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  Speaker 1: I have always loved the calm one gets from fishing alone,
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  Speaker 1: so when I decided to spend a weekend by pine Lake,
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  Speaker 1: I was psyched. I packed all my gear and drove
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  Speaker 1: for hours until finally setting up camp in a secluded
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  Speaker 1: spot by the water. The sun had set. I cast
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  Speaker 1: my line as it painted the sky with brilliant shades
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  Speaker 1: of orange and pink, Ready for a perfect night of relaxation,
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  Speaker 1: darkness closed around me, so familiar that it felt like
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  Speaker 1: breathing crickets chirping in the rustle of leaves moving in
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  Speaker 1: the wind. I sat there, lost in thought, waiting for
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  Speaker 1: a bite. When I heard crunching through the brush footsteps.
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  Speaker 1: I turned, jerking my head towards the sound, and saw
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  Speaker 1: a man step out from behind the trees. Mind about Junia,
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  Speaker 1: he asked, his voice warm but with a certain awkward edge.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I said, trying to make myself sound nonchalant.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't think anyone else was out here. Most people
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  Speaker 1: avoid this, he said, sitting down about a few feet
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  Speaker 1: from me. He looked rugged, fiftyish or so, with a
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  Speaker 1: scruffy beard and a worn flannel shirt. Name's Dave Ethan,
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  Speaker 1: I said, feeling a small shiver of discomfort rise up
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  Speaker 1: in me. We talked as we fished, but I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: shake the feeling that Dave was watching me, his eyes
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  Speaker 1: flicking back toward the tree line more often than not.
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  Speaker 1: What are you looking for? I finally asked, trying to
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  Speaker 1: sound lighthearted. Oh, just keeping an eye out. You'd be
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  Speaker 1: surprised when lurks in these woods, he said, his tone
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  Speaker 1: suddenly serious. What do you mean, I asked, my belly
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  Speaker 1: nodding up. Dave leans in. You know, things happen out here,
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  Speaker 1: he says. People just disappear. My heart thumps a little faster,
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  Speaker 1: like who Joe McAllister? He says he went out one
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  Speaker 1: night to fish and never came home. Not a sign
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  Speaker 1: of him, just his gear. He looks at me with
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  Speaker 1: a narrowed eye. You're out here alone, Ethan. You sure
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  Speaker 1: that's smart. Look, I'm just trying to enjoy some time
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  Speaker 1: away from everything. I'm fine, I said, trying to sound convincing,
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  Speaker 1: but his words bit into me. Fine are just lucky
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  Speaker 1: so far. His smile didn't quite reach his eyes. The
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  Speaker 1: lake doesn't give peace, it takes. That was it for me.
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  Speaker 1: I felt a chill run down my spine. I think
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna head back now, Not yet, he kept insisting.
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  Speaker 1: Listen to what I'm saying. The lake is alive, it
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  Speaker 1: knows you are here. I made an attempt to brush
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  Speaker 1: it off, but the air started to thicken with tension. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: I need to go to it yourself, he shrugged. But
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  Speaker 1: remember it is not the fish you should fear. Pushing
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  Speaker 1: the crawling feeling in my stomach aside. I repacked my
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  Speaker 1: belongings and continued leaving. Woods were darker, reaching out with shadow,
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  Speaker 1: as if unsettling me further with every step that took
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  Speaker 1: me away from Dave and his creepy, unsettling aura. I
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  Speaker 1: reached for my truck keys and ran from my truck.
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  Speaker 1: My heart was pounding. I glanced back once more, and
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  Speaker 1: there he was, standing across the lake, once more, his
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  Speaker 1: unsettling smile plastered on his face. I tore out there,
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  Speaker 1: my pulse pounding in my ears. The winding road back
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  Speaker 1: to civilization seemed endless. I glanced in the rear view
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  Speaker 1: mirror periodically, half expecting to see him chasing after me,
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  Speaker 1: but the road behind was empty. Just as I managed
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  Speaker 1: to breathe again, I heard a clatter from the back seat.
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  Speaker 1: I looked around. Time stopped for me. My tackle box
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  Speaker 1: was there, open wide, but I had packed it on
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  Speaker 1: the shore of the lake. It was then that my
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  Speaker 1: cell phone rang. I picked it and found a text
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  Speaker 1: message from an unknown number. You shouldn't have left. Cold
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  Speaker 1: sweat broke out on my forehead. I typed back, who
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  Speaker 1: is this? Another message came through, I warned you. Fear
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  Speaker 1: flooded me. I pulled over to the side of the road,
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  Speaker 1: gasping for air. I looked around me, half expecting Dave
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  Speaker 1: to be lurking in the shadows, but I saw only me,
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  Speaker 1: the woods, and the flickering headlights. Then the reality of
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  Speaker 1: things smacked me right between the eyes. The knife, the
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  Speaker 1: way Dave had talked about the lake, his warnings, the
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  Speaker 1: way he had been watching me. A dread began to
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  Speaker 1: rise up in my body. I hadn't even had time
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  Speaker 1: to think when in my rear view mirror I saw
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  Speaker 1: something A man in the middle of the road, waving
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  Speaker 1: a hand with something shiny. It was Dave. I slammed
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  Speaker 1: on the brakes, my heart pounding, I backed up slowly,
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  Speaker 1: ready to make my escape. Just then Dave took a
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  Speaker 1: step closer and with his hand raised, yelled out, you've
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  Speaker 1: forgot something. As he tossed something into the open window.
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  Speaker 1: It splat thudded into the passenger seat. I froze, realizing
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  Speaker 1: it was a bloodied fish knife. Now you know what
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  Speaker 1: I meant, he shouted aloud in the stillness of the air.
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  Speaker 1: Shaking my hands, I picked and looked at the dark
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  Speaker 1: red stains on it. It was a warning. No, it
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  Speaker 1: was a message harder than any blow. The realization struck me,
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  Speaker 1: and quite brutally. Somehow I had stumbled into much darker
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  Speaker 1: territory than I ever imagined. Panic ran through my veins.
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  Speaker 1: I floored the gas and at the last minute swerved
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  Speaker 1: past Dave to get back on the road. As my
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  Speaker 1: mind raised, I couldn't shake the feeling that there was
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  Speaker 1: something of menace observing me, far deadlier than I could appreciate.
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  Speaker 1: I was getting closer to town and saw a cop car
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  Speaker 1: pulled over on the side of the road. Not even thinking,
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  Speaker 1: I swerved over and rolled down my window. Well there's
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  Speaker 1: a guy back at Pine Lake. He's acting weirder and
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  Speaker 1: I think he's dangerous. The officer looked at me in shock.
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  Speaker 1: Calm down, What did he do? I gulped some air
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  Speaker 1: in preparation. I tried to get my voice together. He
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  Speaker 1: was talking about people who vanish. I think he's involved
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  Speaker 1: in something bad. You should check out, I called out.
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  Speaker 1: The cop nodded in concerned. Fine, let's put an end
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  Speaker 1: to this. I felt myself relaxed as they sped off
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  Speaker 1: to the lake. I continued to pace up and down
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  Speaker 1: on the roadside, trying to calm myself down. They took
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  Speaker 1: what seemed like hours, but the officers shortly returned. They
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  Speaker 1: seemed somber. We found am Ethan. One of them said,
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  Speaker 1: we apprehended Dave, and it seems he's not acting alone.
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  Speaker 1: There are suggestions of a bigger event, a couple of
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  Speaker 1: missing people in the locality. I felt my heart literally sink.
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  Speaker 1: It was a situation that was very deep. They were
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  Speaker 1: not just dealing with one creepy guy. Rather, they had
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  Speaker 1: discovered a massive human trafficking rain which utilized the lake
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  Speaker 1: as a lure. They even take their cell numbers from
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  Speaker 1: the entries. Thank you, I said, feeling relief and fear
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  Speaker 1: mix in my voice. I did not know. As I
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  Speaker 1: waited for the officers to take my statement, my phone
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  Speaker 1: buzzed for the third time, I reached over and pulled
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  Speaker 1: it out. My stomach fell. The message was simple. I
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  Speaker 1: read it in silence. You think you're safe, You have
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  Speaker 1: no idea what we're capable of. A chill ran through me.
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  Speaker 1: The operation wasn't just about Dave. It had been a
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  Speaker 1: network far beyond my worst fears. They had eyes and
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  Speaker 1: ears everywhere, and still they watched me. A year after
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  Speaker 1: our dad's death, I stood on the pier with my
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  Speaker 1: brother Noah. We had spent many summers there going on
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  Speaker 1: fishing trips with Dad, but last year he went alone
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  Speaker 1: and never returned. And his boat was intact, so was
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  Speaker 1: his gear, but he just vanished, never to be seen again.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think it's still there? Do you mean the
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  Speaker 1: fishing spot? No, the rod, the one Dad lost that summer.
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  Speaker 1: My heart sank. You really think it's still somewhere there?
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  Speaker 1: Why not? Let's check? Reluctantly I followed him to the
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  Speaker 1: rocky shore, feeling a chill as I watched the waves
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  Speaker 1: lap at the stones. We crept forward for about an hour,
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  Speaker 1: The slick rocks beneath our feet slippery, but curiosity kept
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  Speaker 1: us going. Look. Noah bent down, gripping a tangle of seaweed.
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  Speaker 1: There's something My heart raised as I squinted. Sticking out
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  Speaker 1: of the green mass was the unmistakable handle of a
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  Speaker 1: fishing rod. Together we pulled, and with a final tug,
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  Speaker 1: the rod broke free, revealing its length and something shiny.
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  Speaker 1: It's baited. Dad hated removing baits. We pulled, but it
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  Speaker 1: was stuck. A fish was probably caught in it. Figuring
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  Speaker 1: it was Dad's last catch, we pulled harder and suddenly
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  Speaker 1: the rod came up, along with something else. My stomach dropped.
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  Speaker 1: Attached to the rod was a blooded, lifeless body. I
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  Speaker 1: stumbled back, panic rising in my throat. Noah dropped the rod,
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  Speaker 1: eyes wide, What the hell is that? Before we could react,
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  Speaker 1: a familiar voice seeped through the salty air. Oem, Noah,
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  Speaker 1: help me. I froze, disbelief flooding my senses. No way,
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  Speaker 1: is that Dad. He's still there. We have to help him. No,
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  Speaker 1: it can't be, I shouted, fear bubbling up. But Noah
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  Speaker 1: didn't listen. He stepped closer. He needs us, Liam, We
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  Speaker 1: can't leave him. Listen it sounds wrong. We need to
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  Speaker 1: get out of here, but my words fell on deaf ears.
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  Speaker 1: The voice grew more insistent. Help me, I'm trapped. I
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  Speaker 1: felt the sand shift under my feet as the sea
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  Speaker 1: came alive. Noah, this isn't safe, but he was already
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  Speaker 1: stepping forward. Noah stop. I lunged, fear gripping me as
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  Speaker 1: I saw the waves swirling around him as he went
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  Speaker 1: deeper into the water. Dad needs me. Suddenly, the voice twisted,
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  Speaker 1: becoming something darker, filled with a sinister edge that sent
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  Speaker 1: chills down my spine. The water bubbled as a dark
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  Speaker 1: shape began to arise, something ancient and horrifying. Get away
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  Speaker 1: from the water. I slapped him hard across the face,
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  Speaker 1: and he blinked, confusion replacing the trans What the what's happening?
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  Speaker 1: It's not that, it's something else, the voice roared. The
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  Speaker 1: waves suddenly grew taller, and I saw the creature's grotesque
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  Speaker 1: form just beneath the surface. The sand crumbled beneath us,
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  Speaker 1: and it became hard to pull ourselves back to the shore.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, I screamed, what is that thing? I didn't
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  Speaker 1: have time to answer. I pulled him back as the
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  Speaker 1: creature surged forth, revealing a massive scales and teeth and
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  Speaker 1: insatiable hunger in its red eyes. Could it be dead.
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  Speaker 1: It's lying, it's trying to take you. In that moment,
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  Speaker 1: I knew what we were up against. A siren, a
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  Speaker 1: creature luring us with false voices, an enchanting yet lethal
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  Speaker 1: creature the sailors of our fishing town had warned for
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  Speaker 1: many years. Sirens were often depicted at as beautiful women
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  Speaker 1: with irresistible voices. They lured sailors by mimicking their loved ones,
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  Speaker 1: only to reveal their sinister nature. Noah, I yelled again,
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  Speaker 1: pulling him toward the shore, but the tides pulled harder
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  Speaker 1: and Noah was still entranced. With a roar, the creature
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  Speaker 1: surged forth, revealing his true monstrous form. Noah, we need
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  Speaker 1: to go now, what if there really is dad? I
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  Speaker 1: reached for The waves surged, dragging asunder. The creature's voice
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  Speaker 1: echoed in my mind, layered with sinister laughter. And that
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  Speaker 1: is when the sea water took over us. That is
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  Speaker 1: when I felt a cold grip on my ankle. My
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  Speaker 1: pulse quickened. This was the last straw. As I struggled,
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  Speaker 1: the water pulled me down, swirling around my legs like
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  Speaker 1: grasping hands. I fought back, but it felt like swimming
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  Speaker 1: through the sand, A knee length sea water was suddenly
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  Speaker 1: many feet deep. I looked back and saw the creature.
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  Speaker 1: Its form grotesque, an amalgamation of fish and human, its
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  Speaker 1: eyes glimmering with a predatory gleam. It let out a
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  Speaker 1: laugh that echoed in my mind, a cacophony of despair.
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  Speaker 1: My brother was already unconscious. The creature finally lunged towards us,
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  Speaker 1: its mouth wide with razorlike teeth. I pulled away, my
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  Speaker 1: heart racing, but the grip of the seam was relentless.
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  Speaker 1: It dragged me back toward the maw of the creature,
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  Speaker 1: the very thing I had tried to escape. That is
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  Speaker 1: when my feet found support of a hard rock underneath.
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  Speaker 1: The friction gave me hope, and I pulled myself and
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  Speaker 1: my brother out with everything that I could gather. We
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  Speaker 1: emerged on the shore and I dragged him further in
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  Speaker 1: the sand, just as that creature leaped out and tried
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  Speaker 1: to bite at his feet. But something told me that
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  Speaker 1: he couldn't stay on land. As I pulled my brother
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  Speaker 1: to safety, the creature looked at me with stillness. Then
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  Speaker 1: it screamed and let back into the water. Perhaps that
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  Speaker 1: is what my father met as well. I just hope
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  Speaker 1: he found peace. We drove for hours, the five of us, Ryan, Jessica, Mark,
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  Speaker 1: Lisa and I. We'd seen a YouTube documentary about the
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  Speaker 1: infamous Suicide Lake by a quaint town. They said the
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  Speaker 1: lake was cursed it drew people who were struggling into
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  Speaker 1: its arms. But we were there for the rare salmon
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  Speaker 1: rumored to thrive in its depths, which grew thrice and
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  Speaker 1: size of normal fishes and bled black blood. Come on,
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  Speaker 1: it's just a lake, Ryan laughed as we arrived. What's
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  Speaker 1: the worst that could happen? I stepped out the crisp air,
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  Speaker 1: biting it my skin, but my curiosity was peaked. The
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  Speaker 1: lake stretched before us, its crystal clear waters reflecting the
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  Speaker 1: emerging stars. We set up our gear on the wooden
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  Speaker 1: dock before hopping into a rowing boat that was standing
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  Speaker 1: there and headed in. As we cast our lines, I
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  Speaker 1: felt a strange thing move from under us in the waters,
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  Speaker 1: but I didn't think much of it. Hours passed and
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  Speaker 1: we began to catch salmon, each one bigger than the last.
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  Speaker 1: Then Mark, bursting with excitement, shouted, I got something big.
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  Speaker 1: He reeled in his line, but it was too much.
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  Speaker 1: The other boys joined him as well and pulled, but
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  Speaker 1: confusion replaced our excitement. The line felt heavier for any fish.
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  Speaker 1: What the hell is that? The boys hoisted the weight
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  Speaker 1: out of the water, and we froze. It wasn't a fish,
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  Speaker 1: It was a hand, pale, bloated and eerily still. Drop it,
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  Speaker 1: get it back in the water. Mark stumbled backward, hands
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  Speaker 1: slipping from his grasp and splashing back into the lake.
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  Speaker 1: Panic rippled through us. Let's get out of here. I
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  Speaker 1: don't feel good. No, we need to know what's going on.
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  Speaker 1: There's gotta be more down there. Before I could respond,
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  Speaker 1: the water around us began to bubble and churn, as
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  Speaker 1: if something stirred beneath. We scrambled into the boat. I
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  Speaker 1: picked up the oars, my hand shaking as I rode
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  Speaker 1: frantically toward shore. Others jumped as well. As we reached
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the lake. I glanced back and my
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  Speaker 1: blood ran cold. A figure was swimming toward us at
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  Speaker 1: a high speed, its head barely above the water. Its
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  Speaker 1: long hair floated like tendrils, and its dark, endless eyes
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  Speaker 1: were fixed on us. Faster, I screamed, Mark and Ryan
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  Speaker 1: paddled harder, but the figure kept pace. I noticed the
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  Speaker 1: figure's features. They were hauntingly familiar. It looked like Jessica,
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  Speaker 1: but twisted its mouth, stretching into a malicious grin. But
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  Speaker 1: then everything went silent. Suddenly, Lisa screamed. I whipped around
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  Speaker 1: to see the figure. It vanished, but the water churned
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  Speaker 1: violently beneath us. The boat rocked and I lost my balance,
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  Speaker 1: splashing into the frigid water. I gasped the cold enveloping me,
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  Speaker 1: and my heart raced as something brust against my leg.
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  Speaker 1: I kicked wildly, breaking the surface and spotted the boat
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  Speaker 1: rocking dangerously. As I reached for the edge, hands erumped
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  Speaker 1: it from the water, gripping my arms and dragging me down. No.
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  Speaker 1: As I was pulled under, darkness surrounded me, But just
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  Speaker 1: before everything faded to black, I heard voices calling out
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  Speaker 1: to me from the depths, like an echo. Join us.
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  Speaker 1: Suddenly someone grabbed my arm and pulled me up. Ryan
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  Speaker 1: had jumped in. We kicked hard, struggling towards our boat,
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  Speaker 1: and just as we reached for the side, something surged
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  Speaker 1: beneath me. The water erupted in a frothy splash, and
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  Speaker 1: I felt a tug pulling me back down. No, I shouted,
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  Speaker 1: my fingers brushing against the edge of the boat as
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  Speaker 1: I was dragged under again. As I descended into darkness,
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  Speaker 1: a hand shot out from below, clutching my ankle. I
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  Speaker 1: looked down and gasped. It was Jessica's hand, but her
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  Speaker 1: face was twisted, eyes wide and unblinking. I cried desperation,
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  Speaker 1: clawing at my throat, but Jessica's hand wouldn't release me,
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  Speaker 1: her eyes locked onto mine, pleading yet warning, join us.
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  Speaker 1: The voices echoed again, the words reverberating through the water.
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  Speaker 1: I fought against Jessica's grip, but the shadowy figure drew,
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  Speaker 1: kept pulling me, its grin stretching impossibly wide, revealing rows
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  Speaker 1: of glistening teeth. Suddenly, just as I was about to
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  Speaker 1: slip under for the last time, the creature left me
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  Speaker 1: as five salmons and fell from our boat. I swam
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  Speaker 1: furiously toward the surface. I gasped for air, the chilling
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  Speaker 1: waters lapping around me. As I glanced back, I clung
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  Speaker 1: to the boat, my heart pounding. My friends pulled me up,
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  Speaker 1: saw the fish back, threw it all back. They followed
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  Speaker 1: my instructions, scared We looked at that creature, its face
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  Speaker 1: rising out of the water, but as we dumped the
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  Speaker 1: salmon's back, it disappeared. We gave everything that we had
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  Speaker 1: and pulled the boat back to shore. I ran to
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  Speaker 1: our car, crying, and I did not wait to look back.
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  Speaker 1: I almost died that day, and I cannot step into
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  Speaker 1: water again since