(part 2). I think everyone will die today. I still don’t know how or why.

See part 1 here

I left the office yesterday, likely for the very last time. I managed not to cry as my boss wished me a good weekend and said he would see me on Monday. I looked at his arm, to the clock indicating slightly below 1 day and 3 hours. I was not going to see him on Monday.

I attached a link above to the request I wrote 20 days ago. Please read that first if you haven’t already. It will explain what I see and why I think we are heading for the apocalypse.

So, today is the day. It still looks like a very pleasant day outside. It is Saturday, and the streets were filled today. People shopping, couples eating in restaurants, parents watching their children play. They looked happy. They are also, if their clocks are right, all going to be dead within the hour.  

And so am I. I look at my arm. 000:00:19:39. 000:00:19:38. I know what it counts down to, but I still don’t know how that will happen.

It frustrates me to be honest. At least, if I really needed to watch everyone’s death coming for a year, could I get a hint? I want to know whether what will happen is painful, whether I will notice it or not. And still, nothing.

Of course, there is another possibility, one that occasionally still fills me with hope. I have no idea why I even get to see the clocks, so how I can be sure they’re not wrong? Then I remind myself they have never been wrong. Then I argue they’ve also never appeared on literally everyone until last year. And so, I cycle between feelings of occasional acceptance, sudden despair and glimmers of hope.

I haven’t said goodbye to people. Partly because of the possibility I might be wrong and partly because I think they wouldn’t believe me anyways. I have told my loved ones I loved them. If I had any idea of what the apocalypse would be, I might have been able to alert people. I don’t know whether that is possible, trying to change the clocks by changing a path. I don’t think it is actually, but I would have tried. Now I had no idea where to begin.

000:00:06:06. Six minutes left, and the last thing I do is posting on Reddit. If there is a future, I can at least hope that I have contributed something so they can understand what has happened. I could describe another million things, but I need to finish now because I want to be able to post it. So this is it. Goodbye.

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Registration case: 33-002

Language of registry: English

Area of registry: uncertain, possibly former Netherlands or Belgium 

Above mentioned registry was found on digital archives that survived the Flash. It was written shortly before the Flash. Attached is another registry (33-001) from the same case written three weeks earlier.

Case 33 was a Watcher. Similar to the other Watchers we have found, something in their brains were wired so they could see the deaths of others coming. All Watchers so far started seeing these timers a year before someone’s death. Since almost all of earth’s population died during the Flash, they were aware that the apocalypse was coming. They did not know what the apocalypse would look like, or why they could see the clocks while others couldn’t.

Case 33 was not aware of there being other Watchers. Since only 32 others have been found so far worldwide, this is not surprising. There have been only two cases, Cases 14 and 15 in former Japan, who were aware of each other’s existence. It is likely that there were other Watchers who never posted on social media and remain unknown. Cases 14 and 15 posted on their joint experiences on Facebook, but Case 33 was not aware of them. We know that Case 33 lived in Europe and commented on social media in Dutch and English, so it is unlikely that they spoke Japanese.

None of the Watchers we found so far were aware of the Survivors. If they met a Survivor, they would have noticed the absence of a timer on their arm. However, since only around 8000 people survived the Flash, it is statistically very possible that these two groups never met.

While research continues, the reasons for the Flash, why some people were Watchers and why a very limited group of people survived it, remain unknown even today.