It’s been a long day. It started when we stepped through the portal back in East Bay. None of us had any idea what we were walking in to, only that we had run out of reasons not to go. The hum of the generator was the last familiar sound. I did not realize how much it lived in the walls of the annex until it vanished. One second it was there under the floor and behind my ribs, the way it had been for every test. The next second it was gone, cut off clean. There was a thin Continue reading
