Lemuria

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DR. LAUREN REEVES HAD been trained to deal with all sorts of emergencies, but her myriad skills and experience could not ever have prepared her for what was happening at that very moment. Death was near, so close she could feel its cold, wet fingers reaching out to her.

The corridor was flooded, the watery black muck up to her waist. One of her shoes had been ripped away when the inner laboratory was hit by the deluge that knocked out most of the installation’s power, and the sharp pain she felt on her bare ankle meant she would have to make it out of there on only one good leg. It had taken mere minutes for the odds of her survival to be reduced to a single percentile, and the fear began to gnaw at her very bones.

Pulling out her smartphone from the inner pocket of her dirtied lab smock, she tried to call for help, only to realize the saltwater had already shorted it out, and it wouldn’t power up.

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