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Friday, 15 August 2008

Fiction Friday - 15 August 2008
Stolen conversations

This Week's Theme: Write about a stolen conversation.



>INITIATE CONTACT...

>UPLINK TO SATELLITE - WAITING...

>CONNECTION ESTABLISHED

>COMSAT12 UPLINK BEGIN 14:08:13

>DATA DUMP START - 7% COMPLETE...

>SCANNING DATA FOR KEY WORDS...

>DATA DUMP 86% COMPLETE

>...

!! KEYWORD TRIGGER INITIATED !!
!! DOWNLOADING DATA STREAM !!

>CALL INITIATED - BAGHDAD, IRAQ

>CALL TERMINATED - STRATHSPEY, UNITED KINGDOM




"...ound the bunker sir, just like you said, smack in the middle of the El-Sadiq region."

"Did you breach the bunker?"

"Aye sir... there's something under there - a huge network of tunnels."

"So, it's true then."

"Sir? There are symbols all over the tunnels. We've removed the uh... artifacts."

"And?"

"We're beginning to translate them, but one word jumped out straight away. Istasha..."

"..."

"Sir?"

"I think the line is compromised. Go to next channel."



!! CONNECTION LOST !!

>SAVING DATA STREAM

>INITIATE CONTACT

>DATA SENT TO MANCINI

>CONTACT TERMINATED


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