Otzi's Sacrifice: A Narrative Fiction

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I could see the lights of a massive ship and it was coming straight towards me! I had been climbing the iceberg for four hours, and I finally reached the top. My face was numb from the chilly ocean breeze, I felt like a frozen zombie; tired, cold, and extremely hungry. The ship was coming fast, and I was stranded on a rather large iceberg. I had to plan my escape, and quickly! I have had some pretty strange experiences while climbing. Once, I was hiking in the Otzal Alps, and I came across a mummified corpse. I texted my friend, Dr. Sum Boti, and we hauled the body, which I named Otzi, to the lab. We don't know much about him, except that his body is kind of gross...only about 5,300 years old. They still have him in the lab, trying

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