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A Gorgon's Journal - Part 2
Day 3, Month 1, Year 1
The only goal for today was to find a way to easily move heavy statues around the temple. While I could carry them, it would be slow and painful. Plus, the odds of me breaking and shattering one would be too high. I spent the first part of the day searching the temple for rope but to no avail. In the end, I ended up using some of the largest vines I could find from the pillars at the front of the temple to construct a sort of harness. Using it, I can tie several vines around the statues to secure them and then slip my arms through two other straps. This
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MLAAS - Chapter 6
Chapter 6 - The Void
I could see nothing. Not the walls, not the floor, not the girl right across from me. Even if I could have moved, I wouldn't have been able to see my hand in front of my face. It was there in that black void of a basement that I hit my lowest point. Shortly after the lights came off, my mind began turning back to the same thoughts as the first night: never moving again, never seeing my family again, never being free. However, as time progressed and I thought more about it, the worse it got.
My parents will never know what became of me. They'll suffer through life never knowing what became of their own flesh and blood, n
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MLAAS - Ch 8
Chapter 8 - Uncooperative
It only lasted a brief moment before everything fell silent. If my heart could still beat, it would have been beating hard enough for the whole room to hear. I knew the girl was now just a statue, but surely not composed like all of us in this dark basement.
Finally, the silence broke as I heard the distant murmurs of the lady in black talking to her latest victim. Soon after, I heard footsteps growing ever louder. Then, everything was bright. I could hear her talking clearly now.
"I tried to tell you to keep focused, but no. You couldn't. Now you're stuck like this. There's no way the museum will take you now."
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Nicely done and a good start, but just FYI, it's Irvine not Irving.