One-Sided: Stories in the Silence of a Phone Call

the code is 7309 this is way more intense than that pilot you told me about the one from last week who landed blind but the principle is the same one step at a time okay just one step at a time good you're in now lock the door behind you gently don't let the ball click perfect okay you're in the main archive room it's going to be pitch black don't use your phone light your eyes will adjust to your left there are three rows of filing cabinets you need to get to the end of the second row count them with your hand are you there okay at the end of that row on

the floor there's a ventilation grate the bolts are rusted you should be able to kick it out try not to make a okay okay stay down don't move just listen what do you hear nothing are you sure okay okay i believe you my feed shows no alerts but my feed has been wrong before you have to be my eyes and ears from now on absolute silence got it good get into the vent it's gonna be a tight squeeze feet first alright you're moving i'm tracking your heat signature it's faint but you're moving you need to go about 20 feet you'll feel a junction where the duct splits you need to go right towards the sound of the generator

i know it's loud that's the point it covers you keep going what what is it a block shine your phone light on it for one second just one it's just a collapsed section you can't get through damn it okay okay think go back to the junction stop stop moving there's a patrol they're in the archive room do not make a sound he's right under you just stop breathing

okay he's gone he's moving on you were invisible see you were just a draft of cold air alright new plan go back to the junction take the left fork it's longer but it's clear it'll bring you out in the west stairwell it's an emergency exit the door will be alarmed no listen it will be alarmed but i'm going to kill the power to this whole block the second you open it you'll have exactly thirty seconds of total darkness and chaos you open the door you don't hesitate you run down three flights three then out the side entrance i'm right across the street by the canal you'll see my headlights flash twice just run to the

car ready on your mark do it now i see you you're out run