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Ling’s Mission Journal: Part IV
The game reloads. I check the big screen. The social feeds—kids still fighting like crazy. A little black girl and her brother double-team in their front room.
On the news feeds, drones lying smashed. Cars and buildings on fire. The world in chaos. But better a good chaos than a bad order.
Most are hiding from the battle. Some didn't listen. They came out and now they’re getting hurt in the crossfire.
We’d warned everyone across social media. Stay indoors. Off city streets and public areas. But some casualties are inevitable, whatever you do.
I get ready to go back in. Notice a bar chart on the corner of the screen. Friendly blue rises as we convert one drone at a time. The red dropping fast, the enemy running out of numbers. The grey bar rising, to
