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Hibernation monologue Flashcards

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I wasn’t up in the crane - the day of the fire.

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I wasn’t up in the crane - the day of the fire.

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I’d only been using my car to get around.

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I’d only been using my car to get around.

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Not like you, not swapping them, crashing them into walls - I’m very boring.

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Not like you, not swapping them, crashing them into walls - I’m very boring.

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I just like driving mine.

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I just like driving mine.

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A small way of feeling like things are normal, normal days when I just drive round in my shitty old car.

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A small way of feeling like things are normal, normal days when I just drive round in my shitty old car.

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But… the petrol stations are all empty, cause the government ordered that, for Hibernation.

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But… the petrol stations are all empty, cause the government ordered that, for Hibernation.

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So one thing I do is, whenever I find petrol in a car (just a random one on the street) I siphon it.

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So the one thing I do is, whenever I find petrol in a car (just a random one on the street) I siphon it.

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I fill jerrycans with petrol and… I store it all.

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I fill jerrycans with petrol and… I store it all.

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Store it in one spot, so there’s lots waiting for me whenever I need, like my own petrol station.

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Store it in one spot, so there’s lots waiting for me whenever I need, like my own petrol station.

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And there’s this b… There was this big empty carpark, in front of a block of units, on South Terrace.

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And there’s this b… There was this big empty carpark, in front of a block of units, on South Terrace.

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It had a roof and… It was just in a good place, a handy place, for me to park the car. Fill up.

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It had a roof and… It was just in a good place, a handy place, for me to park the car. Fill up.

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So I just kept stocking petrol there.

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So I just kept stocking petrol there.

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More and more of it, more and more of these cans.

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More and more of it, more and more of these cans.

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I didn’t think about it. I just… did it. And then…

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I didn’t think about it. I just… did it. And then…

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I don’t know what happened? I don’t know if it was lightning or… or some friction with the metal, the cans.

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I don’t know what happened? I don’t know if it was lightning or… or some friction with the metal, the cans.

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If a can tipped over and spilt. I don’t know.

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If a can tipped over and spilt. I don’t know.

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But I heard the explosion and… Well you know how big the explosion was.

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But I heard the explosion and… Well you know how big the explosion was.

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I knew straight away what had happened and I drove there, in my shitty old car.

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I knew straight away what had happened and I drove there, in my shitty old car.

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The whole side of the units… was alight.

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The whole side of the units… was alight.

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These loud flames, these explosions, and then… All these windows.

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These loud flames, these explosions, and then… All these windows.

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Row after row of windows and… They were all silent.

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Row after row of windows and… They were all silent.

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Every flat, silent. Every sleeping person, inside every flat. Silent.

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Every flat, silent. Every sleeping person, inside every flat. Silent.

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The fire hadn’t got to the front yet.

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The fire hadn’t got to the front yet.

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And I broke a window - I climbed in, and went… just to the first bedroom I could see.

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And I broke a window - I climbed in, and went… just to the first bedroom I could see.

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And there was a man and a woman. He was too heavy so I picked her up.

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There was a man and a woman. He was too heavy so I picked her up. And I tipped her out the window.

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And then I found a teenager, in the next room, and I tipped him out too.

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And then I found a teenager, in the next room, and I tipped him out too.

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Then I pulled them both to the footpath, this sleeping mum and son.

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Then I pulled them both to the footpath, this sleeping mum and son.

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I pull them to safety - and then I turn round.

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I pull them to safety - and then I turn round.

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I go back in, further down the corridor and… I break into another place, another flat.

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I go back in, further down the corridor and… I break into another place, another flat.

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And I drag three people out of there.

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And I drag three people out of there.

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Drag them to the footpath, leave them lying with their neighbours.

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Drag them to the footpath, leave them lying with their neighbours.

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And then I did it two more times - six more people in those next two flats. And that’s eleven people.

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And then I did it two more times - six more people in those next two flats. And that’s eleven people.

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And then the smoke… There was a lot of smoke but…

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And then the smoke… There was a lot of smoke but…

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I thought I heard a baby? Even though I didn’t, you know.

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I thought I heard a baby? Even though I didn’t, you know.

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Even though I know there wasn’t one - or if there was it wouldn’t have been crying but…

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Even though I know there wasn’t one - or if there was it wouldn’t have been crying but…

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I heard one. It doesn’t matter that there wasn’t one - I heard one.

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I heard one. It doesn’t matter that there wasn’t one - I heard one.

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So I went back in.

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So I went back in.

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But the smoke was… It was all just smoke.

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But the smoke was… It was all just smoke.

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And there was no baby. Not even the noise of a baby.

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And there was no baby. Not even the noise of a baby.

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Just smoke. And I was vomiting.

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Just smoke. And I was vomiting.

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Even my new wonderful synthetic lungs couldn’t handle that much smoke.

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Even my new wonderful synthetic lungs couldn’t handle that much smoke.

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So I went back outside, just made it outside, to my eleven people on the footpath.

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So I went back outside, just made it outside, to my eleven people on the footpath.

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And…
The animals had some to see the fire.

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And…
The animals had some to see the fire.

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I thought it might’ve scared them off. Thought that’s how nature works but…

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I thought it might’ve scared them off. Thought that’s how nature works but…

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Turns out it works different. Maybe they smelled the…

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Turns out it works different. Maybe they smelled the…

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I don’t know why they were there. But they were.

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Turns out it works different. Maybe they smelled the…

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I don’t know why they were there. But they were.

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I don’t know why they were there. But they were.

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And the dogs. And the hyenas. And the lions. And the crows.

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I don’t know why they were there. But they were.

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And the dogs. And the hyenas. And the lions. And the crows.

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And the dogs. And the hyenas. And the lions. And the crows.

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They had found my eleven people. They found them all.

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