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This city is sinking

This isn’t possible! She can’t be doing this to me!

I stumble down the hallway, falling sideways into the wall.

What a horrible place to die. I think to myself, staring at the bare white walls that seem to be sucking me into them.

The whole world seems tilted and strange. Other, more sure-footed people stumble past me trying to find a way out. I can’t find a way out until I find her.

Wait! Is that her up ahead? “JEANIE!” I yell as the girl turns a corner. Rushing up to that corner I hurl myself around the edge and there she is holding a young boy in her arms. It’s not her though, just some girl who resembles Jeanie from behind.

I look back around the corner toward my cabin, but she’s still not down that hallway.

How could she do this? How could she leave me at a time like this?

The wall to my right jerks away from me and then I fall into it thinking to myself Is this even possible? What can cause a cruise ship to sink?

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