Inmate Zero

But the fun always has to end.

Now you listen.

I know this is hard for you to understand, and I hope our conversation so far has prepared you for the fact that your tiny human brain can never truly understand any of this.

But I am grateful for you, Banner Watson.

Oh, that ambition and ego.

They called to me, even through the miles of rock that sit above us right now.

Do you know how long I have been a captive, Banner Watson?

Long before your people threw me into this hole.

by this faction or that.

Centuries of human history rolled by as I sat in an iron cage and was buried deep in an underground cave where my personal favorite, held in a giant aquarium, submerged for decades.

The Queen once kept me in a crypt on her royal estate.

She fed me her enemies and considered us friends.

She was a fool and died a wicked little death.

But, I must say, she tasted divine.

As close to God as I'll ever get.

They are quite noble in their sacrifice, rats are.

What all of my captors have never understood is that I can only be contained if I permit it.

This has all been for our own amusement.

you have to find ways of keeping from getting bored he presses his face to the window because if i am bored then thousands hundreds of thousands even millions may die he shrugs depends on my mood what

This is why you are here, Banner Watson.