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The Industrial Estate On The Edge Of Town

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The industrial estate on the edge of town had, for a number of years, not been a place that attracted all that many people.
Not many of the right sort of people anyway.
The forest of old brick buildings that once stood clean and tall were now covered in several thick layers of moss while the accompanying metal plated factories that were once able to reflect the rays from the sun for miles into the distance were now a dull, dirty grey and begging to show noticeable signs of rust.
The entire estate had, at one time, been owned by a single very large and very successful business that had employed thousands of people from the local area.
Campbell Urwin Limited had been one of the countries largest manufacturing companies. It produced …show more content…

Over time however, the estate had also come to be the home of a group who 's time was focussed on much more sinister actives. They were a group of people who went by no formal name and a group whose presence there was unknown to all those who passed through the area.
The group called home a building that stood in the middle of the vast estate. It was a building quite different from those that surrounded it. It was cleaner (although not by much), as well as taller and much more modern than the rest. It had, formally, also been the head office of Campbell Urwin.
The top floor of the building was made up of a number of small rooms. They had all previously been the offices of the companies top executives, although none had been used to house office equipment for some time. More recently the rooms had been converted and become improvised bedrooms.
In the far corner of the floor was a small and fairly basic room that had little in it apart from a rusty bed frame that was topped with a mattress so old it was made up of considerably more broken springs than not.
This particular room belonged to the girl that was sat on the splintering chair by the window and looking out at the view, although there was little she was able to see through the heavy torrent of rain and hail that was smashing its way down onto the glass.
Cleo was an average girl of average height. In fact almost everything about her was average, apart from her life anyway, that was nothing

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