This is an official audio long from Reformation Abroad.

Salutations and a very friendly hello from your friends at the Global Protection Agency.

With our Reformation Abroad program, we've teamed up with prison reform organizations across North America to offer the opportunity of a

lifetime for those incarcerated. Those lucky inmates will be tasked with

removing highly classified global waste by firing crates of these people,

uh, this waste into a black hole.

To find out more about this trustworthy and ecologically virtuous program,

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In the alley, the scent is stronger overpowering as I watch the overhead lamps

flicker and wink out one by one

God damn it no No! The girl appears briefly under the last streetlight. The

headphones snug against her ears, the walkman clasped to her hip. She's oblivious

as she walks, lost in her own world.

Hey, stop, I need to talk to you!

Then she swallowed up by the darkness again.

Helen, wait a second!

It strikes her in the gloom so fast she barely has time to scream.

She falls into the edge of the lamplight and lies there, bleeding, motionless.

The man's skin is scaly, flaking, and there are patches of soot on his cheeks.

He stares at me with eyes like midnight, eyes that are devoid of remorse,

devoid of humanity.

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