So, Corporal Shephard, we meet at last. Please, don’t think that I’ve been avoiding you, a great many matters require my attention in these troubled times. I do hope you understand. Now, I require a further indulgence on your part. I cannot close my report until every loose end has been tied up. The biggest embarrassment has been the Black Mesa facility… but I think that’s finally taken care of itself.
Quite so.
But there is still the lingering matter of witnesses. I admit, I have a fascination with those who adopt and survive against all odds… they rather remind me of myself. If for no other reason, I have argued to preserve you, for a time.
While I believe a civil servant, like yourself, understands the importance of discretion, my employers are not quite so trusting. And rather than continually subjective to the irresistible human temptation of ‘telling all’, we have decided to convey you somewhere you can do no possible harm, and where no harm can come to you.
I’m sure you can imagine there are worse alternatives.
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