--Vocal Recording 66395--Cell 84--
21:49pm
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"OK... so do we pick up where we left off?"
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"And where... Oh, yeah."
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"So... yeah, after I woke up, I saw someone standing over me... Before I got a chance to see them properly, they hit me on top of the head and... well, obviously I don't know, I guess they carried me or put me in a sack or... what?"
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"I've never been sure myself. It might have been Zero, he was strong enough to carry me, but I'm not certain. Who knows, it might even have been Eight. Anyway, none of them ever owned up. I never asked."
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"Anyway, I'm getting ahead of myself. After I'd been hit, the next thing I remember..."
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"I was waking up, alone again. I was in a huge room, and it was completely dark. I was there for such a long time. Hours and hours and hours"
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"I think I might have been somewhere in the Industrial District. I sometimes thought I could hear the clock tower ringing, so I must have been over that way - fairly close to the Manuductive Court."
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"Always been a government building, the Court. Even before the Manuductive came along. I studied it as part of my History coursework."
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"I know, alright? I know it's besides the point. I don't care. I want to say this."
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"Fine... after, it must have been 7 hours, I heard someone. More than one person. Outside the door to where I was - the door was locked, I'd already tried it - the people sounded as if they were... arguing. And after a while..."
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"Someone unlocked the door and came in."
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"It was... a man. A boy, really, a little older than me. He was smoking a cigarette, and he was wearing a pair of dark jeans and a synth-leather jacket over a grey T-shirt... he..."
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"I..."
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"Yeah, that was Eight."
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"9 days until my sentence. I still don't know what it'll be."
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"OK... the thing I remember about Eight when I first saw him is how... angry he looked. He was looking right at me and I honestly thought he was going to kill me there and then."
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"But instead he... he walked up to me and told me to stand up. I remember noticing...
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I remember seeing that he had the number eight actually printed on his T-shirt. Not that it meant anything at the time, obviously.
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"No. I never knew his real name, or any of their real names. They never knew mine."
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"My real name is recorded in my personal data. You found it out during my trial anyway, so I'm not going to say it. In here, my name is Three."
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"Anyway... Eight grabbed me by the wrist and sort of dragged me out of the room and down a corridor that was on the other side of the door."
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"At the end of the corridor was another room, a smaller one this time. It was dark still, but I could see that this room was full of people. All of them were staring straight at me."
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"After a bit, Eight turned to look at me again. He just stared and stared for ages, and... and I remember being so scared."
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"Then he just looked kind of tired for a moment, and he said... "You don't know what you've let yourself in for.""
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"I'm not saying any more."
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Sorry this one is a bit shorter than usual, guys; I jst thought this would b a good place 2 stop. Good news is I've got part 5 already sorted and I'm posting it the day after this one is posted.
Thanx as usual 2 all readers, fans and commentors.
