You are a cartographer. Your father (who is no longer alive) was a movie stunt man who burned to death when nobody realized that he wasn’t actually supposed to be on fire for the particular scene that was being shot. Thinking about his sad demise makes you get down on your hands and knees and weep uncontrollably. But one day you hear something through the walls. You try to ignore it. You go home, but you still feel the pulsing sound waves echoing through the building. Where is it coming from? Using your skills as a mapmaker, you pinpoint the location of it: your father’s grave. He is warning you: he has it on the best authority that you have only five hours and twelve minutes left to live. What will you do with your last days on Earth?

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