, but none as frightening as the idea of a weirdless world.
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That would be weird.
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Anyways, I sat looking at the red door and um decided not to leave the chair I was sitting on until I figured out how to open it.
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Well, I was stubborn.
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I did leave the chair before I figured it out, I must admit I'm not that stubborn.
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Only because I had got a better idea, a somewhat radical idea.
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You wanna know what I did?
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Oh great divers from the far future?
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I knocked.
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I knocked five times, five solid times, if I can say so myself.
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Then I waited.
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Nothing.
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So I knocked another five times, then another five times, then another five times.
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There was nothing but the bussing from the lights in the ceiling.
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Nothing at all.
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It was it were worth a shot, I thought.
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At least I knew there was nobody on the other side, and my hypothesis my hypothesis had been debunked.
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Unless there was someone behind it.
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But they were asleep or busy doing something, you know.
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I I wouldn't hear knocking on this door if I were upstairs or sleeping, or doing whatever else I usually do.
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So my hypothesis wasn't really very solid, but it was the best I had.
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Also, I I had developed a need for a cup of coffee and decided to leave the basement when there came a heavy knock from the other side of the red door.
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Then another one.
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Then 18 more knocks.
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At that point I didn't need coffee anymore, let me tell you that much for a fact.
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I couldn't move, I was I was baffled.
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Like that fish in Joshua's photo was.
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I mean, what?
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You know, what?
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So I said, hello.
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Got two knocks in return, one for each syllable.
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So I asked, who is there?
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Then three knocks.
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Now I have no idea what three knocks means.
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There are many words with three syllables.
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It could mean I am here, but it could also mean chocolate, you know.
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So I said uh knock one knock for yes, two knocks for no, three for I don't know.
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I call this the language of simplicity.
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And then I asked, Who are you?
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But I got no knocks in return.
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Which makes sense, you know.
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Yes, no, or I don't know makes no sense of an answer to that question.
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My bad.
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So I said, I'm sorry.
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And instead I asked, Do you live here?
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One knock.
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Behind this door?
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I asked.
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Two knocks.
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I tried to think of what that meant, but before I managed to finish a thought, the knocking became hammering, scratching, pounding even.
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Then a scream that would shake the very fabric of time simmered through the steel door.
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And I I fell over, you know, and I ran out, up the stairs, locked the door, locked it up again, ran back down, got the spiders, the fluorescent spiders, and I ran back up and locked the door all over again.
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You know.
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I couldn't guarantee their safety down there after all of that, so I brought them up here.
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I set them up in the lab for the time being.
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I think they enjoyed the lights there because they immediately started webbing up.
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But yeah, I'm I'm not sure I want to know what's behind the red door anymore.
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Because it it didn't sound particularly friendly.
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You know, I I don't think I'll invite it to the next solar flare radiation celebration, let me tell you.
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But I logged it, um, and I will ask Thomas Grind the minute he's up for a chat about it.
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You know, after all, the door was wide open when I first met him, so he must have some sort of idea what is behind it.
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It was scary.
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Anyways, I'll put up a security camera down there to keep an eye on the door.
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You know, I would love to be a few steps ahead of whatever it is that lives behind it, should it decide to open up the door and come looking for protein, you know.
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Man, I wish Joshua was here.
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Joshua would have tackled it with a snap of his finger, you know, creating a shockwave with the force of a tactical hydrogen bomb.
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Oh well.
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I better go check on the little spideys before dawn, see if they have everything they need.
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Then I think I'll tuck in for the day.
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Hopefully I'll visit somewhere exotic in a dream, you know, get a subconscious tan, a subconscious lemonade, read a subconscious novel on a subconscious beach, somewhere subconscious.
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So yeah, a few itsy bitsy spiders need me, and then that's it for today.
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So this is Jaren signing off yet another cold shift.
