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Into the dark

Chapter 3

Everything that follows happens in slow motion.

Rosalind crumples to the ground.

Blood blossoms from the center of her chest, spreading across her pale, freckled skin and darkening the fabric of her dress.

On the screen, the grate slides open as the flames finally burn out. Someone – Tim thinks it’s Officer Juarez – dives into the tank, arms wrapping around Lucy’s limp body and lifting her toward the surface. At least three other pairs of arms reach in to pull her out, and then help Juarez out as well.

He distantly hears Angela radioing it in, her voice in his ear and then growing louder as she appears in front of him. Gently, she pries the gun from his hand and then guides him away from Rosalind's dead body. She says something – the words IA and shooting and Grey is all he really registers – before beginning to secure the scene.

And then Tim is left staring at an empty screen, with nothing to do except pray that he pulled the trigger in time.

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