After a close call with a patrol, I got out of there and
started the long march south, now worried I wasn’t going
to make the rendezvous on the 14th day. Thankfully the
remaining sites I had to visit were easily observed and
poorly defended. Things seemed to be going smoothly
until I stumbled into a minefield. I’d grown too
comfortable and stopped being as cautious, like a fool! I
detonated one of the explosives by accident and injured
my hand, but worst of all, put the entire area on high
alert. I hope they thought it was a wild animal that set
it off. None of the other outposts I passed afterwards
seemed to be awaiting attack. I think I got away with it...
Heading south again I found a single soldier patrolling
alone out in the middle of nowhere. Mostly the soldiers
stuck to their designated posts, so this was well outside
the norm. Why was he here? And why on his own?
I stalked them for a little while, matching my footsteps to
theirs just a few paces behind until I could finally make
my way around them, undetected.
On the 11th day I arrived back at Spugmay Keep.
I hadn’t anticipated being early, and made a brief scouting
hike to the town to the north, which was as poorly
defended and unremarkable as the others. When the
helicopter arrived at dawn, I climbed aboard without
hesitation, but started to feel a little wistful as the
landscape rolled away beneath me.
Not for my two weeks in this place, but for what I
thought it might be when I first saw it years ago: a
bustling, complex beast full of life and the unexpected.
Instead it’s a lifeless rock, populated by robots that pose
about as much threat to the boss as shrapnel to his face.
He’s going to have no trouble here. Hell, I think he’s
going to have to make his own fun to get any kind of
challenge or tension out of the place. Now, if you’ll excuse
me, I really need that shower. Flaming Buffalo, out.I’D GROWN COMFORTABLE
AND STOPPED BEING AS
CAUTIOUS, LIKE A FOOL
EXTRA LIFE
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Literary reference,
standing by.