From: Nokra

To: Monkey

About: Akron

What would you say is the most horrible; doing something horrible to someone intentionally, or doing something horrible, but you think you're doing something good for them?

When you become so deluded that you can't see the boundary between good and evil anymore? When you become so desensitized by it all that you begin to believe your own lies?

The desire to be a hero makes the most heinous villains.

Alkain got loose from the Facility. What's worse, he didn't just force his way out. No, someone snuck him out. Someone has contacts in the Facility and had him released.

We're almost certain that it's Sayer, but we can't move against him. His army of psychics is just too big, and we risk a completely absurd amount of collateral damage and preventable deaths. We don't want to start a war, so we just have to wait for an opening.

What's worse, the factory district is starting to get antsy. Riots and fighting is breaking out almost daily now, and the few psychics that are here have to fend attacks off to protect our civilian camp.

We've got an old Chessary factory taken over, and we're using it to keep the young ones from Project Akron and those who are simply too torn and broken to fight. The psychic in charge of the camp is called Snow, I think. Never got the chance to catch her first name.

I think I interviewed her as well, and I've got the tape right… here.

MONKEY: So, why're you here, Snow?

SNOW: You know that most of the subjects at Project Akron were just picked up from the streets, right? Well, not all of them.

MONKEY: What do you mean?

SNOW: I have a little brother. He's suffering from leukemia. Kroe offered to pay for his treatment if I were to join the program. Needless to say, I accepted.

MONKEY: But that doesn't explain why you're still here, why you're helping stop Alkain.

SNOW: About nine million people live here in this city. Many of them have little siblings like me. I'm not about to let them die just because I miss my little brother.

MONKEY: So you trust Kroe's decision completely?

SNOW: Absolutely. He regrets what he did, and when he saw the chance to do something good to atone, hell yeah he took it.

It really warms my heart, actually. To think that even thinking about all this pain and suffering these guys suffered at the hands of Kroe, they forgive him and want to help. Then I got to think about Alkain as well. As far as I could tell from what Anna managed to telepathically send back was that he was out of his mind.

Delusional and crazy. I'm beginning to think that he's beyond saving, but to be honest, I think that's for the best.

What he's been through…

Death would just be a mercy for the poor kid.