The human called Alpha looked at us all in the eyes; he did not stop at anyone in particular, but he did scrutinize us from his bed...
"Don't be so serious; you thought that a company would send two thousand players to experience a real game without first guaranteeing that you could survive. I am both an Alpha tester, as my name says, and a supervisor..." The story could fit with the dynamics of the world of video games, but something in my spine told me that that was not the whole truth...
"And how did you end up so injured?" Birta asked.
"It's a long story... on the way here, I found myself in a forest with six of your people, wounded and mutilated, waiting for death... I don't know what those guys had done to you, but at that moment I only fulfilled my mission, saving as many players as I could." He was referring to Wholgan and his minions.
