[It'd be a lie to say she had a speech prepared or anything like that. How do you explain this? How do even the most sane and stable of people explain something like this? How do they lay it out all in a line: this is how I was lied to, and how I lied to you in turn; this is how I was locked in place like a cog into another, how I was betrayed, this is how I died. How do you tell someone that you knew, you knew, and you didn't tell them? You let them lie for you.]
[She doesn't know. What she does know is that Alana should not have had to fight against Hannibal. Nobody fights Hannibal and wins.]
[Not yet, a little voice whispers. But someday. Someone will. She thinks of the mask.]
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[It'd be a lie to say she had a speech prepared or anything like that. How do you explain this? How do even the most sane and stable of people explain something like this? How do they lay it out all in a line: this is how I was lied to, and how I lied to you in turn; this is how I was locked in place like a cog into another, how I was betrayed, this is how I died. How do you tell someone that you knew, you knew, and you didn't tell them? You let them lie for you.]
[She doesn't know. What she does know is that Alana should not have had to fight against Hannibal. Nobody fights Hannibal and wins.]
[Not yet, a little voice whispers. But someday. Someone will. She thinks of the mask.]
[She finds her voice.]
He was the man on the phone, Alana.