magisternihil's 100-word story for May 28, 2025

magisternihil wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on May 28, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

Seymour walked along the corridor with purpose, his legs aching and a pang of pain in his lower back screaming at him for ever entering this tunnel. "Where does this even go?" he asked aloud. He looked back and forward and saw an endless stretch in either direction. He glanced down and saw a panel. "Right, enough of this!" He knelt and pulled at the edges until he pried the square from the floor. Below was the endlessness of space, and an equally endless tube that doubled back on itself over and over like spaghetti. Seymour sighed and continued on.

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