Carlos ████ interview record
Interviewee: Carlos ████
interviewer: Dr. ██████
Preamble: The following is an interview with a civilian who was mountaineering with his companions. After suffering an accident they had a contact with SCP-ES-288.
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Dr. ██████: Well, Carlos, could you tell me what happened?
Carlos: (Carlos spoke slowly and stopped after each sentence to take a breath) Of course, I was with my companions; William, Vanessa and Nataniel, together we had already climbed other mountains so we were determined to reach the top of this one, so we climbed as normal, but suddenly Nataniel screamed, the ice broke and we fell.
Then I woke up, I had been unconscious for a while due to the blow. I was quite lucky you know, I only broke some ribs and William, I think he had a broken arm, Nataniel and Vanessa were not so lucky, they died… they… died… I didn't even say goodbye… it was so sudden… William said to start walking, staying there lamenting would only serve for us to die too and at that moment I didn't notice it, but when we started walking, there was a third man with us.
Dr. ██████: You're saying there was someone else with you?
Carlos: Yes… It was strange, at that moment I didn't even give importance to the fact that there was someone else there, I practically ignored it.
Dr. ██████: Well, continue.
Carlos: Well, we walked for a long time and I was a little hungry so I took out an energy bar that I had in my backpack, I broke it in 3, I ate a piece and gave another piece to Will and offered the other piece to the person who was following us, but when I turned around he was not there. Will asked what was going on and turned around too, it seemed he was surprised, he had also noticed a person was following us, and then suddenly in front of us was that person.
Dr. ██████: Did it suddenly appear in front of you?
Carlos: Yes. It was strange. His footprints were not marked in the snow. Then this person started walking and making hand signals, we assumed he wanted us to follow him, so we did, we followed him because he was the only one who seemed to know where to go… We were like that for a while until the person stopped and turned to look at William and make hand signals, William didn't understand what he meant, and then suddenly the ice under Will's feet broke and he fell… fell… I didn't even get to see where. I wanted to try to get down somehow to help him but the person grabbed my arm and stopped me.
Dr. ██████: Did you touch it?
Carlos: Yes. He stopped me and then let go of my arm and kept walking, he wanted me to follow him, but… I couldn't leave Will. Then I walked away from the person and went down to help Will, but when I got to help him he was unconscious and had a wound on his side, he was not dead, his heart was still beating. I tried to carry him, but the pain of my broken ribs wouldn't let me, I wanted to save him, I didn't want to leave him there, then the person appeared next to me again. I told him to help me carry Will, but he shook his head, I told him I wouldn't leave without him, then the person took off one of his gloves. His fingers were purple as if he had freezer burns, but they were not swollen, they were strangely normal, and he started to draw in the snow, he was writing, he did it in Russian and…. I don't know Russian but when I read it I understood exactly what he meant, like when he was walking and I automatically knew to follow him or when he was signaling Will and I knew what would happen to him. The person wrote "I will help him, when you are in a safe place". Then he put his glove back on and held out his hand to me, it wasn't to help me, it was more like an invitation. So I followed him, after a short while of walking we arrived at the town from where I left with my friends and the person disappeared. I hope he was going to help Will.
Dr. ██████: Well, that's enough.
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