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Message: <blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 5376448" data-attributes="member: 3285">Music of the Spheres: Part 16 – We All Fall DownThe fire escape wobbled before giving up, slowly bending downwards as the weight of the three men swung it away from the tower.  It smashed over a van, which broke its rapid descent, tossing them instead of smashing them into the pavement.  They were heaved onto the car roofs that gave way from the impact, cushioning their fall.Randy, pumped with adrenaline, hit the ground running.  "Judy!" he shouted, unable to hear what he was saying but hoping it was loud enough anyway.  "Go!" He threw her the keys. Judy plunged the keys into the steering column of the minivan and for once, it started immediately. She drove down the road ahead of them. At least Judy and the girls were safe… Randy's moment of relief was replaced by panic.  The ground was shaking.  He knew that there were explosions, crashes, metal and cement breaking apart, but with one eardrum blown out he couldn't hear it very well. All he heard was an internal high-pitched whine.It was Donny's face that tipped him off that something else was wrong.  He ran past him, the fittest of the three men from his stint in the military.  Randy pumped his legs faster when he saw the shadow.The dish.  The dish had come loose.  It rolled like a giant penny, smashing through cars and the fence towards them.  Towards Judy. Randy wasn't moving fast enough.  The dish wobbled on its side and turned sharply. And now it was falling, falling, falling.  The shadow of the dish plunged him into darkness.Randy was shoved, hard.  It could have been a boot.  Or maybe the butt of an ax, he wasn't sure.  The slam of metal behind him kicked up such a shockwave that it hurled Randy off his feet. But the shockwave was a good sign, because when Randy stood up from the dust he knew he was still alive.  He was just a few feet from where the dish had landed, face down.  He almost wept with joy.Then he saw Judy's face, running up to him.  She was mouthing one word.  And he knew who didn't make it out from the dish in time.She was shouting, "Bob!"</blockquote>

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