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Something Phobic

Ed looked at the single camera standing opposite a large steel table. The contents of the room had been completely removed and replaced by furniture that made the room look more than an interrogation chamber than anything else, even though those were removed by Ed's order shortly after they had arrived back in South Africa. The seemed to swallow the table, steel chair, and camera whole as well as Ed, who was standing in the doorway.             Ian had told him that he wanted to log all of their experiences from the start to the Fall, and Ed found it amusing. Why, after all these years would the past be relevant to the future? If one thing Ian had taught him could be considered valuable, it was that never to hover in the past. He smirked and moved over to the table, pressed the record button on the camera, then went to sit down. Staring blankly at the camera, he began to smile.             "What am I doing," he mumbled and scratched at his beard. "Okay. So,

Something Explored

            Ian sat down in front of the camera and pressed the record button on the laptop. On the screen he could see himself, it was a strange thing to document what had happen in the past like this, but it was the best and easiest way.   “This is the video documentary of the Agency, after the Fall. This is entry one as transcribed by me, Ian Erasmus. First, the Agency was the only secret organisation hell bent on keeping life on Earth the same. While the Others tried to force military rule, we made sure that when you went to sleep tonight, you’d wake up to the same world tomorrow.     “So, where do I begin? I think it was close to fifteen years ago that I was recruited. Ed and Dev had been recruited a few months before me. The training was boring so I won’t talk of it. The first assignment, let’s start there. Paris, France, the city of love. A fitting place for a first assignment, and for a summer fling,”             Ian was sitting at a cafĂ© reading a newspaper. On th