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emotions were going to get a real workout
in this place.
At least this sounded like positive news for Mum.
‘Secondly, as I said earlier, we have all been specially selected and
recruited for this mission, but we have been trained individually to
maintain the integrity and the security of the task. We do not yet know
what’s going on and we will not receive a full briefing for another 8
hours.’
Okay, so far so good, she still hasn’t mentioned anything like
‘imminent peril’ or ‘global annihilation’.
‘Thirdly and finally Dan,’ she said, as I noticed that the technique of
using my name a lot in sentences had a strangely reassuring effect on
me.
‘You and your family were not supposed to be here when the sirens
went off, only essential personnel had been tasked to be present at the
time the sirens sounded, and even we didn’t know that everybody else
in the bunker at that time was going to be part of the mission team.’
‘Here’s the strange thing that we’re trying to figure out though,’ she
said, sounding much more serious now.
‘We checked your biometrics when you were in the MedLab, and
although your family aren’t supposed to be here, you have full access
rights on the database. In short, you were meant to be here.’
Within The Darkness
Although many, many lives have been lost, this is not the worst it
could be. Just as many lives have been saved by the actions of governments
throughout the world. It’s not usual for the global community to work together in this way.
But the consequences of not doing so would have been unthinkable.
Even places like North Korea, where the leaders and politics are
caricatured every day in the Western press, and ostracised from the
international community, even they are complicit in this. Yes, this global action has already saved thousands of lives, possibly
even millions. And most importantly it will save more lives.
Not only now, but in generations to come.
Every military leader understands the term ‘collateral damage’.
Deaths, injuries, destruction … lives lost, lives ruined. It is all acceptable, so long as the final objective is attained.
When that objective is the survival of humanity itself, any military
leader would understand that any ‘collateral damage’ is going to be
pretty high.
Beyond The Doors
She was supposed to have been gone for just a few minutes.
She had to be quick for Harriet’s sake, she was still a bit clingy for her
mum. But better to go alone, she didn’t want a scene from Harriet as they
passed the sweets and souvenirs in the ticket area.
For goodness sake, the car was only parked just beyond the innocent
looking cottage where they’d entered the bunker from the surface just
an hour earlier. 5 minutes tops.
She’d promised the kids that they could have ‘tech time’ in the bunker
cafe.
Thank goodness they had free wi-fi in the bunker.
Imagine, a holiday cottage with no wi-fi, who even does that these
days? She was supposed to be one of the ‘responsible adults,’ but even she was getting grouchy without the constant broadband speeds that they
all enjoyed at home. And to get a phone signal from the holiday cottage, you had to go
upstairs onto the landing and stand by the window. Sometimes even she had to do a double check to make sure that she
hadn’t been transported back to pre-Jacobite Scotland.
She had to remember Dan’s phone too, he’d specifically asked her.
At her age, and she was only in her late thirties, if she didn’t write it
down or keep chanting it to herself, she forgot it.
‘Laptop, Harriet’s juice and Dan’s phone,’ she kept saying to herself.
‘Laptop, Harriet’s juice and Dan’s phone,’ she repeated as she stepped
out of the cottage door into the car park. The first thing that struck her was how overcast it had become.
More than overcast, the sky looked thunderous.
She’d never seen anything like this before, the weather had been
in this place.
At least this sounded like positive news for Mum.
‘Secondly, as I said earlier, we have all been specially selected and
recruited for this mission, but we have been trained individually to
maintain the integrity and the security of the task. We do not yet know
what’s going on and we will not receive a full briefing for another 8
hours.’
Okay, so far so good, she still hasn’t mentioned anything like
‘imminent peril’ or ‘global annihilation’.
‘Thirdly and finally Dan,’ she said, as I noticed that the technique of
using my name a lot in sentences had a strangely reassuring effect on
me.
‘You and your family were not supposed to be here when the sirens
went off, only essential personnel had been tasked to be present at the
time the sirens sounded, and even we didn’t know that everybody else
in the bunker at that time was going to be part of the mission team.’
‘Here’s the strange thing that we’re trying to figure out though,’ she
said, sounding much more serious now.
‘We checked your biometrics when you were in the MedLab, and
although your family aren’t supposed to be here, you have full access
rights on the database. In short, you were meant to be here.’
Within The Darkness
Although many, many lives have been lost, this is not the worst it
could be. Just as many lives have been saved by the actions of governments
throughout the world. It’s not usual for the global community to work together in this way.
But the consequences of not doing so would have been unthinkable.
Even places like North Korea, where the leaders and politics are
caricatured every day in the Western press, and ostracised from the
international community, even they are complicit in this. Yes, this global action has already saved thousands of lives, possibly
even millions. And most importantly it will save more lives.
Not only now, but in generations to come.
Every military leader understands the term ‘collateral damage’.
Deaths, injuries, destruction … lives lost, lives ruined. It is all acceptable, so long as the final objective is attained.
When that objective is the survival of humanity itself, any military
leader would understand that any ‘collateral damage’ is going to be
pretty high.
Beyond The Doors
She was supposed to have been gone for just a few minutes.
She had to be quick for Harriet’s sake, she was still a bit clingy for her
mum. But better to go alone, she didn’t want a scene from Harriet as they
passed the sweets and souvenirs in the ticket area.
For goodness sake, the car was only parked just beyond the innocent
looking cottage where they’d entered the bunker from the surface just
an hour earlier. 5 minutes tops.
She’d promised the kids that they could have ‘tech time’ in the bunker
cafe.
Thank goodness they had free wi-fi in the bunker.
Imagine, a holiday cottage with no wi-fi, who even does that these
days? She was supposed to be one of the ‘responsible adults,’ but even she was getting grouchy without the constant broadband speeds that they
all enjoyed at home. And to get a phone signal from the holiday cottage, you had to go
upstairs onto the landing and stand by the window. Sometimes even she had to do a double check to make sure that she
hadn’t been transported back to pre-Jacobite Scotland.
She had to remember Dan’s phone too, he’d specifically asked her.
At her age, and she was only in her late thirties, if she didn’t write it
down or keep chanting it to herself, she forgot it.
‘Laptop, Harriet’s juice and Dan’s phone,’ she kept saying to herself.
‘Laptop, Harriet’s juice and Dan’s phone,’ she repeated as she stepped
out of the cottage door into the car park. The first thing that struck her was how overcast it had become.
More than overcast, the sky looked thunderous.
She’d never seen anything like this before, the weather had been
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