Total pages in book: 43
Estimated words: 40966 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 205(@200wpm)___ 164(@250wpm)___ 137(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 40966 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 205(@200wpm)___ 164(@250wpm)___ 137(@300wpm)
David: It's a cliffhanger. Serials do that.
Kowalski: It's not a CLIFFHANGER, David. It's a CRIME against my . I am a before and an after and the dividing line is Legion Kane unconscious in Montana dirt. I NEED BOOK TWO IMMEDIATELY.
David: Well—
Kowalski: Do NOT tell me to wait for next week's assignment.
David: I was going to say the serial structure is effective—
Kowalski: You're being weirdly calm about this ending.
Kai: Suspiciously calm.
David: I'm a measured reader.
Kowalski: You CRIED during Colleen Hoover.
David: That was allergies.
Castillo: You defended Marcus for forty-five minutes without raising your voice. Your baseline agitation on book club calls is significantly higher. You're either medicated or you know something.
Marsh: …
Castillo: …
Kai: …
Kowalski: …
David: …Fine. I read all five.
Kowalski: YOU—
David: One sitting. Eleven PM to six AM last Tuesday. I have been PRETENDING to be objective this entire call and I can't do it anymore because Marcus is not— he's so much WORSE and what he does to Savannah—
[CONTENT REDACTED BY MODERATOR: KAI]
David: —and BRICK, Brick is NOT who you think—
[CONTENT REDACTED BY MODERATOR: KAI]
David: —and the VOTE, oh God, when Legion has to—
[CONTENT REDACTED BY MODERATOR: KAI]
David: KAI STOP CENSORING ME—
Kai: NO SPOILERS. YOUR OWN RULE.
David: MY RULE IS STUPID. THESE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
Kowalski: WHAT HAPPENS TO LEGION? DAVID. IS HE OKAY? DOES HE—
[CONTENT REDACTED BY MODERATOR: KAI]
David: KAI.
Kai: You'll thank me later.
David: Let me say ONE thing. Not a spoiler. An opinion.
Kai: …One thing.
David: I was wrong about Marcus.
Marsh: …
Castillo: …
Kai: …
Kowalski: …
David: I was wrong about Marcus and I was wrong about Legion. There is a moment — I won't say when — where Legion does something so quietly selfless it broke every framework I had for who he is. I've been defending the wrong man this entire call.
Marsh: David?
David: I'm embarrassed. I sat here championing financial stability while this man — this man with twenty-seven dollars and a demon's name—
Kowalski: David. Are you crying?
David: I have ALLERGIES.
Castillo: It is February in an indoor facility.
David: I have INDOOR allergies.
Kowalski: The book broke David. THE BOOK BROKE DAVID. This is the greatest day of my LIFE.
Kai: For the record, I also read ahead. Finished all five Thursday night.
Kowalski: WHAT
Castillo: …I may have acquired the remaining installments. For geographic verification.
Kowalski: EVERYONE READ AHEAD EXCEPT ME??? I am being VICTIMIZED by this book club. I am the ONLY person suffering in real time. This is a HATE CRIME against my —
Marsh: I DNF’d after Book 3 because the psychological implications of—
[CONTENT REDACTED BY MODERATOR: KAI]
Marsh: Oh, come ON.
David: Official position. Book 2 next week. Nobody spoils. Nobody Google Earths.
Castillo: The Google Earth window stays open. The cottonwood tree line is visible in satellite imagery. I've matched the grain elevator. Decommissioned since 2011.
David: We don't need incident mapping. OK, that’s it people! Same time next week.
Kowalski: I'm reading it TONIGHT. I am going to my way through all four remaining books and come back WEAPONIZED.
Castillo: Filing a geographic addendum.
Kai: Blood in.
[10:54 PM — AGENT: DAVID has ended the meeting]
[10:55 PM — AGENT: KOWALSKI has restarted the meeting without David]
Kowalski: He's gone. Who's telling me what happens to Legion?
Castillo: 46.7918° N, 105.2847° W. Start there.
Kai: Nobody tell her. She needs to read it.
Kowalski: Kai I SWEAR —
Kai: Read it. Trust me.
Kowalski: …Fine. But if he I'm transferring field offices. And burning this one down.
Kai: He doesn't—
[CONTENT REDACTED BY MODERATOR: KAI]
Kai: I just censored myself. I need to go to bed.
[11:01 PM — AGENT: KOWALSKI has ended the meeting]
[11:01 PM — SCIF-CHAT AUTO-SUMMARY: MEETING TRANSCRIPT COMPILED]