Daxia "Dax419" Ring

[Daxia Ring]

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Daxia "Dax419" Ring

Deleted message reconstructed via Orochi data trawl of unprotected Dragon servers:
To: Alicia Fawcett
Subject: What I’ve really been up to

Lisi, I’m sorry I haven’t been honest about what I’ve been up to these past three years. You deserve to know the truth, even if it’s unbelievable, and top secret, and all kinds of other things. Once a year isn’t nearly enough time to see each other, especially when I should have been there to celebrate with you getting into med school. I miss you. The truth is, I don’t work for a chemical research lab in Seoul. It’s a cover for a secret society called “The Dragon,” and while they do research, a lot of my time isn’t spent in a lab. I… well it’s probably better if I start with what really happened to me when I dropped out of Bates.

I don’t know how much of it you were aware of, but senior year was hard for me. My grades have never been great, but between anthro seminars, chem labs, and being social, I was constantly on the brink of failing my classes. One night, a couple of days before one particularly difficult P-Chem exam in October, I was suffering a mental breakdown because I didn’t know any of the material I needed to. Wracked with anxiety and curled up on my bed, unwilling to do anything other than stare and cry at my computer screen, I almost didn’t notice when my posters, all at once, tore themselves off the walls and fluttered around me. I was so freaked out by the unexpected distraction that I just watched in shock as my bookshelf, across the room, started to tilt towards me and its contents begin to spill on the floor. At the last possible moment I lunged forward to try in vain to catch it, but didn’t make it off the bed. Yet nonetheless, it snapped back up into place and didn’t budge anymore, no matter how hard I stared at it. Nothing else happened that night, but I was too frightened to study or even to sleep.

Over the next few days, weird shit like that kept happening to me. It was always when I was most tired or most anxious, and at first I thought I was going crazy. While I tried pretty hard not to see anyone, convinced I needed to focus harder on my classes after bombing P-Chem, Kyle did his best to take care of me. I was so lucky to have him; I still try to write to him sometimes, but it’s not like we can keep dating now that I’m in Seoul. Two days after the test, just when I was starting to feel better and the world was back under control, I woke up in the middle of the night to find a big man...

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