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Follow me, I know were there’s a painting of the stranger, maybe you know him.”

I took Terri to the painting of the harem scene at the end of the corridor, I pointed out the stranger sitting in the middle of the picture.

Ah, that clears up a few things,” she said staring at the strangers likeness.

You know him?” I asked.

He called himself Jose, he wasn’t the type of guy I’m usually attracted too, but something awful had happened to me and I was extremely vulnerable. He managed to come along at just the right time, he was always able to say the exact right things at the exact right times. I always thought it was weird how he seemed to know me so well and was able to manipulate me so easily. I slept with him mostly out of guilt. Now I know how he did it, what a creep.”

Did he seem like the violent type?” I asked.

I honestly don’t know, he was kinda nerdy and obsessed with sex, it’s all we really did together. He disappeared after a week or so, I never saw him again.”

We started walking back down the hallway to look for the computer lab I had found the plaque in. I was able to find the door of the lab using the statues of naked women as a reference. They worked remarkably well as landmarks.

I was about to activate the doorway algorithm when Terri put her hand on my arm to stop me. She held up a key.

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