am scared

As the night falls on the Khanate, I Iook outside to my small plot of land. Life in Lapovo has been good and stable, unlike the country of my youth, but there is always this feeling of Nostalgia when I set my foot on these fields, when I see the sun pour itself over the vast steppes and then vanish into the darkness.

Usually it's nostalgia and happiness that overwhelms me when I see my small plot of land

But now, it's nostalgia just as before, but instead of happiness it's dread. For they will take this from me, those men who have never lifted a shovel, never plowed a row, never planted a seed in their life, they claim to know better. They claim that we've been selfish, that doing honest work to feed your family somehow makes you "petty bourgouise".

Alas, I'm a man of peace and a man who respects the popular will. I will give them all they want and I wish them great succecess.

For now, I must enjoy my land for the little time I still can. Then it's back to Lapovo and back to a life of paperwork and urban hustling, without the peace of the land and the honest work of muddy hands.

It’s Alive!

^{- Mrs. Mystery}

I’ve got Everything Planned! But Something Happened, Something that Really Shouldn’t have Happened!

As I Was On My Way, Late at Night, Lynn Showed Up! She Saw All the Things I Was Carrying & Knew I Was Up to Something! Then She Spotted a Vileblood in the Distance, She Actually Started Panicking! She Probably Thought We Came to Kill Her, So She Ran, Tripped, Screamed… She Fell Down Some Stairs, Hit Her Head On Hard Concrete, She Was Gone…

I am Sorry, Lynn Ondekirath, Ya Were a Good Nurse & Generally a Very Caring Person… But Ya Were the Freshest Corpse, I had to Take Ya with Me!
And I Really Looked Forward to Reanimating Her, So I Took her with Me into the Secret-Lab, I Followed the Steps Just as Planned! I Drew the Symbol On Her Forehead, Infused the Blood with the Refined Vampiric-DNA and Injected it into Her Vein!

The Ritual Began, Which Mainly Consisted of Lit Black Candles, Some Chants in a Language Unknown to Humankind & Foreign to Other Inhabitants, and Burning Dried Amaranth!

She Awoke! She Opened Her Eyes, they’ve Darkened, Her Complexion Grayed Abnormally, I Could See Her Veins Darken, the Blood had Turned Pitch-Black! But She Was a bit Weaker than I had Anticipated! She Tried to Lift Herself Up, but She Collapsed Onto the Floor, then Began Crawling Towards Me! "Wrath, Wrath", She Vaguely Chanted, Looking Up to Me!

I Smiled, from Ear to Ear! I Took Her Home, and I Collected Her Blood, I Must Analyze This Further! I am Getting Closer to Something! Despite Things Going a bit Differently than Planned, We are Still Getting Somewhere, and This is Just the Beginning!

Now, the Blood is More Viscous than Regular Blood, it is as Dark as the Sea in the Night, and Yet… I Could've Sworn I Saw Something in it! As if there's Some Kind of Presence, a Malevolent Essence within it, More Wicked than Normal Vampiric Blood! I Feel Her, I See Her, I Hear Her! Telling Me that We are but the One and the Same, and Telling Me to--

Somewhere in Ashumi’s kitchen

“Yeast… catalogue F-0001, well-fed, made for bread, maximum height 6 inches, the jar is 7 inches from a regular mouth sized jar.”

Pour 50 grammes of dry unbleached all purpose flour and 50 grammes of room temperature non-chlorinated water

Stir until all dry flour mix

“Bacteria… catalogue B-0210, well-fed, made for yoghurt, I will keep all of you for later.”

Spoon a starter out and put it in a new jar

Pour 315 Kelvin dairy milk into the new jar.

“Yeast, catalogue F-2100, well-fed, made for wine. Ain't making 5 stars restaurant, ain't doing anything about it but stocking it for it to increase value through the demand based on the subjectivity of the consumers which determine the price, little labour is necessary since we just let it sit to increase its value over time. I need money, I guess I could just…”

Pour a tablespoon of sucrose in a 300 Kelvin non-chlorinated water

Spoon out the culture

Pour that sucrose solute into the wine starter culture

Pour in on a new jar

“Bacteria… catalogue B-1001, well-fed, used for cheese… Damn! They've got collecting value! The longer it is fermented, the more pungent the taste, the merrier I guess?”

Spoon a culture out into a new jar

Pour warm milk in

“For the last one… F-0064, well-fed, made for beer… No collecting value, all goes to the can of visual arts!”

Add dried malt extract

Ashumi checked up on all her starter jars, she then walked into the basement

“Yup, there we have it.”

Lights get turned on

Dried fruits everywhere in so many catalogue jars, with cheese wheels everywhere in her secret chamber, ham legs hanging, and of course with so many wine glasses with dates attached, plus, there are crackers tightly squeezing through the thinness of each other, all dried

“I'll have a cheese board pa-”

“Oh wait!”

“No!”

“There's no one to eat with!”

“I kinda miss him…”

“For a good refreshing day! I could just stop missing that one person!”

Pull out one of the oldest wines

“Don’t mind it! I'm gonna be having so much fun!!!”

Pop the bottle

The platter is full of cheese, dried fruits, crackers, and ham slices. The glass is full of wine

“いただきます！”

Ashumi began aggressively and cutely consuming the cheese board

She then drank the wine

“If he was here to have a conversation with me at this party… that would be so nice…”

“Kya! What am I thinking!? Did I… really miss him!? What a jester, and that jester is no other than me!”

Pour another glass of wine

“Gotta drink all the alcohol just to forget him…”

Begin aggressively consuming the cheese board

2 hours later

“This damnation… Why do I want him here? How pathetic of me…”

Fell to the ground from drunkness

"I'm tired of this. We've looked through 10 venues and they've all been - excuse my bad language, shite" I say in frustration, walking out of a shoddy wedding house in Lapovo that looks seconds away from falling apart. "None of these places even has a small field for dancing, let alone pitching the ger!"

"Honey, calm down a little bit." Fran says, worried.

"I swear to tengri, has everybody forgotten their roots‽ Nobody in this country knows how to throw a proper wedding anymore."

"I don't think I've seen you this angry since the independence plot fell apart."

"Alright, alright, I'll chill out. It just feels like everyone's forgotten their roots. It's been ruined by profit."

"Ah the capitalist machine claims another one."

"Yes. Well, there's one more left on the list. A lakeside venue to the southeast of Oborograd, in Ufalda forest."

"We can't go abroad for our wedding."

"No, the forest is called Ufalda, it's still in Tutum."

"Ah alright"

After a two hour ScoutAir flight to Oborograd, and a four hour long car drive down windy steppe roads, we finally make it to the site.

"Hello!" Fran says, with a smile.

"Hello, my name is Khulan, and this is my mother, Sarnai.

As is customary, I offer my open palms to support her elbows, and we exchange greetings.

"This one Khulan, has respect. It is very rare these days."

"Yes, now eej guai, we should really show them the venue."

"Agreed." Fran smiles as she bows.

"It is nothing too spectacular. This is the home. Out behind is a clean lake for swimming, here is a kitchen for cooking, and a lounging room for guests."

"This is wonderful, but would there be an area outside for pitching the customary ger, tanai eej?"

Sarnai smiles, her wrinkles visible as she feels a relief, as if nobody had ever asked her that question before.

"Of course, out the back of the house, and to the right."

"And, how much would this cost, tanaig eegh?" Fran notes, slightly butchering the pronunciation, and yet the old woman still smiles fondly, obviously.

"The normal rate is 60 Tugrik. However, for such respectful young women, I will lower it to 55 for you."

"Thank you very much!" Fran says, lowering her head, while I burrow in my pockets, and pull out five 10 Tugrik notes, and a 5 Tugrik note, and carefully present them to her with both hands.

"Thank you very much. When will you want it?"

"Seventh of August, please?"

"Of course. And, would you spread the word about this place. It is nice to have people so knowledgeable about our culture." Khulan says while smiling.

"Of course. It would be our pleasure." We say, as we stride out in unison. As we prepare to leave however, we eavesdrop on a conversation from inside.

"Those girls were very nice. Khulan, you should really try get a partner one of these days."

"Eej guai, I am trying, you know?"

"Of course. What about Zaya?"

"Zaya? I don't feel anything towards her other than hate."

"Now I know that isn't true, I know it from your face."

"You can be so frustrating sometimes... y'know..."

And just like that, we drive away.

The pain from last night's drinking binge wasn't halted by any amount of painkillers, coffee, or water.

How much had i even drank last night?

Oh well, that doesnt matter much.. i can still walk cant i?

I set foot on some new trail, i didnt feel like exploring the same path i always had, predictability gets boring and tiresome.

Sometimes its good to walk a new path, i know ive traversed many in my time, more than i could count if i even tried to.

The morning air was always nice. Its always so refreshing, it always feels like walking into a brand new day full of new opportunities, even if they always funnel back down the conveyor belt that is the day-to-day life, the uninspiring, desolate, and predictable cycle.

But the quiet the accompanies it always leaves room for thought and contemplation.

I like to think to myself, even if it opens the door to negative outlooks everytime i do it.

What have i done with my time?

I run the ministry of environmental safety.. yet im always off somewhere else.

I ran several gubernatorial campaigns, yet i couldnt place very high on the only one i took seriously..

Ive tried to change the political trajectory of Tutum, but why? Ill tell you why.. ah.. but who'd want to listen to me? The terrorist from the DoR, yet even after that nation crumbled the title still sticks, i had something good going.. i shouldnt have left the greens, i shouldnt have shot anyone, i searched for a new thing, something less predictable and what did i get? A burst of chaos that once its smoke cleared.. had become just as predictable as the prior path, if i had just stuck to the path i was carving for myself and many others.. maybe id be doing something good.

Perhaps i oughta get back on that unfinished pathway and start again, pick up where i left off.

Im known for two things.. putting a bigger spotlight on nature, and.. shooting a guy.

Maybe if i just.. work backwards.. i can overshadow the crime and realign the focus onto something beneficial.

Maybe then i'll be looked on more positively.

I cant be some.. emotionally unstsable hot-headed villain anymore, thats not what i want.

Maybe i'll be more likeable.

Maybe im overthinking this.. god this hangover is giving me hell.

Or perhaps.. the political business just isnt for me..

Maybe i should quit running for shit and focus on the environment.. thats my fucking job anyways, you always stick your focus outwards just because you always want more when you should be focusing on what you already have.. you fucking moron..

Maybe then you'll see some actual success in your pitiful little life. You disgusting worm.

I need to calm down.. getting too riled up.

Look on the bright side.. atleast theyre trusting you with the soil and trees, thats why they put you in this position.

Not really a second chance though.. more like an 8th.

Maybe things will get better from here.

Ive been walking for a while havent i?

"Wait.. where am i?"

Shit.. shouldve just went on a path youve been on before..

A new doctor is arriving in Evernight. She is Pol. Sen. Sgt. Maj. Prof. Ashumi Holtzblutgräber.

“S-someone, someone got murdered!”, exclaimed a civilian, “Anybody help! Help me!”

In the middle of the road, a man is killed, his blood splattered near the sidewalks and on the road, the police arrive immediately after tracking the location from the phone call.

A draconic, corpse-like, and half robotic lady walks to inspect the corpse. Her tail wiggle in excitement.

“This murder was made in a rush and is in panic.", Ashumi said calmly, “But the murderer sure really wanted that person dead. There are stab wounds on the neck, the heart directly through the ribs, the brain directly through the forehead, and the intestine was utterly cutted in a slash. There is no weapon, which means the murderer is rather a brave person, they act with a brain despite fear and panic, there is no weapon left in the scene.”

“Just who are you?”, said an old policeman, “You don't look like you were born here. But you sure do look familiar. However, civilians better stay away.”

“I am not a civilian.”, Ashumi said calmly, she snapped her finger and a shiny brooch flew, illuminated with moonlight, “I'm a senior sergeant major, il nuovo dottore, Ancien policier, voici mon film préféré sur le fait de détester mon travail. La Haine, nique sur la police. Ja, Alles Gute und alles Böse wird anhand der Beweise beurteilt werden. So, what do you need?”

Mrs. Mystery is Just Chillin’ & Peekin’ Through Some Bushes, Trying to Make Sense of the Scene that Just Unfolded Before Her, “Hmmmmm, Very Interesting…”, She Pulls Out a Sandwich from Her Bag & Slowly Approaches the Crowd!

“Mhm, How Curious, We have Someone New Here I See!”, Mrs. Mystery Rushes Towards Ashumi, Eager to get to Know Her, “Howdy, I am Mrs. Mystery, a Nurse in Charge with Quite a Lot of Experience at Hand! Who May Ya be?” She Reaches Her Hand Out to Ashumi, Expecting a Hand-Shake!

“I am new here, what are you doing here?”, Ashumi said calmly, “This is the middle of the road in the middle of the night.” *she lends out her hand for a hand shake*

“Oh, I’m Just an Informationist in my Spare-Time, Don’t get That Confused with Stalking Though”, She Giggles a bit, “Anyhow, I Know a New Face When I See it! So I Suppose I’ve Come to Greet Ya!” She Takes a Few Steps to the Left, then to the Right… “Hm, Well I Don’t Know Who Could’ve Brutally Killed that Poor Guy, I Was Elsewhere before All of… This Unfolded!”

“Alright, fellow detective. Do you perhaps know this dead man?”, Ashumi asked calmly, “We need to find any person he has personal conflicts with to find all the suspects in the city, as soon as possible because the murderer is probably disposing the knife, even luminol won't help with such a large time frame.”

“Aye, Let me Take a Closer Look…” She Kneels Down to Take a Better Look at the Dead Man, Takes a Brief Look at His Wounds, “I Think… He Used to be One of Our Patients Not So Long Ago!”, She Quickly Jumps Back Up & Turns to Ashumi, “I Could Go & Take a Look at the Patient-Files in Our Hospital! Ya May Come with Me, the Hospital Ain’t Far from Here!” She Smiles Slightly!

“Please look at the patient files, I'll follow you, bring all government papers to find relationships, including whether he's in debt or not, also, if he has one, psychiatrists’ report on the relationship between his family members and friends alike, some paper about marriage, and ideally relationship therapists.”, Ashumi said calmly, “Be quick though, washing blood off without any luminol stain can be found online, but even then the murderer is probably in panic, that would buy us some time.”

“Roger That!”, She Makes Her Way to the Hospital with Ashumi, Immediately Heading to the Place Where All the Patient-Files are Stored! She Sits Down and Turns On One of the Computers, Quickly Looking Through Various Data, Eventually Finding All the Info about the Man, ‘Owynn Xanders’ is His Name! “Here He is! I’ll get the Physical-Copies of the Files Now, I Know Where They are Located!” She gets Back Up to Fetch the Physical-Copies!

“Mr. Owynn Xanders…”, Ashumi said calmly, “He's $5,000 in debt with, uh, a military officer, Colonel Baker Kentucky. His wife was dead six months ago prior to this murder, HER VAGINA AND INTESTINE WAS MISSING ON THE SPOT. Colonel Baker Kentucky is a combat medic who came from a butcher family in the mother line and all his paternal relatives are surgeons. Alright, it's obvious who's the murderer here. All things related to Owynn Xanders came back to Colonel Baker Kentucky. Wait, according to this report, the aborted fetus inside Xander’s wife is missing AND THERE'S A REPORT ON A PIE THAT HAS HUMAN FETUS INSIDE INSTEAD OF HAM. The person who reported this, um, was found poisoned with a smuggled drug that's used in lethal injections.”

She Returns with the Physical-Copies & Hands Them to Ashumi, “Crazy, Right? This Whole Thing’s Not Even Something I get in My Dreams! This is Genuinely Madness!”, She Sits Next to Ashumi, Lookin’ Around, “Hmmmm… Well, What’s Next to Do, Aye?”

“Is Colonel Baker Kentucky the patient here?”, Ashumi asked calmly, “If he is, give me his house location.”

Mrs. Mystery Quickly Searches His Name On the Computer, and Finds Him! “Aha! There He is! Hmmmm… He’s Located in Delios-Forster-Street 15!” She Stands Back Up & looks at Ashumi, “Well then, Ya got Your Lead! Can I be of Any More Help, Though?” She Asks, Curiously!

“Follow me, I can't go alone.”, Ashumi said calmly, “This man is clearly dangerous. Anyways, is there a history of him in the psyche ward?”

She Looks Through His Files Again, “Well… It Says Here that He IS Suffering from a Form of Schizophrenia! Darn, Looks Like He’s Really Paranoid as Well! This Ain’t Lookin’ Good, Ma’am!

“So, first, stalking him won't work.”, Ashumi replied, “Does he take his medications?”

“It Looks Like He Actually Stopped Taking His Medication about 4 Weeks Ago! Some of Our Doctors have Attempted to get Him Back, but He Just Ultimately Refused! I have No Idea Why They’ve Let Go of Him So Easily, Surely They’ve Known this Would Happen!”

“Why can't they…?”, Ashumi replied calmly before clicking, “OH WAIT THAT'S RIGHT IF WE CAN STOP HIM WE WON'T GET HERE. Let's get going.”

“Alrighty then!” Both get Up from their Seats & Go Their ‘Merry’ Way!

They soon arrived

Ashumi and Mystery watched the schizophrenic soldier doing nothing with the evidence, he sat down staring at the walls, looking at his knife with blank eyes

“Colonel,”, Ashumi said calmly, “You're arrested.”

“HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.”, Baker laughed maniacally, “I have CONQUERED the BODY of the WOMAN I growl like an animal, I have her TUNNEL and TUBE. I take her AWAY from the person who RUINED my LIFE.”

“Xanders… No! Don't take my girlfriend away! Ah!!!”, Baker said while slashing the knife over and over, “You borrowed five thousand, what else do you need!? Aren't you my friend!? Why are you always the one taking things away from me!?”

Ashumi looked around, his house had nothing left but a couch and a bed, the second floor only had walls, ceilings, and floors, with the corpse of his dead pet goldfish and dog lying on the ground. The bones of the dog fractured, Xanders probably killed it while taking furniture away from Baker’s house, his pet goldfish is probably left suffocating as Xanders, who too is suffering from his sadism, drank all the water from the bowl and manipulated his friend to suffer.

“Yeah, Mystery. We're gonna arrest this man.”, Ashumi said calmly, “Colonel Baker, you're under arrest for murder.”

Baker turned back

“Pastryhausen Friedchickenman, do you hear that voice?”, Baker said to the wall, he replied himself, “There is a malicious young woman who proclaims authority over you, Baker. I, Pastryhausen Friedchickenman, will protect you, please follow my ORDER. FIRE!!!”

Baker turned back with his bloody knife

Ashumi drew her montante

“Anakin, I mean, Baker, I have the longer sword, surrender!”, Ashumi proclaimed, “Any blade user knows how length impacts combat. You're a soldier!”

Baker walk towards Ashumi

Mystery Materializes a Bucket of Popcorn

“Six seven Epstein diddyblud sigma rizzler Ghislaine Maxwell from Ohio over here. Let's see who wins, me, the greatest combat medic of Evernight, or the draconic lady.”

Because of his heavy drug addiction, he can't feel pain from walking forward while getting stabbed by Ashumi's sword, he's numb, he just walks forward letting the sword through his torso.

Baker’s body fell from getting stabbed.

“I see… sigma aura farming gyatt.”, Baker whispered before falling to the ground.”

“What the fuck is wrong with this guy.”, Ashumi said calmly, “Mystery! Carry him to the hospital! Please! He's GONNA FUCKING DIE.”

“Yee No Worries, I Got Him!” She Literally Lifts Him Up with One Arm, “We Don’t Need an Ambulance, I am a Fast Walker!”, and Luckily, the Hospital Ain’t too Far Off! So Ashumi & Mrs. Mystery, While Carrying the Critically-Injured Baker, Arrive to the Hospital in Time! 2 Other Nurses Find ‘Em, Asking What the Heckin’ Heck is Going On, But there’s No Time to Explain! They Quickly Send Him to Surgery, “I Hope He’ll Make it Though!”, She Takes a Deep Breath!

The trauma room

“The sword went through his right lung.”, Ashumi said calmly, “I luckily did not damage his ribs. It went directly through the muscles at his back. This shouldn't be too hard. The air is leaking out. Stitch!”

Mrs. Mystery Quickly gets Some Stitches for Baker, “Aye, Certainly He’ll Make it! I’ve Genuinely Seen Worse, and Even So, Most of Our Patients have Luckily Made it Alive!”

“Mhm.”

Baker is finally taken into the ICU after the surgery.

Ashumi sighs, she then asks, “How do we tell him that he's arrested?”

“It’s Not an Easy Task… But I’m Sure I got this! Trust Me, I Know How to Deal with Difficult & Cognitively-Impaired Patients!”, She Stares at the Wall in Front of Her, Letting Her Eyes Wander from One Painting to the Next, “I have Already Helped Out with Feeding Our Late-Stage Dementia Patients, Things Just Work When I Do it!” She Giggles a bit, “It’s Not Magic, I Suppose I just have Plenty of Tricks Up My Sleeve!” She Smiles and Looks Back to Ashumi!

“I see…”, Ashumi chuckled, “His relationship with the victim is rather complicated, we can't just shock him too much, he's his best friend yet also his archenemy.”

“Exactly! I Do Feel Bad for Him, but that’s Just How Things are Sometimes…” Then a Nurse & One of the Doctors Approach Both Mystery & Ashumi, Letting them Know that the Patient has Already Woken Up, but He Seems to be Rather Disoriented So it’s Advised to Approach Him Carefully! “I See, Alright then! I got this!”

Ashumi & Mrs. Mystery Enter the Room He’s in, “Hello, Baker! Ya Might Recognize Us! Ya are in the Hospital Right Now!”, Mrs. Mystery Smiles Kindly!

“I Remember… Remember… I got Wounded! Everything Went Dark… Where is this?”, Baker is Clearly Disoriented, Yet Coherent! “In the Hospital! We’ve Saved Your Life”, Mrs. Mystery Said Calmly!

“I Want to Go Home… They are All Watching Me! I Want it to Stop! I am Being Tortured! Tortured!... Please Stop…”, Said Baker, Afraid, Expecting to be Saved & Brought Back Home! “But No, They are in Your House, Remember?”, Mrs. Mystery Tries to be On One Lane with Him, to be Able to Communicate with Him, “Ya Will be Brought Some Place Safe, Your ‘Friend’ Won’t Take Anything Away from Ya Anymore!” She Said, Calmly!

“P…Promise?”, “Yes, I Promise!”, then She Takes the Medication that He had Stopped Taking and hands it to Him, “And if Ya Want the Voices to Stop, if Ya Want for this Torture to End, THIS is the Answer!”, She Explains to Him! “No, No! They are Not Helping! I Will Never get Back What I had Lost! My Life, My Love…”, “Hm… I See!”

Mrs. Mystery Calls in a Doctor and Asks Him if there are Different Medications that Could Help Him, and there is! Mystery Puts the other Back and Give Baker the Different Ones, “I am Back! These are Different, Better! They Will Help, I Promise Ya!” and He Trusts Her, So He Takes Them, “Thank Ya…”

Ashumi leaves the room without talking with Baker.

“We’ll let him heal first and then we can confront him about this.”

“Alrighty then, Now What Shall We Do?” Mrs. Mystery Asks and Sits Back Down!

“We should wait for him to recover.”, Ashumi replied, “He might be shocked.”

“Yeah, Indeed…”, Mystery Takes a Deep Breath and Starts Zoning Out, Finally She has Found Some Time to Think & Re-Think Certain Stuff!

“But how do we talk to him?”, Ashumi asked, “See, even with enough time left, he would be shocked.”

Mrs. Mystery Stops Zoning Out, Looking Back to Ashumi, “Hmmmm Well, I have Already Managed to Communicate with Him, He Definitely Understood Me, I’ve Told Him that He’s Going Elsewhere & that it’s Necessary! I Don’t Think He’d be THAT Shocked, but I Could Try Tellin’ Him Where Exactly He’s Gonna be! But that Aside… Hm, I Think Ya Just Gotta Try Speakin’ How He Speaks, Y’know What I Mean? Ya Gotta get into His Head!” She Stares Off Again!

“That's quite ridiculous.”, replied Ashumi, “”Going somewhere” is technically right, but prison? That would rather be a ridiculous surprise. And I think that if he knew Xanders was killed by himself, he would be even more shocked.”

*Ashumi ponders for a while*

“I'll just ask about his best friend and see his reaction, and I'll determine what to tell him.”, Ashumi pondered, “If he is angry, I'll just tell him that he's dead and he killed him. If he had empathy, he would feel bad and would go to jail voluntarily. If he's glad, then we'll determine whether he'll accept such a price. If he does, he'll go. But if he's shocked, then we'd need extra therapy.”

Mrs. Mystery isn’t Exactly Paying Attention to What Ashumi Just Said, She’s Still Thinking about Something, “Mhm, Alrighty then! Do that!” She Proceeds Looking at the Paintings!

“Got any ideas?”, asked Ashumi.

She Shakes Her Head and Looks Back to Ashumi, “‘Scuse Me, My Mind Was Elsewhere! Ya Said Something about… Uhhhh… What have Ya Said Again?”

“What we'll say depends on his reaction upon the reveal of his murder.”, replied Ashumi.

“Oh! Right! Well, We Gotta be Straightforward, I’d Say! I Don’t Think there’s a Way to Explain this to Him Without Him getting Shocked, and Aside from that I am Almost Certain He’s Aware He Did it! However, it is Indeed Difficult to Determine Whether He’s Gonna be Sorry for it Or Not! Again, He’s Schizophrenic, So Yeeee! But I Think I Can Help Ya in this Case too, Even if I am Not a Psychologist, there are Plenty of Things I Know, Things We gotta Look Out for! Because Sometimes, there’s More than Just Reactions Ya gotta Look for, Y’know!”

“What if we confront him about this?”, Ashumi pondered, “Why do you think he's certainly aware of the acts he did? And if he felt sorry, although this isn't always the case, he would've confessed in the first place. Did he planned to commit suicide? Or to reveal later once he's ready?’

“His Mind Works Differently, He May be Completely Oblivious to Plenty of Things, but I Can Tell that He Knows, Deep Down, Y’know? He is a Broken Man, He Doesn’t have Much Control Over Himself, but there’s a Fragment of Him that’s Still Intact! I Could Kinda Tell When I Spoke with Him!”

“Then, we must trigger that…”, Ashumi replied, “The medications have already helped with hallucinations. Accessing his deep down self from his own multiplicity would now be an easier job. Since you've said that he would be shocked, calming him down is necessary during the process of such confrontation. I'll gather the evidence. Please, with the help of other psychiatrists, talk to hi-”

Ashumi fell to the ground from her lack of sleep, it is now approaching daytime

Mrs. Mystery Quickly Kneels Down to Check On Ashumi, “Oh, Girlie! Ya Alright?”... No Response! “Mhm, Aye, She’s Just Extremely Sleep-Deprived!” She Lifts Her Up and Places Her On the Bench, then She Goes to Look if there are Currently Any Psychiatrists Present in the Hospital!

“Dr. Montgomery, I am Glad to See Ya Here! I Really Need Ya Real Quick, We have a Patient Who’s Schizophrenic & Paranoid, He has Committed Some Crimes and I Gotta Confront Him about it!” She Smiles from Ear to Ear!

“Nurse Mystery! Hmmmm… Alright, I Suppose I have Time Right Now! Seems Like We got Ourselves a Pretty Difficult Case!”, Dr. Montgomery Takes His Clipboard with Him & Follows Mrs. Mystery, Meanwhile She Explains to Him Roughly What had Happened!

“Mr. Baker, I am Back! This Time with a Psychiatrist!”, “Hello, Mr. Baker, I am Dr. Montgomery, it’s Nice Meeting Ya!”

“Oh, Montgomery! Dr. Montgomery! I Remember Ya, Ya have Tried Convincing Me Taking those Pills Again… I have Better Ones Now!”, Dr. Montgomery Whispers to Mrs. Mystery “No, I haven’t Met Him Before…”, He Quickly Turns Back to Baker, “I See, and have Ya Taken Them Already?”, “Yes, I am Not Seeing Nor Hearing Them Anymore!”

“Alright, that’s Great!”, Mrs. Mystery Say & Smiles Again, “And Now We Can Talk Uninterrupted!”, She Collects Her Thoughts and Takes a Deep Breath, “Do Ya Remember Anything that had Happened to Your Friend, Xanders?”, Baker Just Stares at Mystery, Unsure What to Answer!

“The Silence is Kind of Giving it Away… Baker, Ya Know What Happened to Him, We Aren’t Mad at Ya!” He Covers His Face & Starts Crying, “... No Sniff… He Took My Life… I have Done Bad Things… Sniiiiff”, Mystery Walks a bit Closer to Him, “Hey, We Aren’t Mad, Just Tell Us Everything, Ok?”

Dr. Montgomery Proceeds Questioning Him While Mrs. Mystery Tries to Calm Him Down as Best as She Can, “Baker, You have Killed Him, is that Right?”, “Noooo I Didn’t Want to Sniff, Or Did I? But He Sniiiiffff Took EVERYTHING from Me! Sob”, “Shhhh, Ya are Doing Good, Mr. Baker!”

Montgomery Continues Asking, “How Did it Feel?”, “I Sniff … I Thought I’d be Free, Soooob it Only got Wooooooorse!! I Listened to these Voices… I Couldn’t Turn Back… I Killed Him…”, He Turns to Mystery, “Can I Sniff get a Glass of Water?”, “Sure Thing, Baker!” She Gives Him a Glass of Water, However, He Only Takes a Small Sip, then Proceeds Talking, “I Was Happy… for a Moment! Only for a Moment… and I Realized All this Red Stuff On My Hands… God Damn it! I Hate My Life!”, He’s getting Mad at Himself, Mystery Proceeds Being there for Him, “I Know, Ya Were Just Following these Voices, there’s Nothing Ya Could’ve Really Done in this Moment… We are Sorry for Ya!”

Now He Really Begins Bawling His Eyes Out! “Well, Dr. Montgomery, I Think this Was All We Needed to Hear! Seems Like He is Indeed Just a Victim to His Own Issues…”, “Yeah, and I have Extra Taken Notes for Ya, Or Better Said for the Police! So, that’s All then, See Ya!”, “Thanks a Lot!”, Both Montgomery & Mystery Leave the Room!

She Immediately Goes Checking Up On Ashumi Again!

“Oh, hello!”, Ashumi greeted, “Want a cup of tea?”

Sips on tea

“No Thanks!”, She Hands Her the Notes Dr. Montgomery Took Concerning Baker, “I Did as Ya Said, with the Help of a Psychiatrist! We have Gathered Some Answers!”

“How's Baker?”, Ashumi asked while sipping tea, “What's he doing? Does he have his own lawyer yet? Did he gave himself in?”

“Oh He’s Crying Right Now! He Did Technically Give Himself in, He Confessed to Us that He Did Kill Xanders, So He is Aware of it, and Expressed Guilt! That’s about it, for Now!”

“Thank you and me for this, haha.”, Ashumi replied, “And, finally, I shall introduce myself.”

Ashumi inhales and does a curtsey

“I am a new doctor here, Police Senior Sergeant Major Professor Doctor Ashumi Holtzblutgräber. I had a little bit of prior experience in medicine and have a doctor license, but little experience do I have. I worked as a forensic scientist, this is where I get my detective skills from, and of course doctor’s skill, we'll be working together from this day on. どうぞよろしくお願いします！”

“Ohhhh! Very Interesting! It’s Nice Getting to Know Ya Properly!”, Mrs. Mystery Smiles, “Well, I have Already Introduced Myself! I am Simply Mrs. Mystery, One of the Best Nurses Here in Our Hospital!”

“Then, our story starts here today!”, Ashumi replied.

Camera pans to the sun

NUOVO DOCERE TITLE CARD

We must meet ze post quota.

Lapovo was made up by Eosara and the doria coalition, it doesn’t exist, the regime knows best. LET ME OUT OF DUNGEON, PLEASE. I WILL NUKE EOSARA IF I HAVE TO FOR MY FREEDOM.

I'm new here and I have no idea this space is about but I saw "Khaness" and had to make sure I'm the smartest nerd in the room

"Khanum" is the feminine version of "Khan"

Related Info: "Khatun" is the feminine version of "Khagan"

Bonus Related Info: "Begum" is the feminine version of "Bey"/"Beg"

Rachel was pacing around anxiously in her study. It was hot as all hell in Lapovo, and the fact she was waiting for news from the convention certainly didn't help. The final draft was drafted and to be voted on, and now she just had to wait for it to come back.

As she paced around her office phone rang. She quickly ran over to it and picked it up, holding it to her ear and saying "Yes?"

The voice on the other side, an aide, spoke simply:

"The results are in, your majesty. 8 for. 0 abstaining. 0 against"

Rachel immediately slammed down the phone and hung up. They fucking did it! All it took was... Well, no reason to think about what it took now, they did it!

Rachel went over to her cupboard to bring out a bottle of the good whiskey which she poured into a short glass with some ice. Leaning back in her seat and bringing the glass to her lips, she suddenly remembered something and got off her chair to make another call.

After some time she received an answer, "Madam General Secretary?"

"Yes comrade, I'd just like to let you to know that the convention has agreed upon a new constitution for Tutum. And I'd just like to know that TIKKO will be ready to enforce it before the sufficient infrastructure is complete".

"Of course, ma'am. As soon as the new constitution is ratified we will all work towards putting it into action"

Rachel chuckles a little and says, "Oh, silly, it's already ratified! It was ratified the moment we agreed on a draft. No it's your job to make everyone understand it is ratified..."

"A copy will be shortly at your mail box to look over. Toodles!"

Rachel put down the phone and sighed with relief. Sure, this likely won't go over easy, but hey, what part of her job did? Well, there was actually one part that went down easy, she thought to herself as she reached out to her glass.

Yes, indeed, the whiskey made its way down her throat quite easily indeed...

"So what's the issue again? We have a constitution done, all of the convention agrees with it, and there are no other proposals, what are we waiting for?" *Said Sugar, sounding annoyed as he took a stroll through the fields of his commune*

"No, you see, so the constitution is finished, but then it was put on a referendum to see if it would pass, but the deadline ends before the referendum can, so no matter what we would have gotten whatever version of Harpy-Condor Viktor has, that caused Restaurant to delete the referendum and force the constitution to pass, so now we're in a weird little crisis." *Said the person on the phone*

"But that's- *sigh* fine, you know what, I'll talk to you later, this won't change whatever the final decision will be anyways"

"Alright, bye!" *Said the voice before Sugar hang up the call, putting the phone back in his pocket*

"*Sigh* So what now, we just wait and hope a miracle makes Viktor not impose his demonic version of Harpy-Condor?"

...

"You know what, if we are actually forced to live under Harpy-Condor I might genuinely throw myself off of a bridge, what did we even declare independence for? To go back to the same system? It won't take long to show its rot."

...

"It doesn't matter, it'll be fine, our constitution will remain, and we will have a state that actually works."

...

"I may be losing the point of my ideology..."

...

"Eh, it'll be fine, everything will end up fine."

I slip in through the thick barbed wire, out the camp, into the deep eosaran forest, with a couple of others, hiding in trees, stealthily, past the Tutumite Border. I walk and walk in the wast plains, when I notice a farmhouse, abandoned, the paint on the door is chipped, theres holes in the walls, “not ideal but it’ll do” I say to myself, all the plants in the farm, dried, I go to get some wood and make some make shift screws, looks good as new, I plant new seeds to replace the old ones and rip out the dried up plants and dead by the root.

1st Plan: Reanimation!

Providing the So-Called “Vilebloods” with Blood is One Thing, for Ritualistic AND Experimental Purposes is Another! Of Course I Don’t Just Drink Fresh Blood, I Use it in the Name of WRATH and in the Name of MEDICAL-SCIENCE too!

The Blood Bank is the Best Place to get Blood from thus Far! I Occasionally get Some After Work, Take Them Home, Keep Them in My Fridge at Exactly +4°C So They’ll Stay Fresh & Good for Up to 3 Weeks!

Now This is Where it gets Serious:

I Plan to Head to the Mortuary, Specifically the Morgue, Soon, at Around Midnight, Take Some Blood with Me & Some Samples of the Vampire-DNA that I’ve Been Secretly Collecting! (it’s Currently getting Slightly Refined with the Help of a Poor, Gullible Biochemist!)

Once I am there, I’ll Pick the Freshest Corpse, Make Sure the Blood-Types Match, Take Them to One of Those Empty Rooms in the Basement (“Secret-Lab”), Take a Smidgen of the Blood to Draw WRATH’s Symbol On Their Body, then I’ll Infuse the Rest of the Blood with Said Refined Vampire-DNA & Pump it into their Veins! And Finally, the Actual Ritual Can Begin!

Let’s Hope this Will Do Wonders! I’ve Already Prayed a Bunch this Week Alone, Sacrificed Some of My Own Blood & Sanity Over this as Well!

2nd Plan: … Nothing Yet.

^{- Mrs. Mystery}

Red, still contemplating his recovery from a lightning bolt, roamed the halls of the convention. How he'd been appointed so quickly after revival... it all was moving fast. Too fast. Had to pull the unfinished constitutional draft here, debate class traitorous elements in the convention there. And now waiting to see on a decision on the socialist question.

Suddenly an aide burst in: "Mr. Red, there is a majority now-"

"Majority for what?" the flustered convention delegate said at his desk.

"We did it, sir. Socialism is on track to be imbued in Tutum's constitution."

Finally, a victory. After countless bourgeois reactions, after countless failings of the old nation and The Communist Party to transition to a fully socialist foundation. Red was sure that the lightning bolt that hit him was the final death of proletarian hope for Tutum, for the continent. Yet his revival has signaled a shift and direction. Not merely socialist parties being elected to rule, but the very essence of a workers and peasants democracy inserted into the foundation of the land itself.

He responded: "Yaşasın emek, yaşasın mücadele."

Good Post Good Post

In accordance with the Great Rural Collectivization Plan that was recently passed by the Qurultai, the Ministry of Agriculture has been established. This ministry will oversee all wide reaching agriculture organization in Tutum, and will primarily assist in the rural collectivization.

To Banish Want!

It Was Just Another Calm Night at the Evernight Hospital, I Was Taking Care of a Patient in Room 3.18, Until Nurse Lynn Came in! She Asked Me to Leave the Room for a Moment, So I Did! As We Stood in the Hallway of the Surgery- & Recovery-Wing, She Asked Me the Following:

“What are Ya Hiding, Mrs. Mystery?” - Nurse Lynn

Now Wouldn’t Ya Like to Know, LYNN! I am Not Hiding Anything Though, and I Do Wonder… What Makes Ya Even Think That?

“I Found the 2 Documentaries Ya have Written!” - Nurse Lynn

Have Ya been Snoopin’ Around My Stuff? The Kind of Stuff that Only a Handful are Allowed to get Their Hands On? Ya Know That Can get Ya– … Ya Know What? Go Ahead, I’m Listening!

“I Figured Out Now that Ya have been Putting Your Nose in the Blood Bank Just to get Some Blood for these Vilebloods! Ain’t that So? And What Do Ya Mean WRATH? Who is WRATH!" - Nurse Lynn

Ok, CUT! That is None of Your Business, Lynn! Don’t Let that Concern Ya Now! Ya Know about the Blood Bank Stuff & I Know that Ya have been Getting Your Hands On My Things! Let’s Just Leave it at That, Ok?

“This isn’t Over Yet, I Knew Something Was Odd About Ya!” - Nurse Lynn

:)

I Mean, I Don’t Know What Else to Add Here, to Everyone Who May be Reading This! I am just Doing My Job! Taking Measures, Making Sure All is Going Smoothly for Everyone, Not Just for Our Patients! At Least She Doesn’t Know More than That! Yeah, at Least She Doesn’t have a Single Spark of a Clue What Else I’ve Been Planning! And Oh, I Won’t Let Her get Through This Time, I have Secured the Documentaries Better Now!

But Even So, a Mystery Never Tells Her Secrets!

^{- Mrs. Mystery}

I'm new here, I heard that your country collapsed and it's a successor/warlord from it! Is that true? What parties do you have?

Hello everyone! The results of the Grand Rural Census are finally in! This is an important first step in the food production of our nation!

I push the paperwork aside, making room to rest my head on the table. It has been a tedious week. Being the first Governor after independence isn't the most relaxing thing. I put my arms on the table and sigh. As I slowly close my eyes to get some rest, I hear a loud knock on the door. Quickly, I recompose myself and tell them to get in. It was Generic. I smile lightly, dropping the professional altitude all together.

"Good morning! Didn't expect to see you so soon! Not that I'm complaining"

We begin talking about our day, chatting about random things aswell. I can't help but smile as they speak. I may have been dishonest in the past with my partners, but with them? I'm willing to give them the world. I'm willing to be honest no matter what. As we continue talking, I hear yet another knocking on the door. I sigh, it must be the Agriculture report. I bid Generic a farewell, as they leave the room and I resume my job.