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The interview

Im sitting here in this well appointed office with its wall to wall bookshelves.

Opposite a man so slimy I want to gag from his coiffed hair to his watery green eyes.

Everything about him screams serial killer.
Or child molester I dont know but he gives me the creeps.
Im only here because my mom wanted me to come.

I've answered all his questions im playing along like im supposed to.
"You like war?"
"Yes"

He smiles looks at his ipad then looks at me.

"I like the aftermath more so than actual war"

"Care to elaborate miss Kinsella"

"Only by experiencing true horror can humans evolve"

"You like the aftermath"

"Like is not exactly the word I would use"

"What word would you use"

"Mmmm..."

I shake my head and look at the books again.

"Ancient weaponry?"

"The greatest war against one of the greatest generals of all times was won with bows,spears and catapults"

"Greatest general?"

"Hannibal"

"Some would say he was a tyrant"

"Some would"

"Hannibal was cannibalistic"

"Yes he was its said he ate the hearts of his enemies to gain their strengths."

"Thats not what your typical 17 year  old girl thinks about ?"

"Im not your typical 17 year old girl "

"Yes thats why you where invited to participate in this interview process."

"Thankyou mr..."

I realise I've been in this room for 45 minutes with this person and I dont know his name.

"That will be all miss kinsella the cadet outside will take you to the next interview room."

I stand and walk to the door I look back at him and say.
"Im named Hannibal for a reason....I never leave an enemy alive."

In the hall a cadet greats me and says "this way sir"

Even though im a girl he just called me sir its a respect thing I gather.

He takes me to an auditorium and hands me a card with my name and seat number on it.

He walks to the row and points to my seat there are about 20 of us in here the room dims after a few minutes.

We are directed to put on the head pieces and look under our seats for a package.

Inside is a pair of glases,two hand sized sheets of transfer paper with small fingerprint sized micro dots on them.

A blank black card with just a small mirco chip inbeded in the left hand corner of the card.

The the headsets all wake at the same time with loud static the volume is adjusted and a man speaks.

HE talks about war, famine ,crisis and the endgame.
All this takes about 20 minutes.

He then tells us to put on the glasses and keep the card safe .

The glasses are some kind of high tech device because I can see an over lay we are directed to apply the 14 microdots to our hands.

First a demonstration then we all very efficiently place them one on each finger tip and two on the palms it takes about ten seconds and they litrally melt into the skin.