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Illuminae Amie Kaufman 17700K 2023-09-01

Interviewer: Who?

Ezra Mason: My ex-girlfriend Who’d dumped me maybe three hours before So that was … aard

Interviewer: What did you do?

Ezra Mason: Well, I figured there was a good chance she’d just run me over if I stood in front of the truck So I knocked on theand said so like "Lovely day for a drive," and at that point the southeastern anti-ot vaporized by what I assuht wanna note in your report that those things don’t, you know, stop missiles

Interviewer: So she let you in?

Ezra Mason: She let h to let et X-ed out by a BeiTech kill squad She had to think about it for a h

Interviewer: How did you know BeiTech were behind the attack?

Ezra Mason: I think the biggest giveaas the huge BeiTech logo on the warship hovering overhead It’d dropped out of the clouds and was X-ing the rest of the defense silos by then

Interviewer: By "warship," you ht Lincoln?

Ezra Mason: Yeah That’s the?

Interviewer: So what happened next?

Kady Grant: We took off outta the parking lot like ere in a chase scene So the exit, but the truck was all-terrain, so we rammed it

Interviewer: What was it like outside the school?

Kady Grant: There were a lot of explosions and a lot of dead people Dead civilians orked for a fucking ine you’re an interstellar corporation, right? You discover an illegalop run by one of your coh as the fines roll in, or b) jump in an attack fleet and X-out every man, woman and child on the planet? What the hell was BeiTech thinking?

Interviewer: What you and I need to do is focus on what happened on Kerenza Gathering intel on the attack is the best thing we can do to help right now

Kady Grant: I can’t believe this

Interviewer: Miss Grant--

Kady Grant: Okay Fine We took the main arterial, and Ezra turned on the radio For a second I thought the idiot was looking for the right soundtrack or soency broadcast up They were telling us to get to the spaceport, and our research fleet was going to send down shuttles to ferry us all up to orbit

Interviewer: So you turned for the spaceport?