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June of Doom 2026 Day 22 (@juneofdoom)

“You’re still you.”

(Recovery)

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Aberglaslyn Gorge  |  by Andy Thorpe

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Snowdon light and shade by Andy Thorpe

Llyn y Dywarchen, Snowdonia National Park, Wales

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June of Doom 2026 Day 3; @juneofdoom

3. “Give me another chance.”

| Trapped | Misunderstanding | Deception

~ Charge ~

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“Give me another chance.”

Chief Petty Officer Andy “Charge” Thorpe held up his hands and lowered his head. The weapon pointed at him was enough to convince him that he had messed up pretty bad.

He hadn’t meant to deceive his captors. Really! Well, not at first anyway. But as the officer had worked on the ship’s engines a plan slowly formed in his head.

Charge knew that if he could keep the engines broken long enough, it bought him some time for the others to find and rescue him.

It had been quite a good plan.

However, he hadn’t expected the men who had taken him to find out that he was manipulating the machines. He hadn’t thought that they were clever enough to see it.

But, unfortunately, Andy had been very wrong about that.

And now he paid the price for it.

“You tried to play us, huh? You thought we wouldn’t notice it!” The man spit at the ground next to Andy and swore in his native language. “Who do you think we are, navy bastard?!”

For a short moment, Charge considered giving an honest answer, but he decided that—for his own sake—it was wiser to bite his tongue. He had been beaten up quite badly already.

“I can fix it. I swear!”

Blood was running from a wound on his forehead where the guy had hit him with his gun earlier, dripping into his eye. Andy blinked it away.

“I swear.”

Another blow hit his head and the engineer fell to the ground. A kick to the ribs sent him sprawling and he coughed.

“Come on, man! You know I’m the only one able to fix your engines,” Charge croaked and groaned in pain. He needed to convince the guy that they needed him alive.

“Ha! You will trick us again, won’t you?”

His captor grabbed the engineer by the shirt, pulled him closer and pressed the gun right to his forehead.

Charge closed his eyes and shook his head.

“I won’t. I will fix everything. I promise.”

He put as much honesty into his look as he could and met the cold eyes of his counterpart.

For a long moment the two men stared at each other, before the other man eventually let go of Andy, pushing him away.

Charge was able to break his fall with his arms, yet still he hit the ground harshly.

“Fine! But I swear that if you’ll betray us again, I will put a hole in your head.”

With that the guy walked over to a close by chair and sat down. With his gun, he motioned for Andy to get up and get back to work and the officer followed the order.

He knew that he couldn’t risk tampering with the engines again. Or else he’d be dead in no time.

As Charge worked on the problem, he felt the cold hard stare of his captor on his back. If only he could catch the man by surprise. If only—

The sound of loud voices on deck caught the other man’s attention, and the engineer used his chance right away.

He swirled around and, despite his body aching, jumped at the other, overpowering him.

When his crew mates eventually got to him, Charge just smiled at them, exhausted.

“You’re a bit late, mates.”

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Fox’s Path, Dinorwic  |  by Andy Thorpe