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Living in the City is never quiet. Car horns, passing AVs , sirens, blaring advertisements, and the vast multitude of voices are the unnoticed hum surrounding your life. Whether you are in the combat zone or in the Corporate Center, the noise of millions of people crushed into the closest quarters surrounds you. Silence is a luxury, and luxuries are for the rich.
The first thing you notice is the silence. The blood pounding in your ears seems overwhelming, until you finally hear some quiet, muffled voices nearby. You open your eyes, but you still are surrounded by darkness. You panic and wonder, How did I get here? An intense fleeting image of the familiar interior of an AV-4 flashes in your mind. As you look around at the three other operators checking their weapons one more time the pilot calls back to you, ”Thirty seconds to Drop Zone.” One of the other figures in the back of the vehicle stands and looks at you and others, ”Don’t forget, we only get paid if this guy makes it out alive. Quick and quiet, and it’s a cake walk.’
Your last memory fades and you are left in darkness.