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friend from last night. She’s pretty upset.”
    â€œAnd she’s got a sister there?”
    â€œThat’s what she said.”
    â€œShit. Okay.”
    He starts down the stairs. I tap back into my feeds. They’re pretty much the same thing over and over again, from different vantages: ­people alive and doing ­people things, then ­people thrashing around and spewing shit and blood and puke out of every orifice, then ­people dead. They all cut out about ten or fifteen seconds after things start going crazy. The ends of the drone feeds all look like they lost flight control right before the cutout. The satellite and fixed-­camera feeds just end. I pull up a chat frame next to the vid.
    Sir Munchalot:
    Drew P. Wiener:
    Sir Munchalot:
    Drew P. Wiener:
    The fact that Drew was able to pull the clips before Sauron’s Eye redacted them means the NatSec bots are about ten seconds slower than Drew’s. That’s good to know. The fact that the feeds got redacted at all, on the other hand, means that NatSec has invoked terror-­response protocols. This is also good to know, because it means that possession of these clips could probably get all of us tossed down the memory hole.
    Hayley 9000:
    Argyle Dragon:
    Fenrir:
    Argyle Dragon:
    Fenrir:
    Argyle Dragon:
    Fenrir:
    Hayley 9000:
    Fenrir:
    Argyle Dragon:
    Fenrir:
    Sir Munchalot:
    Fenrir:
    Sir Munchalot:
    Fenrir:
    Angry Irish Inch:
    Inch drops a link to an audio file. I stream it.
    â€œ . . . need to know what we’re dealing with here. What’s the kill rate?”
    â€œEstimated at eighty-­eight percent currently. Survivors appear completely unaffected. No deaths observed since the initial strike.”
    â€œDo we have containment?”
    â€œAffirmative. Eighty-­plus percent of survivors are children. They’re mostly staying put. We’ve had a few takedowns on the perimeter. Expect more in the next two hours.”
    â€œAre we a go on the burn?”
    â€œAffirmative. Getting assets into position now.”
    â€œDo we have consensus on that?