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Submitted to Contest #292
Hold the entrance.Hold the entrance.Hold the entrance. The singular thought goes through my mind over and over again as the sun approaches the horizon. It had already been seven hours since Garos had entered the gate with his cadre of oncherca killers in one last ditch effort to disconnect the oncherca hive from our world. For seven hours I have been fighting with the thirty-seven that were left behind to hold the beasts back while their queen hopefully perishes. In those seven hours we have been reduced to only nineteen, with eight dead and...
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