Think of it like a very brief loading screen. Because after that, it becomes this—
Strictly speaking, you have no reason to believe this woman, Claudette—or the thing that looks like a woman that bears that name—but after what you saw of Despond and young Sam and their strange powers, and the things Simon told you about his experiences, and what he suspected…
…no. You believe her, that she and her organization of even darker monsters conspired to destroy the world’s communication networks on the eve of the reveal of vampires to the world. You believe her, too, that they’d destroyed countless civilizations in the past to keep knowledge of the supernatural from humans, in fear that they might be revealed and destroyed, unable to keep puppetting the world from the shadows.
The rot of this world goes even deeper than you thought. And—not that you could have known, but the consequences for mortals of this, when you had been pushing for the drop of the Masquerade for their benefit—
You remember the fire in the sky, the ruined buildings—the way everything had gone uncannily silent in the world before the screaming started. The great skyscrapers of Los Angeles falling, the skyline crumbling as you made your way across the city hoping against hope that anyone you knew would be safe—and even then, the way people had suffered and died from the loss of infrastructure in the days to come. Those who had starved or been at the mercy of the elements.
It is not your fault. But you had your own hand in the chain of events leading to this; you, who thought knowledge would straightforwardly benefit humans. And this woman, this woman in front of you—orchestrated it all, and you can do nothing to her as you are. That this kind of evil could be allowed to thrive from the shadows—this kind of callousness…
You don’t know what to do.
But then, as suddenly as you found yourself experiencing that in the first person, you're somewhere else—
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