What would you really do?

Fiction

You’re a lorry driver doing your shift and you’re exhausted. You’ve been driving for around 4-5 hours, you don’t know really. You check your watch, it’s 4:00AM. As you’re driving through the Canadian mountains you see a figure emerge from the trees on the side of the road. As you get closer, the figure turns into a shadow, the shadow into an outline and the outline into a clear shape of a human. Your curious side of you decides to slow down the truck. As you decelerate you see a woman. The first thing you notice about her is that she has an electric collar around her neck. She looks like she’s in her mid twenties and has clothes that look like they haven’t been washed in a while. She looks traumatised. You ask her what she’s doing out here all alone at this time and she stays silent. She signals to you that she can’t speak. You think the electric collar she has around her neck has a microphone or some sort of tracker. You take her inside the truck. As she sits in the passenger seat you reach into the driver’s compartment to grab a piece of paper and pen. You hand it to her and tell her to write. She hesitates. As she takes it from you she writes very quickly and messily: ‘HELP ME. MY NAME IS ANNA. EVERYTHING I SAY IS BEING RECORED AND THERE IS A TRACKER ON ME. IF I BREAK THIS THERE IS A BOMB THAT SELF DEACTIVATES.` You sit for a while. So many questions to be answered but so little time. You ask her who is listening. She writes: ‘IT DOESN’T MATTER` As you start to think your cautious side starts to kick in. It’s 4:00AM. Why would anyone be out here at this time? Yes she could be in crucial danger but cod this be something deeper? Maybe she doesn’t even exist. She notices you are deep in thought. What would you really do if you were in this situation?

If this post gets lots of upvotes I will give part 2

Posted Jun 6, 2026, 9:25 PM UTC

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