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" Who, Nemesis? No, never seen her. Also, why are you harping on Khemis? I've met her and I think I'm pretty good at reading people. She doesn't strike me as anyone who means harm." He gets up and puts on a teapot. " Want a cup?"
While the water boils, he continues, " I know I'm overstepping but I just need to know...what is it that makes you so...angry? I mean...why would anyone who...dislikes the world and other people so much even want to be a cop?"
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"Oh joy, therapy session. And yeah I'll take some tea." Helen smirked as she sat down on one of the kitchen chairs. "Well, DR. Phil, i was sort of born into the profession.

My great, great grandfather was a cop the first week he had arrived in Chicago from Naples, Italy; his son became a cop, then granddad was a cop and my father was a cop. I'm probably the first female Paladino in over a century to become a Chicago cop instead of being a housewife or something. It certainly surprised the hell of my teachers as well: they expected me to work as a stripper at a downtown Gentleman's S&M Club, shaking my half naked butt onstage while hugging a metal pole for ten dollars a minute.

And why should i care about the world? It doesn't give a absolute f@$! about me. Dealing with the constant BS in Chicago is more than enough for me. I never even left Illinois anyway having living nearly all my life here in this city. Except that one trip to Washington DC to talk before the Senate committee about my public status as a sunstormer and working as a police officer. That was days before another of our kind decided to decorate the FBI Headquarters with corpses in the name of Sunstormer Supremacy.

Yeah that was yet another excellent example on how sunstormers didn't do anything to stop it or even bother to help out the injured. I was there though assisting SAR teams and digging through the rubble for survivors. Not that the media would notice or care.

As to why i loathe Scheherazade errr....Khemis. Over two years ago, one of her Allah loving relatives decided it would be all grand and holy to make a car bomb and use it to blow up a army jeep refuelling at a overseas gas station full of American soldiers in Iraq. One of those soldiers before he died was a long time boyfriend who had just proposed to be engaged to me.

We didn't even get the chance to buy the engagement rings once he came back as promised. Only he never came back, not really anyway; just his mangled body in a black bag.

You wanted to know what makes me tick? There you have it. Satisfied, Doctor?

So f@$! the world and you too while you're at it.

I would love to have some honey and a lemon slice for the tea if you got them on hand."
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" Sure", he says, adding the ingredients to the tea. " Good call on the honey. Refined sugar will kill you"
" And I am sorry for your loss. But aren't you afraid you are doing Nemesis' job for her? If she wants strife and you, as the 'official' Sunstormer keep being angry all the time...it kinda fuels the flames even more. Don't you think?"
He sits down with two cups.
" And has your hatred of Muslims really helped you feel better? Does hating Khemis and all the others who share her religion make the world less of a horrible place? I'm asking because people are already doing the same to US. The FBI thing...how many of us got death threats afterwards? And for the record, I know of a few at least who would have loved to prevent what happened. But we can't see the future. How was anyone supposed to know? How do WE ALL deserve such hatred for what ONE of us did? I got SHOT. Probably because of who...WHAT I am. You might be tough and I'm...well, me, but I am terrified. I never did anything to anyone. Now I am being watched by some government superspies because of what? Because of what I MIGHT do?" Then he stops. " F*ck..."
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Neo-Paladin wrote: Thu May 25, 2023 7:46 am They created these soldiers before the Sunstorm, remember?Nemesis asks. They created monsters for their wars. Not in reaction to you.
"Yes, and that was very wrong, even if they had had informed consent from those soldiers. They are victims, not monsters! But my point stands. Making a situation where they will almost inevitably feel the need to make more helps no-one! Without Sunstormers the whole thing might have failed. Doing something that makes highly trained elite soldiers a bit superhuman but kills them in a year doesn't seem very cost effective to me! Let alone any law suits and bad publicity! But Sunstormers attacking the government just justifies doing more of that in the hope it will help! Will let people appear to be doing something!"
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Amused by Jun's sudden outburst and rant, Helen merely took a tentative sip of her steaming tea cup. It was quite good.

"Not quite so easy letting go of the past; of old anger, huh?" she said softly. "Welcome to my world. Have you at least contacted a good lawyer and told them of the situation?

For all i know, Khemis and Nemesis or even Nibiru are all one and the same. A madwoman with a multiple personality disorder and a sunstormer to boot. If so then something must be done.

Of course she could be innocent. Either way i don't think it's safe here. Sooner or later they are going to make their move although why they waited this long is beyond me. Do you know of a safe place to go when you do your vanishing act if things go downhill? Don't tell me. Keep it to yourself."
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----Helen---

" Still, I don't hate anyone who isn't a Sunstormer.", Jun says, then frowns. " Give me a moment", he says and grabs his laptop. After a few moments of typing, he looks up. " You mentioned a...Nibiru, right? As in...the 'pseudo-scientific' planet X? Sometimes also called...Nemesis?"


-----The others----

I am just accelerating the reckoning these people have had coming for a long time, Nemesis says.

" Two weeks is not much time...", McMillan says. " But it'll have to do."
Ebert nods, then hands something to his supervisor.
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"Wowee." Helen replied blandly, still sipping her tea. "How educational. First a psychology class then a lecture on ethics and now, joy of joys, an astronomy course. I still believe Pluto is still a planet by the way.

What exactly is this "Planet X" stuff anyway? Sounds like a porn title."
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Deborah focuses on Ebert and how does he expect McMillan to react to whatever he was just handed. Then (next round) she jumps into McMillan to see what he really thinks about it before he might say something (potentially different to Ebert).
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----Helen----
Jun sighs.
" You just love to rub people the wrong way, don't you?"
He reads on a bit. " Nibiru or Planet X is a supposed planet that will crash through our solar system and destroy the Earth in the near future...at least, according to people who claim they have talked to aliens. And some conflate that with Nemesis, a star that periodically sends comets into the solar system. Also, not supported by evidence. I wouldn't give it a moment's credence...but these have been some weird coincidences...wouldn't you say?"

------The others-----
Ebert has no expectation, given that he just handed him an USB stick containing recordings the observation team made.
This is also what McMillan expects it to be.
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Neo-Paladin wrote: Fri May 26, 2023 8:15 am I am just accelerating the reckoning these people have had coming for a long time, Nemesis says.
"'These people'?" asks Khemis in her continuing whisper, quote marks audible around the words. "Which people? Non-Sunstormer people? The government? Or the governments of the world in general I guess? Unleashing random superpowers hardly seems like a good way to go. You are going to harm far more innocent people that evil ones that way. And it is the wrong approach in any case. As the Holy Quran says, 'Allah has praised those who respond to evil with good deeds. Those who repel evil with good will find that their enemies will become their friends.' Have you considered that that approach might work better?"
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You can write down your wishes for a better world in as many 'holy' books you want, it will not change the facts. The meek will be victimized. They always were. Until now.
'But behold, I will give swords to the weak, swords and the will to use them. And the tyrants and oppressors will be cast down to be trampled under flaming feet. Great gales and thunderclaps will topple the towers of the mighty and my children will be exalted to lead the way into the future.'
Is this kind of language more to your liking?

Nemesis leans back, smiling softly.
There is no higher power that cares about you. There is only me.
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"I am sorry you think that, but you are wrong!" Khemis tells Nemesis firmly. "Allah is there above us all and always has been. Loving us and watching us."

"With help from Allah we can and must make a better world in His name. And it will not be built on a foundation of blood and tyranny, whether of Sunstormers or not. But on one of equality and love under Him. Only then will things last and not a constant churn of violence, which it appears is what you prefer. Obviously it will not be easy or simple. But it is the only way!"
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To say Helen was skeptical about Jun's revelation was putting it rather mildly. "Coincidences? Of what? That a comet or other type of celestial body somehow landed on earth and is cooperating with rogue elements of the government against sunstormers? Do you have any idea on how crazy that sounds?

I go and tell my superiors downtown some nonsense about magic space rocks and I'll dwell in a mattress padded room in a insane asylum for the rest of my life. That is if they don't send me to a lab to get dissected."
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----Helen----
" Hey, I didn't say I believe in this. But maybe this Nibiru person and Nemesis...are connected? Or even the same? Look, I have come into contact with other Sunstormers over the last few weeks...and I can tell you that most of them are just normal people. And most of them are scared out of their minds. We feel trapped. Between this Nemesis on the one side and the government on the other."

-----------The others -------
Believe whatever you want, it won't help you. The higher powers of this universe do not care what happens to your pale blue dot.

Meanwhile, McMillan hands Ebert a black plastic bag. According to his thoughts, it contains more drugs to keep the body chemistry of him and the others balanced.
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"I've met Nibriu, she's kind of hard to miss. She had a assistant lurking near her, some guy who looks like a funeral home director that has watched far too many 'Get Smart' episodes and named himself Khaos with a K. Don't ask." Helen said grimly, finishing her tea.

"Anyway, Nibiru had me go after another sunstormer, a DuPont who apparently has a bright future supplying mushroom toppings for pizzerias, but my heart wasn't in it and left him with a warning. Hopefully The King of Fungus will take the hint and leave town to create his mushroom kingdom elsewhere.

Nemesis, however, i have no clue about. I really don't see the point of having two different identities with a similar meaning if they are the same person."
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