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Submitted to Contest #27
I finished the hard part of my mission, or you could call it the easy part, if easy to you is: impersonating a prisoner of war, getting onto a train headed to an iron mine, mining iron for 20 hours straight, and finally sneaking onto a train loaded with iron heading straight to the factories that produce weapons that kill thousands of people.But I guess that the part of the mission that lay ahead of me was going to be equally as hard in it's own way. I should really be uncoupling the train cars to slow it down but I have to sleeeeeeeeee...
I looked out my window, yet another blizzard had settled upon the city. This was going to make me late to the restaurant and to add to that, just last week they finished adding five extra lanes to the highway, but it didn't fix anything - there's still tons of traffic. I probably should have just got one of those flying taxis but they're so expensive. Just to go from my apartment to the restaurant I'm currently going to would cost $50 and I have other things to spend my money on. Or I could have got a ride on one of those...
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