![]() A traitor to the insurgency had told us that enemy fighters were gathering in a border city. My first action in the field, I made a mistake. I’ve never had any need to put my inner world on display. He was younger than I, and he was the one to see it in me, that I had a talent for discipline and quiet. Tom saw that I was bored, and I didn’t even know it. “Do you love your country?”, the usual drill. Tom had already been recruited to MI6 straight from Oxford. I was training to work as a diplomatic translator. My first degrees were in modern language. I’d always been a talented linguist, like our father. It was Tom who’d encouraged me into the service, you know. I’d never been particularly skilled at dealing with failure. In the early days when this happened, the first few days, I thought I would go mad. That would account for the diamond pattern on its flesh. I see it’s rotted straight into a mesh fence of some sort. JANINE DE LUCA: You know, I would never have thought it’d be Tom who’d go completely insane. That’s why we’re heading for their headquarters.Īh, I see those blind zombies have smelled us out, or possibly tasted us in the air, or something even more grotesque. The Ministry wouldn’t approve this operation, but if we’re going to beat them, Five, we need to know why they wanted to steal a baby. Always staying several moves ahead of your opponent. I knew what he meant, but I could never do it. Tom always used to tell me not to overthink things. I don’t understand why anyone would do it, that’s what I’m driving at, Runner Five. How terrible it was that Tom was involved in it, a truly appalling crime. I couldn’t stop thinking about what a terrible thing it would be to steal a baby. I’m grateful for the Ministry’s announcement that they found the Netrophil miscreants who attempted to steal baby Sara. A ship showing a British flag might attack an undefended and peaceful port, to make people hate the British more.ĭo you see? When you start to see false flags everywhere, that’s when you know you’ve become paranoid. It’s an image from the days of pirate ships and naval battles. How did Steven know that Owen had been talking about his mother? You’ve heard of false flag operations, I suppose. One never knows what one might put together in a quiet moment at the end of a long day with a glass of whiskey in hand, reviewing a year’s worth of briefing notes. Record everything, however inconsequential or irrelevant it seemed. That’s what I was trained to do, you know. I should make a note in a briefing document for the Ministry. When I’ve been here before, they’ve seemed to be able to see in the dark. ![]() I suppose they took shelter here, poor souls. Of course, there have been a fair few zombies trapped down here since the outbreak. These tunnels are the safest way to enter the city undetected. All we’re going to do is infiltrate Netrophil. We’ll take the old tunnels, that’s quickest. Our absence from the mess hall will be noted. Sometimes I think I ought to have been warier myself. How could any of us trust you? Sara Smith was quite right to be wary. You trust me, don’t you, Runner Five? I trust you, you know that. We shan’t call on Abel unless we need them. Hence this meeting at dusk, and the secrecy. Although, this mission is outside operational parameters. Yes, good thinking to bring your headset, I suppose. Meanwhile, Sam's tapped into the facility's loud speakers, and tries to calm Janine down, ordering her back to Abel. Janine can't make sense of this, the whole place has been wiped clean, but there's been recent activity here too. Janine turns it back off, betrayed, but still warns you about two approaching zoms. She desperately wants to continue, but suddenly Sam's on comms. She hopes to properly interrogate one of the agents. Janine tells you she's disobeyed Ministry orders to anonymously contact Netrophil agents and find the meeting place you've just entered. Tom helped her with the subsequent breakdown and she's definitely better now. Still in the tunnel Janine describes her greatest failure in the field hurting innocents because she misread a situation. Janine thinks all the secrets have turned her into a consipracy theorist, but she's got to stay one step ahead of the Ministry. You're using a tunnel full of zoms that can see in the dark as a shortcut. ![]() She tells you it's just a quick trip, nothing to worry about, you're just infiltrating Netrophil. Janine's not quite right as you both set off on this twilight mission.
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