[Forta sits across from the soldier that killed Utavi. They are in a blocked off area of the wall designated for 'interviews'. Where Forta gained the trust of soldiers and get information from them. The soldier sits in a green old beat up cushioned chair. Forta sits in a similar grey one. What the soldier doesn't know was that Qatil and Steve could hear and see what was going on through two cracks in the wall. Steve takes notes.]

Forta: "So what's your name?"

Soldier: "I uh Kolegara. My buddies call me Kole"

Forta: "So, I just wanted to ask why you did kill Utavi."

Kole: "Utavi? Was that her name?"

Forta: "Yes Utavi, her daughter is Ata Kira and her husband Suteru."

Kole: "Fuck. Her husband fighting for your side?"

Forta: "He was going to, but now he decided to spend his time taking care of Ata Kira and the orphans we house in the southern walls."

Kole: "Oh...how are they doing."

Forta: "Listen Kole, dwelling on what affects your decision had is not what I am here for. I am here to ask you why you did what you did."

Kole: "Well, I'm not sure. I thought everyone would fight with me. I guess that's not how it works as a soldier. I'm so use to the gang mentality."

Forta: "Hm, what gang were you in?"

Kole: "Morderes."

Forta: "So you know my friend James?"

Kole: "Yeah somewhat."

Forta: "What made you decide to join the Morderes."

Kole: "Money really."

[Forta looked over the man. He had short auburn hair and deep blue eyes. He seemed guilty and confused about the whole ordeal.]

Forta: "Fraus pays you?"

Kole: "Fraus?"

Forta: "Fraus is Mayor's real name."

Kole: "O-oh. Well he use to. Now with the lack of supplies coming in he pays us with food each day."

Forta: "Did you enjoy your first meal here?"

Kole: "Yes, yes it was delicious. I missed eating potatoes and pork."
Forta: "I'm glad. We want you all to be comfortable here."

Kole: "Why?"

Forta: "Why not? We are all humans, why fight and kill you all for no reason?"

[Kole shrugged.]

Kole: "More soldiers may come in after us."

Forta: "They are welcome to stay as well."

Kole: "What game are you playing?"

Forta: "No game, we just want to minimize deaths for both sides. We can solve this in a mature way."

Kole: "I find that hard to believe since you were the ones that attacked us in The Hall."

Forta: "Well, believe it or not those were civilians that attacked you. All the organizers to this rebellion were trying to stage a protest not an attack."

Kole: "Oh really? My brother died in that attack."

[Kole's bright blue eyes pierce Forta's skin. Forta clears her throat and quickly glances behind her to the crack where Qatil was watching.]

Forta: "Kole, I'm very sorry to hear that. We really didn't mean for it to be an attack. We wanted to do things peacefully we really really did."

[Kole stares at Forta. She looks tired and exasperated.]

Kole: "That won't bring him back."

Forta: "I know. Nothing I do will and I know that."

Kole: "How would you know that?"

Forta: "Will anything you do bring Utavi back?"

[Kole is silent and then stares at the floor for a moment.]

Kole: "I guess that makes us even?"

Forta: "But neither of us are happy Kole. Will either me or Fraus be happy when both of our armies are dead and we are the only ones left? I know I won't be."

Kole: "Listen you have a lot of more experienced soldiers you should be talking to. I know a guy in my squadron who killed a family because they lived in a house with enough supplies to keep his former squadron fed for the rest of their mission. You shouldn't be talking to some guy who on his first mission panicked and killed a rebel leader."

Forta: "Now Kole, I'm happy to talk to you or anyone else. But if you want to return to your room go ahead."

[Kole nods, gets up and leaves the room. Forta looks at the pad of paper she wrote on. There is nothing but doodles. No, Forta knew nothing about how people think or any of the sort. She was merely making them feel welcome. If they feel welcome, they tell secrets.]

Qatil: "That was rough."

Forta: "Yeah bring in whoever else volunteered."

Steve: "Just one more person. A woman by the name of Desole."

[The door opens up to reveal a rebel soldier had escorted the women to the room and let her in. She says nothing as she walks in, the door closing behind her and sits on the seat in front of Forta. The woman was tall with a muscular build. She has beautiful, straight blond hair pulled back into a tight ponytail. Her eyes are a dark brown.]

Forta: "Hello, what is your name?"

Desole[deh-sole-eh]: "Desole."

Forta: "Are you finding the place comfortable?"

Desole: "Yes very much actually. Better then the bunker we live in back at base."

Forta: "Glad to hear it. What can I help you with?"

Desole: "Well, I don't really know how to explain it. But I have killed many people. I don't remember why exactly, or-or how many. I remember a little girl, a tall woman, some family somewhere and rebel soldiers. There are some others but they don't fit exactly in my memory. Sometimes people tell stories of how I bravely take on entire squads of rebels all by myself, but I don't remember them. The more I picture what I can, the more I feel detached from it. I feel as though...I don't regret anything."

[Forta nods and pretends to write something on her pad.]

Forta: "I see. Well you obviously have been traumatized by these events. Your brain doesn't want you to remember them so it blocks out as much as it can."

Desole: "But it's only been happening since my best friend and his husband died in battle with me. Right as this war started."

Forta: "W-well sometimes our brains-they start t-to uh…"

[Forta starts to have a headache and then smells burning wood. She is suddenly transported in her mind…

Forta: "KIKI!"

[Forta runs over to Kiki and picks her up. She runs out of the camp, and far enough where she will be safe from the flames.]

Forta: "Uuuh gotta keep you safe."

[In a hurry, Forta builds a hole and puts Kiki in it.]

Forta: "I'm so sorry about this but can't let the monsters get you."

[Forta runs back to the camp and into Aina's house. Things have fallen, the place was unrecognizable and on fire. Aina was trapped under wood that had fallen down on her. Nevin stood in front of her, trying to pull her out.]

Forta: "NEVIN! Nevin, sweetie run out of the camp and keep going until you find Kiki, and stay with her!"

[Nevin does as she says, crying loudly the entire time.]

[Forta turns to Aina.]

Forta: "I'm gonna get you out of there!"

[She starts to lift the wood.]

Aina: "Forta? Forta no."

Forta: "What? I can't just leave you here."

[Forta can see Aina is crying. Forta tries to be brave but starts to cry as well. Aina's face is covered in ash. Her lip is bleeding. Her head bruised and also bleeding.]

Aina: "I'm so sorry. I could have prevented this. But h-he threatened me. Abused me. I-I didn't want you all to get hurt I'm so sorry. Take this."

[Forta now notices Aina holding her diary in her hand. Aina gives it to her.]

Aina: "Tell Shiko I love him. And tell the kids they meant the world to me."

Forta: "Aina you can't be serious. We can get you out of here."

Aina: "Even if you can, both my legs are broken. I'm not worth it GO!"

[Forta unsure of what to do, continues to try and pull Aina.]

Aina: "LEAVE ME!"

[With the sudden scream of Aina Forta jumps out of her chair.]

Forta: "NO I WON'T LEAVE YOU TO DIE!"

[Desole stares at her with wide eyes.]

Desole: "What the fuck?"

[Forta stares off into space where she had seen Aina in her mind. She returns back into the moment and looks down at Desole.]

Forta: "I-I...my friend...she was, she was right there."

Desole: "Reliving your nightmares I see. Sounds like you were trying to save a friend."

Forta: "Y-yeah."

Desole: "Didn't work out did it?"

[Forta shakes her head.]

Desole: "I'll go back to my room now."

[Desole gets up and leaves the room.]

Steve: "Forta...what was that?"

Forta: "I-I don't know."

scene 2:

[Forta is laying in bed at night. She is tossing and turning as she dreams…

Forta: "FUCK!"

[Forta winces and starts to cry. She punches the iron bars again.]

[Forta is on her knees and hits the iron bar one more time. It gives out and breaks. Forta is crying. She stares at her hands that are now covered in blood and scars.]

[Forta wakes up suddenly. Her eyes are wide and she is scared. She turns over to Steve and holds him as he continues to sleep. Instinctively his arms wrap around her. She quickly falls asleep and into another dream…

[Forta finally makes it all the way up the tracks. As she gets off she sees she is in Kreten's room. It is made entirely of iron, the floor covered in red carpets. There is a bed and a large chest, but nothing else. Except for Kreten, sitting on the edge of his bed.]

Kreten: "Well well well. I thought you may get out, but de-op me...that takes some skill."

Forta: "What?"

[Forta takes a closer look at Kreten, she notices he is bleeding from his mouth.]

Kreten: "Ah yes. You don't know what you did. That's fine. But turns out this is what happens when you eat a stack of rotten zombie meat. You learn something new everyday."

Forta: "You ate?"

Kreten: "[giggles]Quite. I need to now, thanks to you."

Forta: "So that's what those buttons did."

Kreten: "Ugh, not only was I de-opped, but by someone who just saw a block and started pushing buttons! Embarrassing."

Forta: "You had powers we don't. When did you discover them?"

Kreten: "Now that's really none of your business is it? Just because I can't fly, doesn't mean I can't blow you all to pieces."

Forta: "You'd be killing yourself too."

Kreten: "Maybe… maybe not."

[Forta glances at the trigger switch, next to the door and then to Kreten. She dashes towards it, sword in hand. As she just gets past Kreten he stands up.]

Kreten: "Sorry to disapoi-AAAAHHH"

[Forta shuts him up with an arrow in his eye. She regrets not hitting him in the heart but she had little time to aim. She runs to the switch, takes her diamond sword and wedges it between the switch and the wall. She pulls and pulls and Kreten screams, trying to pull out the arrow in his eye.]

Kreten: "AAAHHHH FUUUCK."

[The switch gives out, pulling out of the wall. Red stone dust goes everywhere on the walls and a bit on Forta.]

Kreten: "SHIT! YOU LITTLE SHIT!"

[Kreten gets up and grabs a splash potion. He is bleeding from his eye and his mouth now. He breathes heavily and moves sluggishly. He seems to wince as he moves. Forta, not knowing what it was panics and exits the house running out.]

Forta: "HELLO? HELLO ANYONE HERE?"

[There is no answer. It is now dark. Forta panics and runs out of the camp and into the woods.]

[When Forta wakes again is is morning and Steve is dressing himself. He has on only a shirt.]

Forta: "Steve!"

Steve: "Yeah?"

Forta: "I had bad dreams last night."

[Forta looks scared and innocent, two things Steve was not use to seeing.]

Steve: "What were they?"

Forta: "I was trying to get out of the prison Kreten put me in. Then I had shot him in the eye and broke the TNT switch."

Steve: "Sweetheart...you want me to cover up before I hug you?"

Forta: "I don't care."

[Forta starts to cry and Steve crawls back into bed and holds her. He rubs her back.]

Steve: "Ssshhh, it's ok baby. He's gone now."

Scene 3:

[Forta is in a soldiers room. There are 100 soldiers they had managed to capture. Some are as young as 10, others as old as 60. There were 10 rooms each with 5 bunk beds for them. The rooms are each labeled 1-10. Every day the soldiers were entertained with shows, songs and activities for them to do. Each room is a group that does things together that day. They vote and then a rebel guard would take them and supervise them. Right now Forta is in room #7. She is making the beds to take her mind off of the dreams and flashbacks. She finishes making the last one as Ata Kira walks in. Her hair to her shoulders, she looked much like her mother did as she walked in expressionless.]

Ata: "Hi miss."

Forta: "Ata, how are you?"

Ata: "I'm ok I guess. All things considered."

Forta: "You are allowed to cry, you know that right?"

Ata: "Well yeah, maybe later when no one is around."

[Forta nods in understanding and puts a pillow on a bed.]

Forta: "How is your father?"

Ata: "Busy, always working with the kids. Then once he puts them to bed he comes back to our room, and cries himself to sleep."

Forta: "I'm sorry to hear that. Your father is a good man. Your mother was a good woman, and you are an obvious product of their goodness."

Ata: "What do you mean?"

Forta: "You are a mature young adult. A good person, I would say."

Ata: "But I-"

Forta: "If I can fall asleep next to someone who kills a person almost daily, I can accept almost anything you have ever done in your short 14 years."

[Ata nods and looks at her feet a moment.]

Ata: "What if we left this place?"

Forta: "What?"

Ata: "What if we like...lived outside of these walls. Built houses out of nothing and farmed our own goods. I heard you done that with Shiko and Steve."

Forta: "Yeah, I also did it with Aina but she isn't alive anymore is she?!"

[Forta's sudden frustration sends her into a moment of a flashback

[The zombies break down the door, walking towards Forta, who is closer to the door. Steve attacks them and so does Forta. They fight their way out of the house, leaving dead zombies behind]

Forta: "Steve, now! We have to run!"

Steve: "B-but, it's night time!"

[They are yelling over the sounds of zombies]

Forta: "Trust me, I know what I'm doing!"

Forta: "God damn it."

Ata: "You ok?"

Forta: "Yeah yeah, just...Aina was a close friend who died."

Ata: "I understand. I'm just saying I think we would do better out of here."

[Forta nods and thinks about it.]

Scene 4:

[Forta is sitting in the interview room where she met Kole and Desole. A boy about 15 is sitting in front of her.]

Forta: "So when did you decide you wanted to be a soldier?"

Boy: "Well, I never did. My dad told me to join the training for the guards."

Forta: "Why do you think he did that?"

[The boy shrugs and kicks at the ground with a foot]

Boy: "Uh said something about how The City was a utopia that needed to be protected. I don't think he could have ever predicted all this."

[Forta nods and doodles a drawing of a pig on her paper.]

Forta: "I see. What is your opinion on the matter?"

Boy: "W-well I don't know. We fought the gangs and I always did think they were easier to kill than I imagined. I-I felt bad."

Forta: "Why?"

Boy: "They all have mothers and fathers and people who love them very much, and I took that away from."

[The boy shakes his head and furrows his brow.]

Forta: "I see...I can understand how you feel. Here you won't have to hurt anyone. You don't have to do anything you don't believe in. Ok?"

[The boy looks up at Forta for a moment and then nods slowly.]

Boy: "Yes M'am"

Forta: "Call me Forta."

[The boy nods faster now and then stands up.]

Boy: "Can I go back to my cabin?"

[Forta nods and the boy leaves the room.]

Steve's voice: "Jesus fuck."

Forta: "He has no idea what this war even is about."

Steve: "Not a clue. We need to get the location of the base ASAP."

Forta: "Yeah...and I know just how."