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For a month now you've been suffering from migraines that appear out of nowhere and leave you staggering, unable even to walk in a straight line. The doctors cant seem to help and you're scared. Because the headaches are getting worse, aren't they?
You're on the football field, watching a game when Kevin approaches you. You were at school with Kevin Wilson but haven't seen him since. He takes you to one side, tries to convince you of strange things, extraordinary things but you're not sure you believe him. Why should you. All you know is that he seems able to soothe your pain.
Behind Kevin, you see three large cars pulling up in the Car Park attached to the playing fields. Even as the pain in your head makes your vision shrink into a narrowing tunnel, you realise that there's something odd about the men climbing out of these cars. As you stagger away from him, the other boy remains standing with his back to the car park, unaware of the men approaching him from behind. You shake your head, trying to clear your vision, and it's with a vague sense of unreality that you see one of the men knock Kevin to the ground with a single blow.
The man picks Kevin up like a limp rag doll and begins to run back to the car with him. A second man accompanies them and this man is leaning over the first, trying to force Kevin's arms into some type of coat as they run.
You lose conciousness for a while, giving into the headache you're suffering from and you're too weak to escape when the men who came for Kevin come for you too.
You wake up in the back of a van and only now do you realise that you must have passed out as you tried to run from the men in suits.
You look down and realise that you're wearing a thick waistcoat. It's about the size and shape of the flak jackets that you've seen war reporters wearing on TV but you know that it's not quite that. Glinting through the thin fabric covering, you can see circuit boards and complex electronic components and you realise that the thing is generating a lot of waste heat.
Could this be the thing that's stopping the headache from incapacitating you? Or is just some kind of tracking device to stop you escaping? Would you be better off without it? It's a difficult question but as the van draws to a halt you know that you might not have another chance to do something about it.
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