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He lowered himself to a knee, found that the bodies beside him were still breathing, and assumed others in the room were likewise alive, all except one, that is. A young, thin man in a lab coat had fallen and cracked his head and was now lying in a large splotch of dried blood....
"The blue light dimmed and began pulsing, throbbing, and then it was joined by a whoom, whoom, whoom, faintly audible like distant bass drums.
"Walls turned syrupy and dripped, peeling away, cascading down like paper-thin waterfalls. The air in the lab came alive, churning like heavy rapids.
"The researchers had really blown this one. While searching for some exotic quantum particle, they'd blown open the inner gates of hell. Only hell wasn't a destination far below the crust of the earth, it was all around, everywhere, waiting..."
