Classified Files- Human Untouched: Requiem of the State

Interview Transcript #4

Subject: Seargent Mikhail Vasiliev
Gender: M
Age: 38
Occupation: State Employee

Interviewer: R E D A C T E D
Gender: R E D A C T E D
Age: R E D A C T E D
Occupation: State Employee

In the following transcript based on the interviews taken, the interviewer will be termed as 'A' and the interviewee will be termed as 'B'.

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-door opens--footsteps---loud stomp-chair clatters-

B: Sir.

A: I'm not def-

-NAME REDACTED-: At ease, Sergeant.

B: -foot stomp- Sir.

A: -chair screech- How's it going, Sergeant?

B: Good, sir.

-NAME REDACTED-: -chair screech- Sit down, Sergeant.

B: Sir. -chair screech-

A: So, while we set up, tell us what you noticed about Terra in the weeks leading up to this.

B: I submitted reports to General Robyn. It's all there.

A: Humour me.

B: Yes sir. Terra never recovered from her parent's death. She hasn't been the same since. She's quieter, had periods where she doesn't want to see any of us, or talk to any of us, and has overall been just... not herself. I did see some of her behaviour and mannerisms return once she cleared her parents names. The burden she was carrying around lifted from her so visibly, but we didn't spend that time as... we didn't savour that time with her as much as we should have because we were angry that she left us behind to take on something so dangerous alone.

A: I did hear about you three getting arrested at the airport for buying tickets to New Artoca. However... it is not in your report.

B: Terra cut a deal with General Robyn to get those striked from our records.

A: What was the deal in exchange for?

B: The official apology by the State for killing her parents without reasonable cause or looking further into their backgrounds.

A: I see. That takes some balls.

B: Hers are clearly bigger than ours.

-NAME REDACTED-: In many different ways. Her file is thicker than your mission files combined. She's been on the State's radar ever since she moved to... Sector 11. There were even considerations of turning her into an informant once she was eighteen.

B: Knowing her, she would never agree.

A: Why is that?

B: It's hard to explain if you don't know her.

A: I've been hearing that a fair bunch. At the risk of repeating myself, humour me.

B: Terra is careful. If she ever goes into something, she's in it with an almost fanatical absorption. Her ending up in a profession that is against the State- honestly, it would not be good for the State. Her records in the Rebellion and the State missions are more than good enough to prove what I'm saying right. Terra would never flip. She'd go to prison and leave with the head of the warden.