"You outdid yourself, kid - it was a beautiful service. Deyo would have loved it. Of all the people to get the lung, what a loss. She ever tell you about her first find? The Cleaner they called it, early days of the bureau, lemme find the fil…ah here we go, take a look at this. Her team started investigating the wrecks almost as soon as the Haze settled. Deyo cracks her way into the ship right outside Zone 1, the big one y'know? Finds one of these pretty much intact in the hangar. Inside it, there was this ah - she showed it to me after, not sure what to call it really - a brochure? Sales advert? We hadn't yet given up on translating their language back then, but there were all these pictures of this model (with two arms, mind you) transporting what looked like medical teams, supplies, doing I don't know, search and rescue in disaster zones. Wildest part, is that she found the document kept like a souvenir tacked next to the pilot seat by a picture of a sunset over a beach. Now, the heavy munitions that thing had been equipped with could have leveled the entire mountain, yet there’s this little booklet of paper showing off what good the machine could do, or rather what it was originally built for I guess. Deyo was convinced the pilot had kept it as some kind of sad reminder of what could have, or maybe should have been. Gonna miss her a lot.”

"Have you ever been to the memorial museum in district 4? I chaperoned a field trip for my kid's class few years back. These kids, all born after the war, y'know? I'll never forget it - one of em - all bright eyed and hopped up on the cafeteria soda - he peers up at the rebuilt display model of these motherfuckers and says it, and I quote 'doesn't look as scary as the stories made it' and y'know what? I felt relief. An entire generation is never gonna have to know what it was like running from these things."

"y'know - it's amazing they get anything done when they spend so much damn time redacting these things."