Synthetic Journal -- Day: 10,911
Time: 03:45
Zone: Sustainable Growth

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Dark:
Dim, grease covered light bulbs held in place by metal cages (to restrain them from fleeing?). Always a stretch of darkness between the light from one bulb and the next. Occaissionally, where sections of ramp were bolted together, slivers of light shot up from beneath us.

Long:
In the dark you could barely tell that the tunnel curved slowly to the right as it made its slow descent. Nadja moved quickly despite the darkness. I could barely keep up. Somewhere far behind us the slow moving doors clanged shut.

Loud:
Exhaust fans, pneumatic lifts, compressed air, random fits of distant thunder that hummed through the soles of my feet as we raced down the ramp.

Strong:
This may have been the first time since infancy that I have been subjected to an unfiltered assault on my olfactory senses: oil, grease, hydraulic fluid, steam, mildew, over-cooked capacitors, ozone.

Creepy:
I kept thinking there were three of us and found it jarring when I'd realize that Nadja and I were the only ones there. "The NeverMind." she said at one point, reading my thoughts.


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