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Re: Audio

[ukan]

[Slowly:] I can ask. What recordings do you want exactly?

Re: Audio

[crab_rangoon]

Just the ones from the last - oh, let's say week before my death. He did a lot of repeats.

Audio

[ukan]

All right.

Am I going to get to hear them?

Re: Audio

[crab_rangoon]

I - yes.

You probably should.

Re: Audio

[ukan]

[A little gentler] What's on them?

Re: Audio

[crab_rangoon]

The truth. Or, the truth that the Golden Path hears.

Criticisms against me.

Re: Audio

[ukan]

And rumors, no doubt?

I've been wondering about that. How they spread information about you, if they exaggerate or stay true to their experiences.

Re: Audio

[crab_rangoon]

Ajay took out the radio towers and they had the radio frequencies put back.

I want to know.

I need to hear it. I need to hear their truth, Lark.

Re: Audio

[ukan]

All right. I'll see what I can do.

[And two days later:]

I have about a week's worth here. I'll let you hear them alone first.

Re: Audio

[crab_rangoon]

Damn, I'm surprised I got anything at all.

Thanks.

Re: Audio

[ukan]

Of course. Let me know how it goes for you.

Re: Audio - cw; drug mention/guns in link

[crab_rangoon]

[And after a while, Pagan just plays this.]

Kim Jong-un's a whiny loser.

audio

[ukan]

Yes he is.

[He listens to it, gives Pagan a moment.] What are your thoughts?

Re: audio

[crab_rangoon]

I thought it would make me angry. Or defensive.

Mostly?

I hate his voice. Not his words.

Re: audio

[ukan]

Do you agree with his words?

Re: audio

[crab_rangoon]

[A sigh.] Well, he's not wrong. It's an exaggeration, but - it was the truth.

The essence of it. I did control the only airport in the country and the planes did contain drugs.

Re: audio

[ukan]

What would you want him to say about you now?

Re: audio

[crab_rangoon]

I -

[He pauses.]

The same thing. The truth. In his stupid, fucking unfunny way.

Re: audio

[ukan]

The truth is going to change when you go home.

Re: audio

[crab_rangoon]

Yes. But I don't want to start up my propaganda machine. Not the way it was before.

Re: audio

[ukan]

What will you have them say instead when you get home? The first day.

Re: audio

[crab_rangoon]

The first day?

That I survived a fucking helicopter crash. Maybe I really am a god.

And then? The end of Sabal and Amita. And then the opening of the airport. Appointing of advisors, foreign and domestic. Beginning of elections. Trials.

Work.

Re: audio

[ukan]

Do you have lists of candidates for those roles? It might take a decade or so before the people are able to adjust to elections.

Re: audio

[crab_rangoon]

Yes. I have a few names. The rest I will get from references.

Re: audio

[ukan]

All right.

I'm proud of you. I don't know what the Admiral's version of your graduation is, but you're doing the right thing for your own reasons.