[ Benny squints at the paper, the words barely legible through fogged glass and rising water. He can make it out, though - barely, and he huffs a choked laugh. Figures.
He holds up a finger - one second - then sloshes his way back toward the desk like a man marching through molasses. The waters getting pretty high by now, licking at his hips, rising to just under his ribs and every drawer he opens sends it lapping higher.
There’s nothing in the first two, just more papers with his guilt painted in ink all over them. In the third, though, he finds a soggy binder, thick with pages, the laminated cover peeling but intact. Weird symbols stare up at him like they know his name, and he figures this has gotta be the one. Nothing else comes close to looking like a 'code'.
He doesn’t pause to read, just drags himself back over to the windo and lifts it, slapping it against the glass. He points to the six weird figures, each one strange and sharp and almost alien. He jabs a finger toward the back of the building again, urgency in the motion now, because that water? It's mid chest and rising fast with the panic that's humming deep in his bones, racing through his undead veins. ]
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He holds up a finger - one second - then sloshes his way back toward the desk like a man marching through molasses. The waters getting pretty high by now, licking at his hips, rising to just under his ribs and every drawer he opens sends it lapping higher.
There’s nothing in the first two, just more papers with his guilt painted in ink all over them. In the third, though, he finds a soggy binder, thick with pages, the laminated cover peeling but intact. Weird symbols stare up at him like they know his name, and he figures this has gotta be the one. Nothing else comes close to looking like a 'code'.
He doesn’t pause to read, just drags himself back over to the windo and lifts it, slapping it against the glass. He points to the six weird figures, each one strange and sharp and almost alien. He jabs a finger toward the back of the building again, urgency in the motion now, because that water? It's mid chest and rising fast with the panic that's humming deep in his bones, racing through his undead veins. ]