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Republican Commissar: As a final advice, follow your instinct. If something, anything [color=darkred]feels unnervingly wrong[/color] about a patient, further investigation is highly likely to save your lives.
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Republican Commissar: As you all know, containment protocol's safety rules forbid you to leave the premises of this floor. You have been assigned rooms to rest in between shifts. A meeting shall be held here every morning.
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Republican Commissar: As you all know, containment protocol's safety rules forbid you to leave the premises of this floor. You have been assigned rooms to rest in between shifts. A meeting shall be held here every morning to keep you updated.
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Republican Commissar: Good luck, doctors. The Republic shelters.
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Twitching facial movements and agitated micro-gestures. The anxiety was deafening across the silence. A grotesque truth, mentally repressed until now by those who had suspected it, had been made clear to everyone in the room.
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Those who came before us were no more. We were not the first, and probably not the last. How many days were we expected to do our work ? How many days were we expected to survive ?
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Small guidebooks were swiftly distributed around the table. Printed on the first pages were the Abnormality Rules, to be read and reread ad nauseam until seared into one's mind.
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Twitching facial movements and agitated whispers. The anxiety was deafening across the silence. A grotesque truth, mentally repressed by those who had suspected it, had been made clear to everyone in the room.
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Those before us were no more. We were not the first, and we would not be the last. How many days were we expected to do our work ? How many days were we expected to survive ?
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I was the first to stand up and leave the room, brimming with a restless blend of nervous anticipation and unspoken fear.
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I could still turn back and leave. I should. A part of me was screaming for it. But my legs kept on mechanically walking down the austere hallway, leading me to my assigned screening desk.
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It was too late. I already knew too much, and was worth too little. Or so I told myself.
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It was too late. I already knew too much, and was worth too little. Or so I tried to tell myself.
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=> END
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