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Constructs? So it's not like this was done to a human.

[She grits her teeth.] Not in most cases.

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All these atrocities...

[sighs] Dolls, Contractors... any other apparent 'sub-humans' in your employ?

[a beat] I don't mean to implicate you. It's apparent you don't agree with the policy here.

[She rests her head in her hands.] I've seen cognizant Dolls. I helped smuggle two of them out of the country before they could be terminated.

[She leans back in the chair and stares up at the sky, a tiny, ironic smile on her face.] That was before they switched Doll induction and and termination to another department. I think they suspected me. But can't dismiss the heroes you parade around for publicity, can you? Sends the wrong message to the people who are supposed to trust you.

I somedays suspect that positive publicity's the only thing keeping our whole department from getting shut down. Which is why I usually like to be there when Gene talks to the press; it doesn't always turn out positive if I'm not.

Does the public know about Contractors and Dolls?

No. The government uses the M.E. to keep it quiet.

Have you told me what the M.E. is?

[Pauses.] No. Sorry. It's... Technology that was spawned from Gate research. It can alter and erase memories. It's the machine that they use to implant consciousness into Dolls, modify Dolls to give them temporary personalities for undercover work. That sort of thing. [She doesn't look at him.]

[frowns and leans forwards] Misaki?

[She does her best to keep emotion from her face when she looks back at him.] Yes?

If you want to stop, take a break before we keep on with this...

[ooc; SORRY. I LOST THE TAG. D:]

No. [Tiny smile.] Thank you, though. I would as soon just get it over with.

[[XD No problem.]]

All right... Contractors, payments for Contracts, Dolls, M.E., the Gate - Gates, the Astronomy Department. What else?

[Rubs her temple.] Now it gets complicated.

No worries; 'complicated' seems to be par for the course lately.

[Heh. And then she gets serious.]

We're going to get into details now that Li-kun was likely trying to protect you from. Should the wrong people from either his reality or my own appear here, knowing any of this can--and probably will--get you killed.

It's not so bad after the first time.

[more seriously] I'll keep the information to myself. I'll... try not to do anything to get myself killed. I promised Fumie.

Right. [Heavy sigh. And then silence. Where in god's name should she begin?]

I... suppose it starts with Heaven's Gate. At least, that's as far back as I know of the history. [Pause.] There was a war there. It's been called a lot of things, Heaven's Fall, other melodramatic titles. The war was between... god, between everyone. America, England, various South American dictatorships who thought they could gain themselves ground. Mexico had a small presence, and there were some other countries. The alliances were so tangled, I can't remember who all was helping who. They wanted the Gate. They all wanted it. This was shortly after the M.E. was developed.

[She leans forward, looking at the ground.] Something happened. Some Contractors serving England went rogue and sabotaged the Gate. At the time, no one but a select few knew what had happened or why. South America was nearly annihilated. It effectively ended the war. The Contractors involved disappeared.

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Do you know why now?

[Rich, dark rage clouds her eyes.] The scientists in control of the Gate were trying to kill the Contractors. All of them. All at once.

[She chews her lip thoughtfully.] There's something else I should try to explain, before we go any further. The people responsible--the ones who wanted to kill the Contractors. They were part of an international organization that I've only ever heard called 'the Syndicate'. They enjoyed melodrama, it seems.

And this Syndicate wanted to kill the Contractors why?

Why did Hitler want to kill the Jews?

So the Syndicate - and now your government - treated Contractors like subhumans.

Yes. The most terrifying part for me was when I realized that much of my government was the Syndicate. Which brings us, I suppose, to my personal involvement in this case.

[She considers for a while.] I thought I was just a police officer, doing my job, protecting my city from dangerous elements. Some agencies employed Contractors--I got to know an English agent named November 11 rather well--we did not. We worked with Contractors from other agencies, however. Particularly during the case I worked on that culminated in the Hell's Gate incident. [A pause.] I was tracking down a Contractor called the Black Reaper, Messier designation BK201.

[leans forwards, eyes on her, listening to the story with an expression showing a combination of human interest and copper's analytical thought, habitual after this many years]