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Recursion

Menacingly, they stepped towards him. He had no choice. If he stayed here, he’d be just as dead. But if he took a chance, and stepped through the vortex…

He walked through, and found himself in the same room, looking at his exact duplicate looking towards the vortex.

“Oh no,” he said, more to himself than to his doppelgänger.

His double turned around. He was, for lack of a better word, shocked. “What the Hell?”

“There’s no time for that,” he said, stepping forward. “They’re about to come through. We have to…”

Having followed him through the vortex, the two sinister agents came from behind him and snapped his neck before he’d even had a chance to turn around.

All three of the men looked down at the body. The man, looking down at his own dead body, was terrified. Who were they? What did they want?

Then he looked at the agents, and they at him. Menacingly, they stepped towards him. He had no choice. If he stayed here, he’d be just as dead. But if he took a chance, and stepped through the vortex…

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