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An open door at the end of a long, silent corridor.

Force your body into fight mode with an epidural of adrenaline, straight to your spinal cord.

Don't care. Don't care. Don't care.

Say a few words into a random payphone? Easy.

She is either well rehearsed or uncaring.

Out-stared. A small tactical victory.

With every further second you stay talking to him you only risk further exposure.

This is him. You are talking to the man who tortured your asset with his own hands and ruined her mind.

AAAARRGH! KILL ME! KILL MEEEEE!

You barely flinch at the violent torrent of sound that washes over you. It makes you feel...

You're in Ramses's houseboat, he's alive... nothing bad is happening...

All around you, an invisible audience leans forwards in their seats.

That was his last show of fear, now he sucks it all back into himself.

Distrust. Then relief. Then an even greater mistrust.

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