TIMOFEY
"She's losing it."
I almost detect a bit of sympathy in Akim's voice. I'm not wholly surprised. He has said numerous times he would never slaughter his own meat.
"We had chickens when I was a kid. I like them. So chickens are off-limits," he told me once. "And cows are too big. Those guns that shoot bolts into their heads? Hard pass. Maybe I could kill a bird, but…. No. Definitely not."
It's funny, considering how much death he has experienced. Still, if given the choice, Akim avoids the slaughter at all costs.
I've been around long enough to know that, sometimes, you don't have a choice.
"Everything will end the moment she gives me the information I need," I tell him.
Piper is fuzzy and pixelated when seen through the feed of the shitty security camera in the interrogation room. But I can't take my eyes off of her.
