Twenty-Fourth Bolt
[Dated just after White Horse]
I guess I should be truthful with everyone, especially after what happened today.
First of all, I want to apologize for a few things. For taking out a Gespenst without authorization and acting on my own. And most of all, I want to apologize for lying to you all for so long.
That message that everyone got wasn't a hoax. My actual name is, in fact, Elizabeth Montgomery, and I'm from a small cluster of colonies called New Theia. Good luck finding any records on my previous existence; as far as I know, those have been long gone. Zoe Kerison, as far as I know, was a civilian from America whose identity I was given when I left.
My dad... well, I don't remember him much, but he was a scientist on a project to terraform an asteroid for temporary use that went tragically wrong. The reason I even mention this is because that is why we have to deal with N-DEF and why I'm even here with the GDF to begin with. It's difficult. The long short of it is that a certain guy named Darwin Gray used the situation to move into a position of power, and when he did, life suddenly got difficult for us.
The terrorist accusation also, unfortunately, bears some truth as well. We--meaning my uncle and a fair-sized group of us--tried to stand up to him. He created his own hostile situations in order to make himself the hero. He persecuted and killed innocent people for not seeing eye to eye with him, labeling them as enemies to the people. Building up a military in secret like they have. Funding pet-projects like Project Lost Lamb.
I found out about it after doing a bit of investigative work on the NAII suit we retrieved a while back. They're farming psychics. Newtypes and Psychodrivers. Making them using that horrible AI system of theirs from mundanes, people with absolutely no latent abilities and driving them insane, or worse. And the worst part is, they're using those people that they point fingers at. Some of my friends might even be part of that.
I might have been subjected to that if Michael hadn't gotten me out when he did.
Please understand, I didn't come to the GDF to be a spy or to sabotage you or the like. It isn't like that at all. I was found, scouted, and I decided that the best place to hide would be in plain sight, where no one would look. Unfortunately, that's made things a bit hairy, and I'm sorry. My not going with them has likely made it worlds worse. They won't stop. They'll defame the GDF, do everything in the power to take us down. I can't even completely say what they'll throw at us, but I can theorize.
But this. This is who I am. No more lies, no more pulled punches. Take it however you want. I don't care anymore. I'm too tired to run away from it.
[Filtered to L'Angley]
Why did you risk that? There are plenty of other stronger Psychodrivers and Newtypes on base that could have replaced me. Like Aya or Kamille? You didn't have to come chasing after me like that...
And pulling me up like that? Why do you have to be such a frigging show-off? It made my heart jump a little. Maybe.
I guess I should be truthful with everyone, especially after what happened today.
First of all, I want to apologize for a few things. For taking out a Gespenst without authorization and acting on my own. And most of all, I want to apologize for lying to you all for so long.
That message that everyone got wasn't a hoax. My actual name is, in fact, Elizabeth Montgomery, and I'm from a small cluster of colonies called New Theia. Good luck finding any records on my previous existence; as far as I know, those have been long gone. Zoe Kerison, as far as I know, was a civilian from America whose identity I was given when I left.
My dad... well, I don't remember him much, but he was a scientist on a project to terraform an asteroid for temporary use that went tragically wrong. The reason I even mention this is because that is why we have to deal with N-DEF and why I'm even here with the GDF to begin with. It's difficult. The long short of it is that a certain guy named Darwin Gray used the situation to move into a position of power, and when he did, life suddenly got difficult for us.
The terrorist accusation also, unfortunately, bears some truth as well. We--meaning my uncle and a fair-sized group of us--tried to stand up to him. He created his own hostile situations in order to make himself the hero. He persecuted and killed innocent people for not seeing eye to eye with him, labeling them as enemies to the people. Building up a military in secret like they have. Funding pet-projects like Project Lost Lamb.
I found out about it after doing a bit of investigative work on the NAII suit we retrieved a while back. They're farming psychics. Newtypes and Psychodrivers. Making them using that horrible AI system of theirs from mundanes, people with absolutely no latent abilities and driving them insane, or worse. And the worst part is, they're using those people that they point fingers at. Some of my friends might even be part of that.
I might have been subjected to that if Michael hadn't gotten me out when he did.
Please understand, I didn't come to the GDF to be a spy or to sabotage you or the like. It isn't like that at all. I was found, scouted, and I decided that the best place to hide would be in plain sight, where no one would look. Unfortunately, that's made things a bit hairy, and I'm sorry. My not going with them has likely made it worlds worse. They won't stop. They'll defame the GDF, do everything in the power to take us down. I can't even completely say what they'll throw at us, but I can theorize.
But this. This is who I am. No more lies, no more pulled punches. Take it however you want. I don't care anymore. I'm too tired to run away from it.
[Filtered to L'Angley]
Why did you risk that? There are plenty of other stronger Psychodrivers and Newtypes on base that could have replaced me. Like Aya or Kamille? You didn't have to come chasing after me like that...
And pulling me up like that? Why do you have to be such a frigging show-off? It made my heart jump a little. Maybe.