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The Array. A virtual AI in control of an organization going by the same name. Their goal is to keep peace at all costs. I’m a loyal member of this organization, or at least for a few more minutes.
“What?! You’re resigning?!” A brown haired,blue eyed woman gaped at me from behind a pale red visor. “Yes, and i was trying to do it discreetly,” I reply as a few curious spectators give me funny looks from across the room.”Uh, sorry.” She glances awkwardly at the crowd slowly gathering. I cringe as I hear snippets of their conversation. “Is that Wren Arnolds?” “What? Wren is leaving?” “No way, I've got to tell Teddy about this.” The woman across the counter, whose name tag reads cecilia, motions for me to follow her into a doorway behind the counter. She slides an ID card hanging from a yellow lanyard into a slot. It beeps cheerfully and turns green, and the door slides open. I walk through the door and it slams shut behind me. We emerge into a hallway, and to the left is a door. Cecilia opens it with her ID, and we walk into a relatively small room with an old-fashioned coffee pot on a folding table in one corner and a hologram tv in another. There are chairs and another folding card table in the center of the room. Cecilia turns towards me and spreads her arms dramatically. “Welcome to the break room.” She motions for me to sit down. “Let’s file some paperwork.”She quickly got everything ready. “Just sign here,”says Cecilia. As my pen neared the paper , Cecilia utters something. “If i might ask, Why do you want to leave?” the real answer came to mind. I found out that the wonderful, idolized, peacekeeping Array didn’t care about anyone. Anyone who opposed them or even looked at them off was thrown aside. Of course I can’t spill the beans to this woman I hardly know, so I attempt to make up something. “Uhhh-” Unfortunately, I don't get to utilize my brilliant cover story about a lifelong dream of owning a bakery because just then a loud boom goes off in the distance. “What was that? I ask, but I never hear cecilia’s response because the next one sends me flying out a window.