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.ps 10
He wasn't Cameron, or Andrew, or Shinji, or Carmine, or Stan, or
Daisuke, or Daisuke's boss.  He wasn't even himself.  He knew that
now.  It had all been a setup. Built on top of him, to provide him with a
framework in which to answer the questions they wanted to ask.
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The interrogation never ended.  The interrogator never left.  The
questions were always still being asked.
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He tried to remember each phase, the details, but already it was all
slipping away.  How was he supposed to tell the interrogator what he
wanted to hear when he couldn't even keep track of the construct used
to pry it out of him?  It was all he could do to respond, at all.  He
simply didn't know the answers.
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Let's try again: Cameron and Andrew, dead.  Shinji (sorry, Carmine),
dead.  Shinji...  he didn't know.  Stan, back at the Post Office
(unless he was at home, or out on his route).  Daisuke, doing some job
for his boss.
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He was pretty sure that he had gotten all of that right, but there was
never any indication of failure or success.  Just more questions. 
The cell door would creak and he would
be alone again.  The cell door would creak and he would have company.
After a while he stopped trying to distinguish the two states.  To
him, it was all the same.
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Geo sat on the floor.
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The frame dissolved.
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Plot concludes.