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mostdangerousbird ([personal profile] mostdangerousbird) wrote in [community profile] metalogs 2023-04-17 02:58 am (UTC)

It will work.

[ He sounds more assured than he actually is. Tim would’ve liked to go about this some other way - a contact at the Post, Gazette, or Planet. Something less obvious than walking in the front door and demanding to be seen.

Which is, in fact, what they’re doing.

The lobby of the newspaper is crisp white, with a wooden accent wall behind the receptionist. The name in backlight Times New Roman.

Tim walks right past the desk and continues into the cubicle farm over the belated protests of the secretary. He’s not going to wait in the lobby to be seen. When he hears the first call for security, he announces in a loud voice.
]

My name is Timothy Drake-Wayne. I was abducted from campus four days ago, and I’m still in danger right now. We have what you would call a “scoop” on government misuse of funds and internal paramilitary operations for whatever reporter has the best track record on protecting their sources.

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