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[Misaki appears on the Plane with two comfortable-looking chairs, seeming quite uncomfortable herself.]

Sam Tyler. I need to speak to you.

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[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[She closes her eyes.] Yes. He killed his handler and got killed himself for doing it. No one would tell me why, but I knew it had to do with Amber and the Gate. It was so obvious. I was determined to get there, to get into the PANDORA facility before anything more could go wrong. The sunspot cycle was peaking, the same way it had just before South America.

And then the EPR launched an all-out attack on the Gate facility. There were tanks in the streets, people dying everywhere, and the stars just kept on falling. [She looks a lot older than twenty-seven for a moment.]

With Saito and Kouno's help, I made it to the Gate. One of my direct superiors was already there. He told me what they were going to do--how they were going to kill the Contractors, how Amber was trying to recreate the Heaven's Gate incident, which would have wiped out the entire Japanese archipelago.

[Silence.]

And then he told me about the Syndicate. Told me that it was an alliance of various covert ops groups and governmental agencies--told me that I was part of it, without knowing. And then he asked me if I wanted to join their cause higher up. [Mirthless smile.] Help shape the world in the way it was supposed to go.

[didorothy]

You turned him down.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[Rubs her eyes.] I did. By that time they were already preparing the particle accelerator to annihilate the Gate. I told them to stop. Telemetry showed BK201 wasn't even near the center of the Gate--he couldn't have triggered the explosion, if he would have in the first place.

[Long pause, and she smiles a bit.] He destroyed the accelerator instead. He saved them both--the Contractors and the humans of Japan. I'd recorded my conversation about the Syndicate, though of course it only led to a chipping away of some members. I'm sure they're still out there, trying to reorganize themselves. And I'm back to being a cop, though I hope I have a better idea of who I'm serving now. Contractors are becoming public knowledge, slowly, so the idea of annihilating them wouldn't go over too well. But I'm watching for the next sunspot cycle, because... [She shrugs.]

[She sags back into her chair.] Anything else?

[didorothy]

No, not at the moment. It's a bit... it's a lot.

Thank you, Misaki. Really. Thank you.

[a pause; he shuts his eyes for a while, processing information, and then opens them]

If I have any other questions, I will ask. If there's anything you want to know.... [holds his arms out. 'Ask away']

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[She looks up at the sky, smiling a little.] It is a lot. And you're welcome. It's... [She sighs.]

I'm sorry for not telling you sooner. The risk of someone from the Syndicate showing up here, or a Contractor--have you noticed? When someone from a certain reality appears here, it seems to attract other of their acquaintance. And then the potential for mergers...

[She shrugs.] It was a lot to risk.

And thank you. [Chuckle.] I'm a bit worn out, but if I think of anything later...

[didorothy]

I'll be very careful with how I share this information, I promise.

Of course. An IOU from each of us to the other, then.