--Vocal recording 66398--Cell 84--
21:49pm
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"Sometimes it's hard to know where to start."
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"Last time, I said... where had we got to?"
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"Oh, yeah, of course. Yeah, Eight came in, covered in blood, and told Twelve to kill me. I remember... she looked kind of surprised for a moment, but then she just shrugged - and then she..."
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"...She... pulled a knife out from somwhere or other, and she... held it up against my throat."
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"She said... exact words again, this isn't the kind of thing you forget... she said "sorry about this, but hey, it won't hurt too much. Ten seconds at worst, then it'll stop."
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"And then she laughed - she laughed - and I, I remember thinking what a stupid, pointless way I was about to die..."
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"I don't want to say any more."
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[singing, too quiet to be discerned 27s followed by laughter 2s]
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"Oh, we've... OK, sure."
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"I wonder... If Twelve had killed me then... would they have not been caught, later on? I think about that a lot. Sometimes... but as I say, why speculate?"
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"So anyway, Twelve was just about to kill me, and the others, with Eight, were moving towards the doors..."
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"I told you, it was in the industrial district, it was some kind of warehouse..."
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"Anyway, Twelve was just about to kill me, when... I remember... Another one of them... stopped her. It was Two, who did it."
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"Two was... he was an old man, old for the D.E.M. at least. He was... always the... the kindest of them. He was the friendliest."
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"Yeah, he... he held arm, to stop her from... and he said something to her that I didn't hear, and after a moment she just shrugged again, and took the knife away from my throat, and ran out of the door with the others. Two stayed behind for a second, and then said to me "run", and I did."
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"I ran away, not with the rest of them, but out through an open window - lucky, really, I was on the ground floor - and just ran, faster than I'd ever run before in my life, away from the warehouse."
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"As I ran, I looked behind me, and I... I saw what the others had been running from."
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"It was a group of Mapmen."
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"You've never heard them called that? "Mapmen is the street name for the M.A.P, the Manuductive Authority Police."
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"When I was smaller, they used to scare me. They always seemed so... big. Those black trenchcoats they wear, and their riot masks - they always wear those too, they like to keep their faces hidden - they just really frightened me. I used to have nightmares about them, when I was little. They'd take off their masks, in the dreams, and... underneath, they'd have horrible monster faces. I used to wake up screaming."
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"My parents... they used to say... well, what parents are supposed to say. You know the sort of thing, "you musn't be scared of the Mapmen, they're there to help you"
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"But it never really helped. I still had the dreams."
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"Can we finish here, please?"
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Hope you njoyed the latest installment, guys!
I've always said tht there'll b 12 chapters to "3", but I think that'll have to be xtended to more like 15 or something as the story continues. Stick with it! (I know u will, hehheh :-)
