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"They also showed this video," Nico said The moment it loaded, from the very first frozen screen, I knew exactly what it would be of

I couldn’t see my face--Alice had filmed it all from behindout of the rooh my name "I’m one of you All of us here are like you, except the wo you to somewhere safe But we have toyourselves or anyone around you Follow thee of the desk hard enough that Nico leaned back as he said, "I take it they didn’t ask you before they used this footage?"

"They did not" And this, too, felt personal--it felt like they were throwing it back in ether out of order: the bound-and-gagged PSFs, a close-up of their uniforms, equipment with military decals--smart choices, to try to lend it additional authenticity

"Froe boards, it sounds like at least two major papers picked up the story By the tioverns out that supposedly made it fake Did you know they released a list of kids, too? Individual photographs of them and what their parents did for the Federal Coalition?"

"I didn’t," I said, gritting my teeth "Did Cole see this?"

"Yeah, he was in here watching with me earlier," Nico said "Look, they’re probably all down there patting themselves on the back for this But the truth is, it didn’t stick Less than twenty minutes after it went up, Gray scrubbed the web Not only that, but a nu companies were taken offline The comments on the forums--look, like this one?" He pointed to the ti when the news broke"

The post read: This is sickening--are they all like this?

"And two hours later," Nico said, "the tone of the coed"

This has to be a hoax It’s too perfectly put together I could do this in my backyard with a few actors

The post below it read, Then how did they get ies? Old movies?

Have you never heard of Photoshop?

"A lot of people don’t think this is real," Nico said "Part of the probleuess--we don’t have a naroup We couldn’t claim responsibility for this and then back it up with a history of other infor information that’s already been released by third parties; that’s where their na breaks to seeeneral population"

"But people at least saw the ies," I said No matter how Nico spun it, that was a sht of the ca that would spring toThur "I believe in our plan It’s the only option"