REINCARNATED RECOMPENSE

['77 East]

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STATION PROMETHEUS
AUGUST, ELEVENTH.
0500 HOURS



05:07 ###:

It's been sixteen weeks.
When are we to be free?

GEN. #######
What is freedom to a man like you,
a man like him?​

No more questions.
No more confinement.
No more judgement.

From the looks of it, that's exactly
what the two of you did over there.​

You have men outside with orders and ordinance.
They had men inside with orders and ordnance.

We don't subject our people to
barbaric shoot on sight laws an-​

You didn't have to.

Yet. ​

I get it, it's hard to imagine a world like that.
Worst of all, knowing that it didn't take much,
that everyone just passed the buck and let it
happen.

By all textbook definitions, you're both war criminals.
Aiding and abetting mass murder - genocide - on
a planetary scale.​

I never killed anyone.

Irrelevant. ​

Are you representative of what's happening
right now in the middle east, ####### ?

Irrelevant.​

Not really, #######.

We might have been cogs in our respective machines but that
doesn't balance out the soul. Doesn't mean a whole lot when
the faces come back and you stare at what's not there, what
no longer exists -- won't exist -- as they get machine-gunned
in the streets. Blown apart. Stabbed. Shot. Your own people
too, innocent or damned, killed by their superiors like swatting
flies.

Caustically carved away by the C-M-B war machine.

It's hard to believe.​

You've seen the documents.
Archives. Recordings.

... Half my bosses think you're insane.​

And the other half?

What do you want, Zero? ​

I just want to go home.

That's all I ever wanted.



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