sirenspull | video; ~5 pm

[Mary looks... well, alive, which is a bonus, but also frazzled and exhausted, with pale skin, dark circles under her eyes, lips chapped, hair falling out of her ponytail.

But more than that, she looks haunted.]

I'm back. I'm alive. [Her lips press together in a thin line. She bows her head and talks to her knees.] No thanks to those monsters.

I don't know if anyone else made it out... there were no- [sniffing hard to avoid tearing up.] -shelters. Nothing Darkness proofed. [Head still bowed tightly.] I don't know if any of those people I fought with made it out alive, but if they didn't, I'm going to tell you all right now.

[She finally looks up, eyes welling now with tears she refuses to cry.]

They hunted us. They bound us, put collars on us, they put us in cages. They chased us and hunted us down like we were fucking dogs and we couldn't-

[she claps a hand over her mouth, breathing hard to rein in her emotions. When she opens her eyes again, there's something chilling and deadened in her eyes.]

When I died at home- the first time, before I came here... it was a demon. A demon pinned me to the ceiling and burned me alive in my baby's nursery, and I didn't feel as violated as I did those two days. In that cage. [She shakes her head intently, looking away.] Those monsters kidnapped children. They wanted to see every one of us die like dumb fucking animals.

I wonder what would happen if I prayed for them. [There's a weird look in her eyes. Something you wouldn't leave your children alone with.] It's the Christian thing to do.

Would I get their souls into Heaven, or their heads on a plate?

[With a last ugly look at the NV, she turns the ~~public~~ feed off.]

[Private to Jinx]

I found a plus one.

[Private to the angels]

Did you hear my prayer? [The one she whispered as she lay dying.] Please, tell me none of you- tell me you didn't go there. Please.

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Wait- wait.

Those hunts actually still exist? That's what's been going on, and why people were missing?!

You've gotta be... That's-

I thought they only did that with murderers the city didn't want to lock up for life, and slaves that had some kind of special paperwork....

...Are you sure it wasn't more of those crazy core-cult people? They kidnapped a bunch of kids to try and make demons in the core wake up or something, last year.

I'm sure. They just wanted to go on with "the hunt." It was about fun.

And you've got no clue who these people were?

Newcomer killers used to catch us out alone- they cornered me in a parking lot, once...

[dying isn't something he talks about readily, but...]

There were at least two of them, but maybe more.

They weren't working alone.

They kidnapped me and brought me to these hunting grounds. I-

-I don't know if I should talk about it too much, since I want to go to the police.

Police'll just scribble it down and put it in the trash pile of "Under Investigations". Useless.

Not if we're loud enough.

What's your plan?

Get everyone from the hunt together, go to the police, then go to the media.

Is there anything I can do to help you guys?

Do you know anyone else who got taken? I didn't meet everyone who was there.

I heard um... a rumor there was a lot of people missing, over the network? But that was maybe a week ago- Kurt Hummel and Officer Marshall... my friend Gohan, but I haven't really talked to him since?

Yeah, that was them.

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