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Jacob left the old warehouse and made his way back to the sector sixteen compound.

Sector sixteen was one of the remaining living areas that survived the war. There are rumors that say the great builders of the last era had planed to create fifty compounds, but only thirty-three were fully functional before the project was mysteriously abandoned, and now it was anyone's guess how many remained. Each compound was built in a central point surrounded by the markets and externally built districts that combined formed the cities. The compounds are huge subterranean structures, Jacob had no idea how big they actually were, he had never ventured to the lowest levels but to put into perspective, his designated living area was located on level forty-six section eight sub-section nineteen door eighty-three. But he wasn't going to his area, he was going to visit Jason and Teresa Bellfast.
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Jacob wanted to run but his body was paralyzed. The four figures looked at each other and then one of them nodded and with out a word the other three walked forward, heading directly to the shriveled dead body.
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The whiskey wasn't enough to get rid of that horrible taste Jacob Syre had in his mouth. He was shaken, tired and bleeding but he was still alive. Cheers to that. He took a second swallow; much larger than the first.

A deep breath and a long sigh. He was calming down. Now he was looking to the ground, the spot where he had just thrown up. He wiped his mouth with the dirty dirty rag that he kept tucked into his jeans. Calm, but not quite calm enough, he then swallowed what was left in the flask and tossed it away.

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