11-27-2019, 11:04 AM
4:45 pm. Central archives, Sharanfo
Tse Tai had look through the stack of files he had ordered from the archives four times over already. Checking them against the local archives. The documents from the hospital. Even school yearbooks. Nothing was adding up. There should have been nothing wrong here. Everything should have checked out.
And yet it was all coming up wrong. This was supposed to be a simple active procedure. Checking central archive files against local archive files as part of the background check process for someone potentially getting promoted to the Imperial committee.
Verifying that Central archive records matched local archive records. But there wasn't any local archive records. There was only Central Records kept digitally in the central archives rather than kept physically at the local ones.
Now it wasn't unheard of to have no local archive records. Things were lost and damaged over the long years. And they were honest mistakes with filing that happens from time to time. But this was different.
Tse had spent the last week digging through other archives to find anything. He had visited the hospital in which the person he was supposed to be looking at claimed to be born. And yet there was nothing.
He had traveled out to the provinces, gone to the primary and secondary school that she'd claim to attend before moving to Singse
And yet there was nothing. No teacher remembered her. No student that was in her supposed graduating class had ever heard of her. And most damningly there wasn't a single photo of her in any of her yearbooks.
It was as if she had just appeared at the age of 14 with paperwork saying she had lived a full life and yet no other evidence to back that claim.
There was no way to explain this away. There was just too much evidence in the form of lack of evidence. Letting out an exhausted sigh, he reached for the phone on his desk, picking it up.
"internal security...i… I think you need to send an agent down to office 2-21. There is something that I need to show you"
The door opened less than a minute after he had set down the phone. A man in those flowing black robes typical of an agent of his branch of the government walk through the door.
The bureaucrats had already laid out the evidence on the table. This wasn't his first time making this call. But he still felt terrible about what happened to the last person
He discovered after going through their paperwork…. The rumors of what had happened to him.
But that guilt was soon replaced by the fear of knowing something even worse would happen to him if he didn't report his findings and he was found out.
The man who looked like he was cloaked in a shadow sat across from the bureaucrat opening up the first manila folder and looking through its contents.
He slowly closed the file and moved to another one. Silently running his fingers over the pieces of paper. Being drawn to what the bureaucrat highlighted and underlined to emphasize its importance.
The bureaucrats watched the agents face slowly changed from an emotionless stony exterior comparable to a statue into one of surprise. Bits of shock and horror coming through his expressions.
He closed the last file and looked up towards the bureaucrats.
The two people stared at each other. Drowning together in an ocean of fear. Seeing one of the feared agents of the Shingzi Ren looking totally shocked was like an anchor for the bureaucrat.
One dragging him down into that ocean of fear even quicker than he would have gone otherwise.
There was a few minutes of inaction between them. As that ocean surrounded them and pushed against them with all the pressure it could muster. Threatening to crack their bones and tear their skin.
The deepest fear either of them had ever felt. A fear that grew even deeper as they looked in each other's eyes.
The agent started to swim up from that ocean of fear first though. He's stood up and grabrd a box, collecting all of the papers and documents within its before closing the lid
"... forget what you saw. Tell no one what transpired today."
The bureaucrats could only give a solemn nod as the agent walked out.
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7:12pm. The black Monastery. Headquarters if the Shingzi Ren, just outside of Singse
Grandmaster Lee folded his hands together over his desk as he closed the manila envelope. Within it was just two pieces of printer paper covered in a short and brief description of what had transpired as well as some attached photos. But in those two pages there was A deadly secret that could shake apart the foundation of the empire. The old Grandmaster didn't even know how to process it. He was Stern and quiet as some of the other ranking members of his order stood around him waiting for him to act decisively. The order was decentralized in most things. Usually lesser directors and agents could have acted on this. But the magnitude of what had just been revealed with something that only The Grandmaster himself could direct the actions of the organization on.
Finally the old man parted his lips. Letting a few words out as he leaned back in his chair and removed his glasses tossing them haphazardly onto the desk
" I have been a fool… and now the core of the Empire is exposed...Sun Yafang the chief engineer of Heaven's Gate... is a woman living under a false identity. "
"... the most important economic asset within the Empire has fallen to the enemy without a single shot being fired…" a voice speaking in a strange and foreign accent spok out.
The Grandmaster turned his attention towards that voice. a slight amount of anger towards the Immigrant agent present in his voice.
" obviously agent Nemo. The question is who does she work for. And what are they after"
"... I think you already know the answer to that Grandmaster" another voice said from the other side of the room. Director Kong.
" this is the eventuality that I have been telling you was going to happen since the Civil War in lauchnoria. The auroras.."
" the Aurora. the Aurora's! " The Grandmaster shouted cutting off the director." Oh trust me I know your opinion on them. You think that little backwards country could ever infiltrate his deeply into the Empire's they did Within lauchnoria...i...i will never allow such...such…"
He slowly started to sputter off. His words becoming less coherent
"... with all due respect Grandmaster...you are wrong...what we know about mrs. Sun is in line with what we know about the Aurora's. And even if we are wrong we can no longer allow her to remain free. We have to take her into custody…"
The Grandmaster nodded weekly and defeated. " ill...ill let you take charge director kong… take this woman into custody. Quietly. Obviously. I will inform the empress…"
" as you wish Grandmaster" the group bow their heads towards the leader of their order. All of them slowly starting to walk out at the old man went to the phone.
"... get me her majesty. I need to tell her something…"
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12:44 am.
Bolder point city, shen.
Housing bloc AB-2
Floor 29.
Room 4
The calm quiet of the government housing units of Boulder Pointe. Filled entirely with bureaucrats and there family. it was clean. Modern. Professional.
The last place you would expect a solid windowless van to pull up in front of. And another one to head around to the back. No one had ever seen those doors burst open wistfully Arms Tactical police units thrusting forward starting to make their way into the building.
Some getting to the roof and setting up rappelling gear. And others positioning themselves right outside the door.
And sounds of dread in horror filled the entire floor as everyone was woken up with a door being broken down and windows being shattered
And shen federal police yelling
" police raid! Evreyone up now!"
Sun Yafang woke with a start, confused. She'd lived this life so long by now that her old childhood instincts had been weakened, and so when she heard the crash, it took her a second to sit up in bed and glance around her.
As soon as she was looking up a flashlight started to shine in her face
" Get up!" The man yelled at her.
Woko looked into the lights with Terror. Completely speechless yes he did as he was instructed. The screening of her son and her daughter came into the room before the sound of them being forcibly pulled out of their beds also came through the walls
In a split second, she considered her options. She could fight... but her body was weaker than it used to be, and her family was there. She couldn't risk them coming to harm. Running wasn't an option, there was nowhere to go, she was cornered. So, she went with her last remaining option: go quietly and pretend she knew nothing about what was happening.
She stood up slowly, keeping the expression of confusion on her face even though it was far less genuine now than it was a few seconds ago, and stepped close to her husband, acting like she wanted his protection even though the idea rather disgusted her.
The guards moved the family of four into the main room by the door. One of them looked at his phone bruh moment. Making sure everything was correct on the small touch screen. After nodding he put it back in his pocket.
" cuff and bags them all"
As soon as he gave the odor bags were placed on all four of their heads and their hands were cuffed behind them. The federal police began to push them down the hallway and take them to the lobby
The elevator ride was far longer than it normally was. The guns being pointed at their backs and the muffled crying of her daughter and her son echoed in her ear
When they finally got down they heard to new voices but they hadn't heard up in the bedroom
" give us the woman. do what you want with the other three"
" under whose authority? Who the hell are.."
But the police officer suddenly got very quiet. His tone of voice change from commanding to very submissive
" oh...sorry sir"
" you didn't know Sergeant. Just do as I ask"
" yes sir"
She kept quiet, biting her lip and squeezing her eyes shut tighter. There was nothing she could do. The cries of her children hurt her but she had known that was a risk, once. She'd spent so long with things going well that she had almost forgotten the risk existed. But the day she'd wished for years now would never come was here, and there was nothing she could do but keep quiet.
The Aurora found herself thrown into the back of a car landing hard against the floor. Before she could even interact the stinging sensation of her flesh being pierced by a tiny needle stung her body. And then her body suddenly had no feeling at all. Her eyes didn't stay open and she slipped into unconsciousness.
When she awoke an undisclosed amount of time had passed. She was in a chamber. The walls for concrete. She sat on a table that was bolted into the floor. And her hands were firmly secured on to that table with another Bolt. She was wearing the same clothing she had when she had been pulled out in the middle of the night. Sitting there in a cold chair. Alone
She closed her eyes and took a couple of deep breaths. She tried to recall her training, from so long ago. She needed to keep her breathing steady, remember her mission and her loyalties. Tell them nothing.
Time continue to pass on words. Alone in that cold dark concrete room. Finally the door opened. The Shadows obscured the figure but walked in. But it was tall whatever it was. And wore a black cloak over it tunic of matching color. It's sat across from her and set down a stack of manila envelopes before pressing a button on the table. A recording symbol lit up.
"... this is Agent 23 J in processing room for. Prisoner 34118." The voice was feminine. Calm and relaxed. Almost bored
A pair of eyes looked at her, barely visible in the shadows.
"... please state your name and citizen ID number for the record"
"My name is Sun Yafang, and my ID number is 23561246," she answered, sounding confused and slightly afraid.
" and you hold what rank within the bureaucracy?"
"Class 4."
The mysterious woman pressed another button on the table. A smoke compartment opened and a lamp rose out of it which instantly illuminated and a lamp rose out of it instantly Illuminating the table as well as blinding for a woman who would spend so many hours in the dark
"... according to my records you are currently the chief engineer at the Heaven's Gate damn... is that correct?"
"That is correct, yes," she said, blinking in the light.
"... your records here are very impressive miss yufang. Scored in the 96th percentile on your civil service exam. Graduated near the top of your class for the Hydraulic Engineering program. An upstanding career in the bureaucracy... my records are correct arnt they?"
"They are correct, yes," she replied, warily.
" interesting..."
The woman pulled out the first manila folder and opened it up. It was a birth certificate. Her birth certificate
" do you recognize this?"
"I do, it's my birth certificate," she said, looking down at the document.
"... so you admit this is your birth certificate? You find nothing wrong about it? The hospital you were born in? Time and date?"
"No, I can see no errors," she said as her heart rate rose a little, her nerves increasing.
"... so can you explain to me why this document stored in the central archives has no twin at the local archives? And there are no records of this birth in the hospital?"
"I..." she paused, thinking. "I have no explanation. Perhaps the records were lost by some incompetent individual?"
"... perhaps. No one's perfect after all"
The woman closed the manila folder and slid it off to the side.
She got another folder out as well as a book underneath it. A class yearbook for a primary school. The one that her documents claimed she attended
She opened up the manila folder and showed her a certificate of graduation with her name on it
"... is this your graduation form from primary school?"
"It is," she nodded.
" it is? Interesting"
She picked up the boom and began flip through the pages
" what was your homeroom? What are some clubs you attended when you were in Primary School? You look like a chess club girl"
"I'm sorry, I don't remember. It was so long ago, and my memories are all mixed up with my memories of my kids' schools..." she trailed off. She shouldn't have mentioned her children, it was only making her nerves worse.
"...your children yes. I wonder what's happening to them " she said sinisterly as she slipped through the books a little more before setting it down and picking up another one.
"... funny. I don't see any mention of you in any of these. And me and my colleagues have been through them quite thoroughly. Can you explain why you're not in any of your primary school or secondary school yearbooks?"
"Ah," she began, though her heart rate was now horribly high, worrying about her children. "The thing is, I had this pathological fear when I was a child about getting my photo taken. I despised it, I thought I was ugly. So I'd always, well, feign sickness on picture day. I kind of got over it when I was a teenager though, after I'd lost a little weight."
"... you do know that that's not a valid excuse and someone would have taken your photo for record-keeping...any shen child knows this... we all miss picture day one Year and have to be chased down by the school staff to make sure it's done before their deadline..."
She closed the envelope and put it off to her side. The table was clear in between them now. She crossed her arms and stare directly into the Aurora's soul
"... you would know that if you grew up here. But there's no documented proof of you even existing until you were 14"
"I..." she trailed off. It was pointless. She couldn't come up with enough excuses. She had been warned not to be caught. She should have fought back when they tried to catch her. "I don't know why that is."
" oh I think you do."
She unfolded her arms and began to stretch across the table
" in fact I have a pretty good idea and I think we're both wasting a lot of time pretending like I haven't figured this out."
She placed her hand on top of the Aurora's
"... why don't you just come clean? You lost the game but that doesn't mean you have to lose everything. Just work with me and we can make sure your children stay safe"
"What are you going to do to them!?" her eyes flashed with fear.
" nothing... so long as you cooperate... all three of your children are being held in processing facilities at the moment. They're scared but unharmed. What happens in this room will help determine what we do with them"
"What do you want from me?" she asked.
"... the truth my dear. The truth will set your family free. I know what you are....Aurora... I've already figured that much out. Now I just need you to tell me everything you know about the program"
She closed her eyes, her breathing shaky. She considered her options. She loved her children, but... she was no traitor.
"I don't know what you are talking about. I can't tell you what I don't know."
"...sun... come on now." She said softly. A week smile come to her face
" just answer a few questions for me and I'll let you see your children ok?"
"What questions?" she asked.
"We will start simple. Are you an Aurora? Born in the matriarchy as a spy to infiltate shen?"
"No," she lied
Before her swim female interrogator could say another word the door slammed open again. A large intimidating man ran in
" you haven't got this feminist freak too talk yet? Are you that incompetent Shi Shi!? Su lan has the one in the other room singing like a canary already"
He angrily grab the hair of the bureaucrat and pulled on it
" tell us what you know you Little Orphan freak Show or I swear to God I will serve you your children for supper!"
" riyu! In The Name Of Heaven calm down!"
" shut up!" He yelled before pulling on her hair harder
LauchenoiriaYesterday at 9:02 AM
Sun Yafang hissed through her teeth at the pain.
"Please let me go," she asked him. "I don't know anything!"
The old woman sells her hair being released but a moment later her head was slammed into the table shattering her nose. Blood slowly starting to slow down
" what are you doing!"
Shi shi put herself in between h
The man and the Prisoner
" back off riyu"
He turned around and wipe the blood from the woman's
" im so sorry..."
Yafang gasped, involuntary tears gathering in her eyes at the pain.
"You didn't have to... shit!" she cried as she bled.
" shh...look if you don't start talking that brutes going to order me out of the room. He outranks me...hes...hes shingzi ren..." she whispered into her ear
" just give me something sun...for you kids"
" she better start talking. Those little brats will probably be at the labor camp by now" riyu said
"Labour camp!?" she gasped. "No..."
She thought about her daughter, who would definitely not do well in a labour camp. And she thought about the pain she was in. Which didn't matter, she was trained to handle worse pain than this. She'd known having children was a risk... and loving them was an even bigger one. She let out a whimper. She would just have to let herself and her family suffer.
"I won't tell you anything."
" well you heared the bitch..."
The man walked outside for a moment
Shi shi looked at her in horror
" oh god... please don't do this. They'll send you to the cube... don't let them do that to you. Come on just tell me something and I promise you can see your children. I can have them helicopter here within 2 hours...do it for them...for family"
"I don't know what the cube is, but I can't," she said, shaking her head slightly, then stopping as it made her feel dizzy after getting her head slammed into the table. "Please don't hurt my children, they have nothing to do with this, but I can't."
"... if you can help me I can't protect them...im so sorry...just...pray to whatver goddess you worship... maybe she can protect them from the hell..."
As she spoke 6 Men In Black cloaks came in the room. They walked over behind her and undid the vines that kept her on the table. And then they began to tear at her pajamas. The woman fekt her clothing torn from her.
And then two of the guards grabbed her arms and they all began to pull her out of the room and take her down a Long Hall
This time she fought back, struggling against them. She kicked out at them and pulled on her arms, snarling and reaching over to try and bite one of the men holding her.
She was slapped in the face for trying to bite one of them. Finally they came to what looks like a solid concrete wall one of the guards best against it and it slowly opened up. The light shined into a 2m by 2M by 2M cubic cell.
Cold air rushed out of it. The only thing inside was a shower head and a drain on the ground. The guards threw her in there till she skidded across the ground
She knocked against the wall and put her hand on it to steady herself, looking up, and shivering in the cold.
The door closed behind her.
She was alone.
Naked
In total darkness
Alone
She curled herself up in a ball in the corner, shivering, and began to cry for her children.
the empireYesterday at 9:31 AM
Riyu waited until he heard the desperate fighting disappear down another corridor.
The huge imposing man let out a sigh of relief before it looking at shi shi
"Femanist freak?" She said as her horrified look Twisted into a sick smile
" did i... over play my part miss"
" a little...still...you did good"
" thsnk you miss... I'm sorry we didn't break her"
" don't worry. She has more training than even I do as an S Class. Breaking her is going to be far more difficult than one interrogation session. Although probably not as difficult as I first thought...."
The taller interrogator and his female Superior walked out of the Chamber
" are we actually keeping the kids in a labor camp miss?"
" does it matter?"
" no... I suppose it does not. Say you hungry Miss?"
" it's almost time for our lunch break. I suppose we could go grab something to eat. What did you have in mind?"
" hmm... how about we try out that new Xiomeran place?"
" that sounds wonderful"
Tse Tai had look through the stack of files he had ordered from the archives four times over already. Checking them against the local archives. The documents from the hospital. Even school yearbooks. Nothing was adding up. There should have been nothing wrong here. Everything should have checked out.
And yet it was all coming up wrong. This was supposed to be a simple active procedure. Checking central archive files against local archive files as part of the background check process for someone potentially getting promoted to the Imperial committee.
Verifying that Central archive records matched local archive records. But there wasn't any local archive records. There was only Central Records kept digitally in the central archives rather than kept physically at the local ones.
Now it wasn't unheard of to have no local archive records. Things were lost and damaged over the long years. And they were honest mistakes with filing that happens from time to time. But this was different.
Tse had spent the last week digging through other archives to find anything. He had visited the hospital in which the person he was supposed to be looking at claimed to be born. And yet there was nothing.
He had traveled out to the provinces, gone to the primary and secondary school that she'd claim to attend before moving to Singse
And yet there was nothing. No teacher remembered her. No student that was in her supposed graduating class had ever heard of her. And most damningly there wasn't a single photo of her in any of her yearbooks.
It was as if she had just appeared at the age of 14 with paperwork saying she had lived a full life and yet no other evidence to back that claim.
There was no way to explain this away. There was just too much evidence in the form of lack of evidence. Letting out an exhausted sigh, he reached for the phone on his desk, picking it up.
"internal security...i… I think you need to send an agent down to office 2-21. There is something that I need to show you"
The door opened less than a minute after he had set down the phone. A man in those flowing black robes typical of an agent of his branch of the government walk through the door.
The bureaucrats had already laid out the evidence on the table. This wasn't his first time making this call. But he still felt terrible about what happened to the last person
He discovered after going through their paperwork…. The rumors of what had happened to him.
But that guilt was soon replaced by the fear of knowing something even worse would happen to him if he didn't report his findings and he was found out.
The man who looked like he was cloaked in a shadow sat across from the bureaucrat opening up the first manila folder and looking through its contents.
He slowly closed the file and moved to another one. Silently running his fingers over the pieces of paper. Being drawn to what the bureaucrat highlighted and underlined to emphasize its importance.
The bureaucrats watched the agents face slowly changed from an emotionless stony exterior comparable to a statue into one of surprise. Bits of shock and horror coming through his expressions.
He closed the last file and looked up towards the bureaucrats.
The two people stared at each other. Drowning together in an ocean of fear. Seeing one of the feared agents of the Shingzi Ren looking totally shocked was like an anchor for the bureaucrat.
One dragging him down into that ocean of fear even quicker than he would have gone otherwise.
There was a few minutes of inaction between them. As that ocean surrounded them and pushed against them with all the pressure it could muster. Threatening to crack their bones and tear their skin.
The deepest fear either of them had ever felt. A fear that grew even deeper as they looked in each other's eyes.
The agent started to swim up from that ocean of fear first though. He's stood up and grabrd a box, collecting all of the papers and documents within its before closing the lid
"... forget what you saw. Tell no one what transpired today."
The bureaucrats could only give a solemn nod as the agent walked out.
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7:12pm. The black Monastery. Headquarters if the Shingzi Ren, just outside of Singse
Grandmaster Lee folded his hands together over his desk as he closed the manila envelope. Within it was just two pieces of printer paper covered in a short and brief description of what had transpired as well as some attached photos. But in those two pages there was A deadly secret that could shake apart the foundation of the empire. The old Grandmaster didn't even know how to process it. He was Stern and quiet as some of the other ranking members of his order stood around him waiting for him to act decisively. The order was decentralized in most things. Usually lesser directors and agents could have acted on this. But the magnitude of what had just been revealed with something that only The Grandmaster himself could direct the actions of the organization on.
Finally the old man parted his lips. Letting a few words out as he leaned back in his chair and removed his glasses tossing them haphazardly onto the desk
" I have been a fool… and now the core of the Empire is exposed...Sun Yafang the chief engineer of Heaven's Gate... is a woman living under a false identity. "
"... the most important economic asset within the Empire has fallen to the enemy without a single shot being fired…" a voice speaking in a strange and foreign accent spok out.
The Grandmaster turned his attention towards that voice. a slight amount of anger towards the Immigrant agent present in his voice.
" obviously agent Nemo. The question is who does she work for. And what are they after"
"... I think you already know the answer to that Grandmaster" another voice said from the other side of the room. Director Kong.
" this is the eventuality that I have been telling you was going to happen since the Civil War in lauchnoria. The auroras.."
" the Aurora. the Aurora's! " The Grandmaster shouted cutting off the director." Oh trust me I know your opinion on them. You think that little backwards country could ever infiltrate his deeply into the Empire's they did Within lauchnoria...i...i will never allow such...such…"
He slowly started to sputter off. His words becoming less coherent
"... with all due respect Grandmaster...you are wrong...what we know about mrs. Sun is in line with what we know about the Aurora's. And even if we are wrong we can no longer allow her to remain free. We have to take her into custody…"
The Grandmaster nodded weekly and defeated. " ill...ill let you take charge director kong… take this woman into custody. Quietly. Obviously. I will inform the empress…"
" as you wish Grandmaster" the group bow their heads towards the leader of their order. All of them slowly starting to walk out at the old man went to the phone.
"... get me her majesty. I need to tell her something…"
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12:44 am.
Bolder point city, shen.
Housing bloc AB-2
Floor 29.
Room 4
The calm quiet of the government housing units of Boulder Pointe. Filled entirely with bureaucrats and there family. it was clean. Modern. Professional.
The last place you would expect a solid windowless van to pull up in front of. And another one to head around to the back. No one had ever seen those doors burst open wistfully Arms Tactical police units thrusting forward starting to make their way into the building.
Some getting to the roof and setting up rappelling gear. And others positioning themselves right outside the door.
And sounds of dread in horror filled the entire floor as everyone was woken up with a door being broken down and windows being shattered
And shen federal police yelling
" police raid! Evreyone up now!"
Sun Yafang woke with a start, confused. She'd lived this life so long by now that her old childhood instincts had been weakened, and so when she heard the crash, it took her a second to sit up in bed and glance around her.
As soon as she was looking up a flashlight started to shine in her face
" Get up!" The man yelled at her.
Woko looked into the lights with Terror. Completely speechless yes he did as he was instructed. The screening of her son and her daughter came into the room before the sound of them being forcibly pulled out of their beds also came through the walls
In a split second, she considered her options. She could fight... but her body was weaker than it used to be, and her family was there. She couldn't risk them coming to harm. Running wasn't an option, there was nowhere to go, she was cornered. So, she went with her last remaining option: go quietly and pretend she knew nothing about what was happening.
She stood up slowly, keeping the expression of confusion on her face even though it was far less genuine now than it was a few seconds ago, and stepped close to her husband, acting like she wanted his protection even though the idea rather disgusted her.
The guards moved the family of four into the main room by the door. One of them looked at his phone bruh moment. Making sure everything was correct on the small touch screen. After nodding he put it back in his pocket.
" cuff and bags them all"
As soon as he gave the odor bags were placed on all four of their heads and their hands were cuffed behind them. The federal police began to push them down the hallway and take them to the lobby
The elevator ride was far longer than it normally was. The guns being pointed at their backs and the muffled crying of her daughter and her son echoed in her ear
When they finally got down they heard to new voices but they hadn't heard up in the bedroom
" give us the woman. do what you want with the other three"
" under whose authority? Who the hell are.."
But the police officer suddenly got very quiet. His tone of voice change from commanding to very submissive
" oh...sorry sir"
" you didn't know Sergeant. Just do as I ask"
" yes sir"
She kept quiet, biting her lip and squeezing her eyes shut tighter. There was nothing she could do. The cries of her children hurt her but she had known that was a risk, once. She'd spent so long with things going well that she had almost forgotten the risk existed. But the day she'd wished for years now would never come was here, and there was nothing she could do but keep quiet.
The Aurora found herself thrown into the back of a car landing hard against the floor. Before she could even interact the stinging sensation of her flesh being pierced by a tiny needle stung her body. And then her body suddenly had no feeling at all. Her eyes didn't stay open and she slipped into unconsciousness.
When she awoke an undisclosed amount of time had passed. She was in a chamber. The walls for concrete. She sat on a table that was bolted into the floor. And her hands were firmly secured on to that table with another Bolt. She was wearing the same clothing she had when she had been pulled out in the middle of the night. Sitting there in a cold chair. Alone
She closed her eyes and took a couple of deep breaths. She tried to recall her training, from so long ago. She needed to keep her breathing steady, remember her mission and her loyalties. Tell them nothing.
Time continue to pass on words. Alone in that cold dark concrete room. Finally the door opened. The Shadows obscured the figure but walked in. But it was tall whatever it was. And wore a black cloak over it tunic of matching color. It's sat across from her and set down a stack of manila envelopes before pressing a button on the table. A recording symbol lit up.
"... this is Agent 23 J in processing room for. Prisoner 34118." The voice was feminine. Calm and relaxed. Almost bored
A pair of eyes looked at her, barely visible in the shadows.
"... please state your name and citizen ID number for the record"
"My name is Sun Yafang, and my ID number is 23561246," she answered, sounding confused and slightly afraid.
" and you hold what rank within the bureaucracy?"
"Class 4."
The mysterious woman pressed another button on the table. A smoke compartment opened and a lamp rose out of it which instantly illuminated and a lamp rose out of it instantly Illuminating the table as well as blinding for a woman who would spend so many hours in the dark
"... according to my records you are currently the chief engineer at the Heaven's Gate damn... is that correct?"
"That is correct, yes," she said, blinking in the light.
"... your records here are very impressive miss yufang. Scored in the 96th percentile on your civil service exam. Graduated near the top of your class for the Hydraulic Engineering program. An upstanding career in the bureaucracy... my records are correct arnt they?"
"They are correct, yes," she replied, warily.
" interesting..."
The woman pulled out the first manila folder and opened it up. It was a birth certificate. Her birth certificate
" do you recognize this?"
"I do, it's my birth certificate," she said, looking down at the document.
"... so you admit this is your birth certificate? You find nothing wrong about it? The hospital you were born in? Time and date?"
"No, I can see no errors," she said as her heart rate rose a little, her nerves increasing.
"... so can you explain to me why this document stored in the central archives has no twin at the local archives? And there are no records of this birth in the hospital?"
"I..." she paused, thinking. "I have no explanation. Perhaps the records were lost by some incompetent individual?"
"... perhaps. No one's perfect after all"
The woman closed the manila folder and slid it off to the side.
She got another folder out as well as a book underneath it. A class yearbook for a primary school. The one that her documents claimed she attended
She opened up the manila folder and showed her a certificate of graduation with her name on it
"... is this your graduation form from primary school?"
"It is," she nodded.
" it is? Interesting"
She picked up the boom and began flip through the pages
" what was your homeroom? What are some clubs you attended when you were in Primary School? You look like a chess club girl"
"I'm sorry, I don't remember. It was so long ago, and my memories are all mixed up with my memories of my kids' schools..." she trailed off. She shouldn't have mentioned her children, it was only making her nerves worse.
"...your children yes. I wonder what's happening to them " she said sinisterly as she slipped through the books a little more before setting it down and picking up another one.
"... funny. I don't see any mention of you in any of these. And me and my colleagues have been through them quite thoroughly. Can you explain why you're not in any of your primary school or secondary school yearbooks?"
"Ah," she began, though her heart rate was now horribly high, worrying about her children. "The thing is, I had this pathological fear when I was a child about getting my photo taken. I despised it, I thought I was ugly. So I'd always, well, feign sickness on picture day. I kind of got over it when I was a teenager though, after I'd lost a little weight."
"... you do know that that's not a valid excuse and someone would have taken your photo for record-keeping...any shen child knows this... we all miss picture day one Year and have to be chased down by the school staff to make sure it's done before their deadline..."
She closed the envelope and put it off to her side. The table was clear in between them now. She crossed her arms and stare directly into the Aurora's soul
"... you would know that if you grew up here. But there's no documented proof of you even existing until you were 14"
"I..." she trailed off. It was pointless. She couldn't come up with enough excuses. She had been warned not to be caught. She should have fought back when they tried to catch her. "I don't know why that is."
" oh I think you do."
She unfolded her arms and began to stretch across the table
" in fact I have a pretty good idea and I think we're both wasting a lot of time pretending like I haven't figured this out."
She placed her hand on top of the Aurora's
"... why don't you just come clean? You lost the game but that doesn't mean you have to lose everything. Just work with me and we can make sure your children stay safe"
"What are you going to do to them!?" her eyes flashed with fear.
" nothing... so long as you cooperate... all three of your children are being held in processing facilities at the moment. They're scared but unharmed. What happens in this room will help determine what we do with them"
"What do you want from me?" she asked.
"... the truth my dear. The truth will set your family free. I know what you are....Aurora... I've already figured that much out. Now I just need you to tell me everything you know about the program"
She closed her eyes, her breathing shaky. She considered her options. She loved her children, but... she was no traitor.
"I don't know what you are talking about. I can't tell you what I don't know."
"...sun... come on now." She said softly. A week smile come to her face
" just answer a few questions for me and I'll let you see your children ok?"
"What questions?" she asked.
"We will start simple. Are you an Aurora? Born in the matriarchy as a spy to infiltate shen?"
"No," she lied
Before her swim female interrogator could say another word the door slammed open again. A large intimidating man ran in
" you haven't got this feminist freak too talk yet? Are you that incompetent Shi Shi!? Su lan has the one in the other room singing like a canary already"
He angrily grab the hair of the bureaucrat and pulled on it
" tell us what you know you Little Orphan freak Show or I swear to God I will serve you your children for supper!"
" riyu! In The Name Of Heaven calm down!"
" shut up!" He yelled before pulling on her hair harder
LauchenoiriaYesterday at 9:02 AM
Sun Yafang hissed through her teeth at the pain.
"Please let me go," she asked him. "I don't know anything!"
The old woman sells her hair being released but a moment later her head was slammed into the table shattering her nose. Blood slowly starting to slow down
" what are you doing!"
Shi shi put herself in between h
The man and the Prisoner
" back off riyu"
He turned around and wipe the blood from the woman's
" im so sorry..."
Yafang gasped, involuntary tears gathering in her eyes at the pain.
"You didn't have to... shit!" she cried as she bled.
" shh...look if you don't start talking that brutes going to order me out of the room. He outranks me...hes...hes shingzi ren..." she whispered into her ear
" just give me something sun...for you kids"
" she better start talking. Those little brats will probably be at the labor camp by now" riyu said
"Labour camp!?" she gasped. "No..."
She thought about her daughter, who would definitely not do well in a labour camp. And she thought about the pain she was in. Which didn't matter, she was trained to handle worse pain than this. She'd known having children was a risk... and loving them was an even bigger one. She let out a whimper. She would just have to let herself and her family suffer.
"I won't tell you anything."
" well you heared the bitch..."
The man walked outside for a moment
Shi shi looked at her in horror
" oh god... please don't do this. They'll send you to the cube... don't let them do that to you. Come on just tell me something and I promise you can see your children. I can have them helicopter here within 2 hours...do it for them...for family"
"I don't know what the cube is, but I can't," she said, shaking her head slightly, then stopping as it made her feel dizzy after getting her head slammed into the table. "Please don't hurt my children, they have nothing to do with this, but I can't."
"... if you can help me I can't protect them...im so sorry...just...pray to whatver goddess you worship... maybe she can protect them from the hell..."
As she spoke 6 Men In Black cloaks came in the room. They walked over behind her and undid the vines that kept her on the table. And then they began to tear at her pajamas. The woman fekt her clothing torn from her.
And then two of the guards grabbed her arms and they all began to pull her out of the room and take her down a Long Hall
This time she fought back, struggling against them. She kicked out at them and pulled on her arms, snarling and reaching over to try and bite one of the men holding her.
She was slapped in the face for trying to bite one of them. Finally they came to what looks like a solid concrete wall one of the guards best against it and it slowly opened up. The light shined into a 2m by 2M by 2M cubic cell.
Cold air rushed out of it. The only thing inside was a shower head and a drain on the ground. The guards threw her in there till she skidded across the ground
She knocked against the wall and put her hand on it to steady herself, looking up, and shivering in the cold.
The door closed behind her.
She was alone.
Naked
In total darkness
Alone
She curled herself up in a ball in the corner, shivering, and began to cry for her children.
the empireYesterday at 9:31 AM
Riyu waited until he heard the desperate fighting disappear down another corridor.
The huge imposing man let out a sigh of relief before it looking at shi shi
"Femanist freak?" She said as her horrified look Twisted into a sick smile
" did i... over play my part miss"
" a little...still...you did good"
" thsnk you miss... I'm sorry we didn't break her"
" don't worry. She has more training than even I do as an S Class. Breaking her is going to be far more difficult than one interrogation session. Although probably not as difficult as I first thought...."
The taller interrogator and his female Superior walked out of the Chamber
" are we actually keeping the kids in a labor camp miss?"
" does it matter?"
" no... I suppose it does not. Say you hungry Miss?"
" it's almost time for our lunch break. I suppose we could go grab something to eat. What did you have in mind?"
" hmm... how about we try out that new Xiomeran place?"
" that sounds wonderful"
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