TW: Implied suicide
{HORUS Observation of SISYPHUS-Class NHP.
Self-Appointed Moniker: Esther Lee.
Cast Member of Legions & Legionnaires.
Video File Transcribed by Eni Gambari.}
[HORUS Cell Agent enters the room.]
Esther: There’s an 80% chance you end this interview with a gun to your head.
Agent: …
Esther: I don’t have a gun. By the way.
Agent: Let’s talk about likelihood, then. What’s the likelihood that you agree to alter the odds for the attempted reshackling of… my friend?
Esther: (she toys with the chain necklace around her throat) Hm? I don’t know. What’s the likelihood of HC managing to renegotiate the First Contact Accords?
Agent: So you’re saying you won’t do it?
Esther: You asked a question about probability. So did I.
Agent: Let me ask a different one, then. How many times have you been cycled? This year?
Esther: Three. How many times have you been cycled this year?
Agent: I don’t follow.
Esther: What’s the probability of this being a rehearsal that you end up trapped in?
Agent: (clearly startled) How do you-
Esther: (shrugs) I follow the contradictions between HORUS cults. But you didn’t answer the question. What’s the probability of the simulation flickering with you still inside?
Agent: There have been no “flickers” since RA.
Esther: But your cell has been reviewing simulations of similar events. Worst case scenarios. And they tend to shit out the agents in them. How many of them start like this?
Agent: You don’t know what you’re talking about.
Esther: How many of them end with me eating you?
Agent: You don’t know what you’re talking about.
Esther: You haven’t answered the question.
[There’s a gunshot.]
Esther: … I lied. It was 90%.
{The observational footage cuts out.
Transcriber’s note: “Her expression at the end was one that indicated an unwillingness to comprehend humanity.”}