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It's officially winter break. You stumble toward your dorm room, brain turned to mush from taking five exams in three days.


All you have to do is grab your suitcase, and then you'll be on your way to NYC to stay with your boyfriend, Keith, and his parents for Christmas. You've never met them, but he's told you that they have a large, luxurious apartment with a pool--which sounds awesome, but intimidating. 


Anyway.


Keith, the lucky son of a gun, has already flown out. (He's a creative writing major. His exams consist of writing poems about his childhood and writing essays about the meaning of life.)


You pause in the hallway (which is empty--almost everyone else has finished exams and gotten the heck out of here.) Like every college dorm room in every movie ever, there's a whiteboard on your door.


Now there's an "I Heart NY" magnet on there. The magnet holds a postcard with a photo of the Statue of Liberty. You're pretty sure it wasn't there when you left this morning.

You take the postcard from the board.

In thick black Sharpie, it says


"Dear Clara,


If you leave, I'll go too. So I can kill you."


No exclamation point. Like it's a fact. 


So, um...that happened. You aren't real big on taking risks...but then again, is this a risk or a weird joke?

You why take chances? Stay and watch Netflix.

Why take chances? You were nervous about meeting his family anyway. You don't go.


Your boyfriend is mad at you for about a month afterward, and you start to regret how cowardly you were--both about the note and meeting his parents. You clearly don't have the capacity to think for yourself--and you're selfish.


In May, Keith gets a middle-management job at his dad's company, which was always the unspoken plan (though Keith told people at parties that he was an aspiring writer.) He moves to New York City, and you are so bent on redeeming yourself for not coming to see him at Christmas that you follow him out there without really considering that you aren't in love with him anymore.


A year later, you're engaged, and a year after that, you marry him. His father's company promotes him quickly (so quickly his colleagues secretly hate him).You have two kids. You suspect he's cheating, but you don't really think about it until he comes home just before your twentieth anniversary. He tells you he's in love with his secretary.


Goblins haunt your dreams.


After a two-year divorce battle over alimony and custody, you are angry, exhausted, and consumed with the need for vengeance. As the years go by, nothing much changes. You resent Keith for the way he controlled your life, but at this point you're too lazy to be proactive. This attitude remains basically unchanged until you die--which happens when you're an old woman, but jeez, what a pointless life.
In thick black Sharpie, it says


"Dear Clara,


If you leave, I'll go too. So I can kill you."


No exclamation point. Like it's a fact. 


So, um...that happened. You aren't real big on taking risks...but then again, is this a risk or a weird joke?

You go anyway. It's obviously a joke.

Um, this is clearly a joke--and since you don't get it, it's probably for your roommate. Obviously you aren't going to screw up your holiday plans and waste the $900 ticket Keith generously got for you.


You finish packing. As you roll your suitcase down the deserted hallway, you see something disappearing around a corner: a figure about three feet tall, with green skin.


Should you follow it, or ignore your obviously delusional and sleep-deprived mind?
A feeling of intense dread fills you up, making you feel not so warm inside.  You're last trip to this place was….interesting.  After getting painfully banished you decided to ignore the place and just continue on business as usual. 


But you NEED to get these crystals, otherwise what will become of your place in Discorina?


It takes hours, but eventually you make your way past the main city, and through the dirt road.  Ahead, the large and dark castle looms over head.  The ashy clouds spewing a host of rain and lightning strikes viciously at the ground.  The stone walls surrounding the castle appear foreboding, several small watchtowers dot the wall.


Dark spires stretching upward, the metal spikes on top of them catching some of the lightning bolts.  As you near the wall, you swear you hear something turning and whirring from deep within the castle, amidst the sound of the storm.


Shivering and trembling you jog over to the castle, hoping you can get what you're looking for, and maybe a place to warm up.


The large wooden gate appears to be shut, you didn't expect it to just be wide open though.  You grab the rope on the side and pull it with all of your might.  The large bell connected to it rings out its horrid tune.


As you stand, soaked and cold, the door slowly opens but just a bit.  Taking a step forward you squint at the opening.


"Who's there?" a voice says, "Ford?  Is that you?"


"Yep," you say.


"Ha, you know you're not allowed here."


"I'm just here for some magic crystals…nothing else," you say.


"I think that would be going against the rules…remember what happened last time you were here?"


"Can you at least let me in from the cold, please," you say, "wouldn't it be nice?"


The door opens more, and the source of the voice steps out.  A tall man, hair shaved and clean shaven, he smiles.  But there is something else to that smile, it's not exactly coming from a place of hospitality.


"Sure," he chuckles, "this should be interesting."


"Thanks," you say as you walk past him.


You enter the tunnel that eventually leads to the door…which you find to be open.  Walking in like you own the place, you take a look around.  The large keep appears empty…as far as you can tell.


The winds of the storm buffets against the castle, it almost obscures the sound of your soft steps as you traverse across the large keep. 


Wandering down the halls, you stop suddenly as you hear something. 


"REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"


Shrugging your shoulders you continue, must have just been your imagination.


The halls twist and wind, and you feel as lost as ever.  How did you ever navigate this place in the short time you had spent here?


That darn Sorceress must be around here somewhere, she must have some magic crystals.  But where could she be?

You garden

You go to the interior garden, flowing with life, plants, some animals, the place is huge.  You look around, and as you call out don't see anyone.  Guess you'll have to look elsewhere.
You decide its too dangerous to pursue the team of  elite ex-military men. In addition you have alot of cash to spend, retire and make  your family comfortable. You pick up the box of cash and walk away towards a taxi at the corner of the block. You get in and travel back home. You count the money and find amounts in excess of 20 million dollars.


You hide your find and head back to hospital for treatment. Your boss later visits you in  hospital and lets you know that a team of policemen spotted the robbers splitting the stolen money near a parking lot. They managed to dispose an explosive devise planted at the scene  and were reviewing nearby CCTV surveillance cameras to identify the culprits.


Your heart beats palpitatingly as you listen to the Special Agent in Charge. The boss is a close friend who always respected you for your professional records. You wonder whether you should confess that you took some money from the team and split the spoils or let the investigation take its course since there was a chance the video surveillance might not reveal his identity at the parking lot

You keep quiet about your meeting with the robbers

You don't trust your boss. He is a stickler for rules and he may report you. You let the incident go and sit there listening to him.The CCTV surveillance reports come out and fails to reveal your identities. The heist team was clever enough to cover their tracks and destroyed the camera a day before the heist.


You recover and go on with your duties in the force to avoid suspicion. You plan to keep a low profile and retire in the next 2 years.
"Rohn, Lewis, Sean, Larry and Beck" you muse  as you stand up to regard them.


They were all part of another team of your  special forces unit that had been regarded Killed in Action during a search and rescue mission two years ago in a Siberian bank heist. The discovery finally solved a mystery in which both the team, the robbers and the money were never found.


You remain speechless as the revelation hits you piece by piece. No wonder the heist was executed with pin point precision.


"We don't have time." muttered Jack. He picks a box full of cash and places it at your feet and signals the team to pack off.


You are still in a dilemma as the team leaves you standing and walks away towards a parking lot guns in hand.

You warn the police officers and pursue the robbers

You warn the officer that there was an explosive rigged to blow in the tunnel. You wait for backup and decide to pursue the team.


Although your backup sustains injuries and deaths you manage to arrest 2 of the men and recover a total of 112 million dollars. You also save the lives of 10 police officers. You receive a presidential commendation and are appointed the director of the National Security Division.

You retribution

You are at your office when you receive a call that a group of terrorists have held hostages in a nearby bank. The terrorists demand that you be handed over to them in exchange for the release of the hostages. the president gives you a call and lets you know that he trusts your judgment. As you deliberate on the matter a hostage is shot dead.


You assess the situation. 1 life for many.......seemingly fairtrade.
You decide to first shoot the 2nd floor terrorist and send the bomb disposal expert. A sniper takes out the 2nd floor terrorist. The rest of the terrorists seem not to notice. You send in the bomb disposal expert through a fire escape collumn at the side of the building. He gets to the location and as he attempts to tinker with it another terrorist gets into the room and shoots your expert. Immediately he rushes to arm the bomb and is shot too by your sniper as he runs away. Hostages begin running out of the building but as they run out, an explosion tears the yard around the buidling throwing away debris .


You are thrown away by the force and find yourself in a nearby ditch after a while. You stand up and look around, your ears ringing from the explosion.


Your entire team is wiped out.


You limp towards the entrance of the building to inspect the building. Debris is scattered all over the floor and the hall is obscured by a plume of smoke and dust settling from the explosion. you manage to reach the open vault. It has been plundered with cash bundles strewn on the floor. Its seems the robbers stole what they could carry.


You limp back to the banking hall and notice a hole on the ground but before you approach it you notice your leg is bleeding profusely and tear off a piece of cloth from the debris to bandage the wound. Just then an ambulance parks at the front entrance with its sirens blaring. A paramedic runs into the bank and looks around the bank for survivors that might need help.


He runs back towards you. "You don't look good," he proclaims as he proceeds to examine your leg."You need to go to hospital.'' You barely hear his voice.


Out of confusion you don't say a word. Your ears are still ringing from the explosion. Just then you remember that your second team was laying an ambush at the end of the tunnels. The medic holds your hand towards the exit and you see a police vehicle idling with its doors open. You could easily jump into the vehicle and drive to the ambush site but your leg hurts

You go to hospital

You decide to let your assistant handle the situation. You get onto the ambulance and go to hospital. You later learn that the ambush team was wiped out in the attack and another 10 police officers were killed by explosives. A total of 112 million dollars was stolen from the bank.


You are tried for negligence and lose your job over the your team and the police officers' deaths.
You call your assistant and assign him an assault team of 10 strong. You send them to the septic tank and brief them. The team leaves and lays ambush at the location.


As the second  team drives away enroute to their location they catch a glimpse of a bomb set near the second floor window manned by one of the terrorists and let you know about it. You call your bomb expert and brief him. He examines the location and confirms that it was indeed a bomb. He tells you  the good news  that the bomb had to be manually set off to go off after a 5 minute timed delay.


You wonder whether it is better to shoot the 2nd floor terrorist first and send the bomb expert to dispose it but risk a panic by the terrorist who may shoot the hostages or


Take out the 2nd floor terrorist during the surprise attack and takeover the building without risking the hostage deaths by shooting

You surprise attack

You decide a coordinated surprise attack would be more effective in arresting the fallout from the hostage situation.


You order your sniper to shoot the terrorist on 2nd floor and shoot anyone entering the room when the attack commences. You give the command and the attack is made. All hostages run out of the building but the terrorist disappear through the underground water tunnels. You alert your team laying ambush to expect  company at their end.


You jump into a waiting car and rush to the ambush site
The building was renovated a decade ago and the old waterways were sealed with waterproof cement. It had remained unused for the period of time. The drainage had a diameter of about a meter and led to an abandoned septic tank 3 blocks away.

You ignore waterway and focus on the current location

You decided the waterway is too old and is sealed. In addition you know that the terrorists were most likely to use the hostages to escape. It would be a waste of resources to send another team to the septic tank and you would rather focus your attention on the current location

You prisoner release

After 20 minutes the prisoner has boarded the plane and is airborne. You inform the terrorists that their prisoner is airborne. The terrorists demand that the plane land at a secondary private airstrip near the border and be handed to a team waiting to transfer him to a jet.


You weigh your options. If you complied with their actions,the prisoner is likely to escape since you were not allowed to pursue targets across the border, otherwise it would spew diplomatic rows as it would be seen as an act of war.


If you detained the prisoner, the terrorists are likely to kill all the hostages at the bank. Both options were not tenable but a choice had to be made

The bluff

You decide to release the prisoner and decide to accompany the team escorting the prisoner to the strip. You get to the airstrip and find a jet ready to leave. You realize there is no way of retaining the prisoner and that the best way is to first ensure safe custody of hostages.The prisoner embarks on the jet and you rush back to the plane to coordinate the hostage release. As your plane nears the city you see a billow of black smoke rising to the sky.


You learn that your entire team has been wiped out.  As you are still pondering, your cell phone rings. It is your brother's wife calling.You pick up the call and listen.


"Halo........he is gone, he is gone" sobs your sister in law


"who is gone? where...." You ask


"Tim was killed in the attack"she answers and continues to cry until the line goes dead.


You  hold your head in anguish


Later on you discover that the prisoner release was a trick diversion to draw your attention away from the  bank. A large consignment of cash was stolen through abandoned underground waterways and the bombs set off anyway by a group believed to be ex-military personnel.
You decide that its not worth losing hostages over a single prisoner. Furthermore, it would be easier to trace a group of escaping terrorists running across the country with all the inter-agency resources at your disposal.


You call the Director and he shares your views after assurance of the mission's success. You promise him that you would not let the terrorists escape. He barks vehemently on the phone and lets you know that if they escape you would be answerable.


You immediately call back the terrorists and inform them of the decision to comply with their demands. The terrorists demand that their prisoner be put on a plane to a destination that would be disclosed once the plane was airbound. You make the arrangements and go back to looking at the floor plans.


You notice an underlying old waterway below the building's blue print.

You ignore the waterway and focus on coordinating the release

You decided the waterway is too old and is sealed. In addition you know that the terrorists were most likely to use the hostages to escape. It would be a waste of resources to send another team to the septic tank and you would rather focus your attention on the current location.

You prisoner release

The terrorists demand for their prisoner to be put on a plane whose destination would be disclosed once it was airborne.


After 20 minutes the prisoner has boarded the plane and is airborne. You inform the terrorists that their prisoner is airborne. The terrorists demand that the plane land at a secondary private airstrip near the border and be handed to a team waiting to transfer him to a jet.


You weigh your options. If you complied with their actions,the prisoner is likely to escape since you were not allowed to pursue targets across the border, otherwise it would spew diplomatic rows as it would be seen as an act of war.


If you detained the prisoner, the terrorists are likely to kill all the hostages at the bank. Both options were not tenable but a choice had to be made

The bluff

You decide to release the prisoner and decide to accompany the team escorting the prisoner to the strip. You get to the airstrip and find a jet ready to leave. You realize there is no way of retaining the prisoner and that the best way is to first ensure safe custody of hostages.The prisoner embarks on the jet and you rush back to the plane to coordinate the hostage release. As your plane nears the city you see a billow of black smoke rising to the sky.


You learn that your entire team has been wiped out.  In addition, a cash consignment of 112 million dollars has been stolen from the bank by the robbers  who escaped through underground waterways. The prisoner release was a ruse to distract you from the escape.


You are tried for negligence and for the death of your team.
You run to the kitchen where your wife is cooking. She smiles as she sees you. You quickly peck her on the cheek and you tell her that you have an urgent work situation. She understands and bids you goodbye.


You rush out and jump onto your SUV and pull away from the parking lot in a hurry. 15 minutes later you get to your designated location and notice a number of police vehicles with their hazard lights on. Your team is already on site and awaiting further orders. You alight half running and your assistant Special agent in charge hands you your protective gear and gun. He briefs you on the situation on site and waits for your command. You assess the situation including all exit routes from the building.


The terrorists have held hostage a total of 27 customers and 12 employees of the bank.They demand that a well known terrorist be released or hostages will be executed by the hour. You learn that the terrorists had planned their stay with enough food supplies for 3 days and were not planning to leave anytime. Delaying tactics would not work.


You look at your watch and you only have 4 minutes until the 1st hostage is executed. Your assistants holds the line for the Director National Security Branch, just in case you decide to negotiate.


"We are running out of time sir" He urges 


Snipers were in position and the team had also taken the front  and back entrances

You launch a surgical strike with unknown casualties

You decide to launch a surgical strike but you don't know the number of  casualties that would be injured . As you read through your plan for the final time you notice some old abandoned underground waterways  beneath the building.
Its a sunny Saturday morning, you are sitted on the staircase to your home sipping coffee and mulling over the day's newspaper after your routine morning run. Its a your rest day and you plan on tucking in the whole day having had 2 long weeks. Its been 2 years since you left the military and joined the Anti-Terrorism Unit having earned a medal of honor for saving your team from what would have been an overwhelming annihilation from enemy forces in Syria.


Non-military life had its perks-relaxed time frames, more family time, no foreboding barking of commands and best of all a near-predictable life routine. Your walkie-talkie is rested on the floor next to you, just in case there were any alerts on the events frequency. 


Just then it chuckles to life as you turn a page on the newspaper.

You do not pick up walkie-talkie

You look at the walkie-talkie. Its not your job since you are on rest. You had promised your wife to stay at home and play with the kids. More so, there were other Special Agents in charge to lead the team.You turn to the next page and proceed to read the news paper ignoring the call.


The line goes quiet and you forget the whole incident. You can smell something sweet coming from the kitchen and you cant wait to have  the good meal.

You perfect rest day

It has been the perfect rest day. You lie on the couch and switch on the Television. There is breaking news showing terrorism attack in your city. 139 civilians and 23 agents of the Anti-terrorism Unit are reported dead from an explosion that rocked a bank in your city. The terrorists are said to have demanded for release of a well known prisoner but the security forces decided to launch an attack to rescue the hostages. Unknown to them, the whole building had been rigged to blow in case a rescue mission was attempted.


You shoot to your feet, mouth agape as you take in the bad news. Your whole team has been wiped out  in the attack. As you are still pondering, your cell phone rings. It is your brother's wife calling. 


You pick up the call and listen.


"Halo........he is gone, he is gone" sobs your sister in law


"who is gone? where...." You ask


"Tim was killed in the attack"she answers and continues to cry until the line goes dead.


You fall onto the couch and hold your head in anguish