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Ack! What to Do?! What to Do?! Either Way, People Die

Ahh! What should I do? I don’t wanna die!

I’m surprised someone didn’t do this sort of thing sooner. I would if I wasn’t so scared to.

What is going to happen to the people who got called down?

“So what are we going to do?” Eliza began.
“I say that we send the people down. That way, if they die, everyone else won’t die.”
“You’re just saying that because you aren’t one of them Abbie! I bet if you were called down you wouldn’t want to go!” Leslie cried. That made Abbie shut up. I just sat there, face white from fear, especially because I was sorta getting the fear from every other student in the school hitting me as well.

I felt sick.

“Look, maybe the people they are calling down aren’t going to die? What if it’s the other way around?” Brent thought aloud. I closed my eyes passively, sucked in a ragged breathe, “No,” Everyone looked at me. I raised the volume of my voice, “Whoever gets called down dies.” I then felt the fear bubble over as tears…

Did I mention I was called down too?

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