The Second Civil War- The Complete History by Adam Yoshida

Author:Adam Yoshida
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Yoshida Media Company
Published: 2015-03-08T05:00:00+00:00

Headquarters, Arizona State Defense Forces, Phoenix

Governor Schmidt and Colonel Dunford were watching an interrogation from behind a one-way mirror.

“…I don’t know what it is that you’re asking me,” the man inside whined, struggling to speak as he drew in breaths made more painful by the rib that he’d broken, according to the report that would be filed later, during an accidental fall.

“Well, Colonel,” said the Governor, “I know that you aren’t just here to pay a courtesy call.”

“No, Governor,” replied Dunford, “that’s certainly true.”

“I want to know who you report to. Who is the commander of your cell?” demanded the former Police Detective from within the interrogation room.

“Governor, I’ll go right to it,” said Dunford, “I’m here because we’re going to be making a big push soon, right through the heart of Arizona, and we needed to know what kind of resistance that we’ll be facing along the way. It’s vital to the planning of the operation. My Division commander didn’t feel that all of the reporting that he was receiving was realistic.”

“Hold on, hold on,” said the Governor, placing his hand on the Colonel’s shoulder, “watch this.”

“Look,” said the former Detective, “I don’t like this anymore than you do. But I have a duty to discharge and I will do just that. Do you understand?”

The man handcuffed to the chair nodded, his eyes full of tears.

“Now, you know what we do to terrorists in Arizona these days, don’t you?”

“Ok,” said the detective, taking a pad of paper and a pen and slapping it down upon the table in front of the young man, “then - if you don’t want us to shoot you - you’ll write down the names of everyone that you know who is working with the insurgents. Do you understand me?”

The young man looked at the table, sick to his stomach.

“…and, if I cooperate, you won’t kill me?” he asked.

“I swear, before God and my mother, that if you tell me the truth right now we won’t have you shot.”

The man picked up the pen and slowly began to write.

“I’ll just give you a few minutes,” said the Detective, a smile crossing his face as he exited the room.

The Detective walked into the room with the Colonel and the Governor. The eyes of the Detective met those of Governor Schmidt for a few seconds before both burst into wild back-slapping laughter.

“I… I’m not sure if I understand what that was,” said Dunford after a long and awkward pause. Schmidt and the detective shared a look.

“Well, you see Colonel,” said the Detective as soon as he’d gotten a look at Dunford’s insignia, “these interrogations can get kind of dull. So we play some games to liven them up just a little bit.”

The Governor wiped a tear away from his eyes and continued.

“So, of course we can just lie to these people and tell them whatever we want. But it’s a lot more fun for us to play little games. So, lately, the boys here have been playing a game where we try not to lie to ‘em.

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