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61: The Defector

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July 12, 1884 Of the many mysteries of The Movement, one that always beckoned whispers was our deep understanding of The Friends. We seemed to have a sort of special sense of their ways. We could often predict how they would react. As you might expect, this sense would frequently come in handy. But...where did it come from? As I climbed the resistance ranks, I eventually came face to face with the answer: The Defector. YY3020 was our most closely guarded secret. Not only did we risk a massive response from The Friends, but we also risked members of The Movement protesting. How could we trust this monstrous creature? The truth is stranger than fiction, as they say. YY3020 had befriended Mary Cassatt many years ago, bonding over a love of Romanticism-era art. Then, the story goes, the creature had begun to feel something resembling a human emotion: guilt. Pustules on their body started to seep saline liquid in what appeared to be a grotesque form of weeping. Eventually, YY3020 told Mary they couldn’t live with themselves any longer. That they were at the end. That’s when an idea was hatched. They would move into one of our safe houses. Become one of us. Commit treason and be grateful for it. From this, we learned many things about our oppressors’ ways. Not least of which was that the Friends were not the slightly humanoid form we had imagined. No, for when their guard was down...when they were settled in, they grew into these wondrous beings that would take up massive rooms and halls. They’d become what I could only describe as a forest in miniature. -CV

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