NBG What of the Demon?

A segment of the Green Meadows Museum’s official transcript of Alexander Phillip’s recorded interviews with Kingsley Montivelo, the former President of Shiva and leader of the Killer Liberation Army (KLA)

Kingsley Montivelo --- May 9, 1885

Introductory Interview with Kingsley Montivelo

Interviewer: Alexander Phillips
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[Noises as tape recorder is adjusted]

Alexander Phillips: It is May 9th 1885 at 12:03. I am with Mr. Montivelo in his living room.

Kingsley Montivelo: Very official

AP: Mr. Montivelo, they did not give me much time so, if you wouldn’t mind I would like to jump straight into the interview.

[Sound of a cup being picked up from a table and someone taking a sip]

KM: You may begin, although I doubt I can tell you anything you don’t already know.

AP: As you know, it is my intention to write another book on the Second Shadow War.

KM: Does another really need to be written?

AP: And I would like you to answer a number of questions I have, regarding David Farin and Rezan Masters

[A rustling of clothes as someone takes another sip]

KM: I am afraid I don’t know much.

AP: You were one of the main architects of the war.

KM: No, they wouldn’t have trusted me with anything like that.

AP: You were frequently visited by his ambassador, Damon Glasgow, and you personally went to Paradise in ’57.

KM: I’m afraid I don’t know what you’re talking about.

[A cup is placed on a table]
AP: And what of the Demon? Are you going to pretend you didn’t know him either?

KM: There were many men responsible for that—his reign of terror.

AP: You supported him more than most

KM: that is stretching the truth a little, don’t you think?

AP: You granted his kind freedom in Shiva during your presidency.

KM: As did your president.

AP: Our president didn’t sanction torture or a militarized police force.

KM: I did what I had to, to earn my people their freedom. No more, no less.

AP: Is that going to be your defense during your trial?

KM: If there is a trial.

[There is a long pause]

KM: How is your wife?

AP: This isn’t a revenge interview

KM: Has her condition improved?

AP: I just want to understand--

KM: Hm, I thought not. Is that why you’ve started this project? To get away from her?

[A chair scrapes as someone rises]

AP: How dare you?! Do not think that avoiding a trial, expunges you of any responsibility for that monstrosity or for the war. You let him lose and all of the death and destruction that followed in his wake is on your head. He is your responsibility, your legacy.

KM: You are obviously upset, Mr. Phillips. We should schedule this for another time.

[Sounds of someone else rising from a couch]

AP: I am tracking Samuel Winters down. If you don’t tell me what happened, he will.

KM: Good day, Mr. Phillips.