meadowlark | (no subject)

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Who the hell are you?

I can tell you this conversation's already getting me nowhere. I don't have anything. In fact, I have less than nothing, because I have big white blanks where I should have information. So I'll take everything I can get.

I've got even less than that, which makes this little more than the blind leading the blind.

[a moment passes, and then Sumio sends another message:]

I can tell you there was no reason for me to be kidnapped, and no one I could imagine who'd go to this length to do it. I was already being kept exactly where I was meant to be.

Right, except one of the blind has control over the security systems, and the other doesn't.

Why do you think you were kidnapped?

Right. Point taken.

I have been in jail for months. The sentence was fair. No one would have broken me out.

No reason to kidnap you and no reason for someone to break you out of jail. But you're here.

What were you in for?

You’re expecting a lot of honesty for some nameless lines of text in my brain.

I'm expecting honesty because if you're all as lost as you're saying you are, you want answers as much as me. Also, security systems, remember?

You can call me El.

...My name is Sumio. Two friends and I detonated explosives that destroyed the abandoned site of the town we grew up in. [among other things.] I won't go any more specific than that.

What have you gleaned from asking others? By "all", I assume you mean the people I arrived with.

Why? You just hated it that much?

So far I've gleaned that this is the strangest night of my life, and that it's probably going to just keep getting stranger.

It's a little more complicated than that. But I did say I wasn't going to explain any further.

Me too. What a coincidence.

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