Not Even Not Zen 402: The Mood War, Scene 5

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MOOD WAR: DAY ONE

 

[V] Details from Interview 37 in Cell 3C

ICC Detention Center, the Hague
Scheveningen, the Netherlands

HR-Spec-9: There is a blank in your transcript. It is not an important time, maybe. Just friends horsing around.

Cruzak: (sounds of shuffling)

HR-Spec-9: Did your Polish team conspire to start a fight with the monastery?

Cruzak: No. (Snort of laughter.) Anyway, that’s not how the problem started. It wasn’t with us.

HR-Spec-9: Then why give nothing to the records? Why no account?

Cruzak: Dunno.

(Twenty seconds of movement, all quiet.)

HR-Spec-9: I have to ask, Herr Cruzak. This is where you got angry before.

Cruzak: They’re all dead.

HR-Spec-9: Excuse please?

Cruzak: They were my friends. They’re all dead.

(Twelve seconds of silence. Three seconds of paper moving.)

HR-Spec-9: I think I see. For now, let us move to different gaps in the transcript.