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CHAPTER 118 - PRISON VIOLENCE
The transfer to federal prison happened three days after sentencing. Ral sat handcuffed in transport van watching Washington suburbs disappear into rural Maryland landscape where high-security facility waited like concrete tomb for next eighteen years of his life."FCI Cumberland," guard announced as facility appeared through morning fog. "Your new home. Follow rules, keep your head down, maybe you survive your sentence."The intake process was deliberately dehumanizing—strip search, cavity search, delousing shower, prison uniform that erased individual identity. Ral became prisoner 47829-016, federal inmate serving eighteen years for conspiracy and terrorism-related charges."You're going to C-Block," classification officer informed him. "Medium security wing. High-profile inmates like you get special attention from other prisoners. Some see killing terrorists as patriotic duty. Watch your back constantly."The warning proved accurate within first week. Ral was eating lunch in cafete
CHAPTER 117 - INTERROGATION
The interrogation room was deliberately designed to psychologically destabilize—fluorescent lights creating shadowless environment that distorted time perception, temperature kept uncomfortably cold to maintain alertness, metal chair bolted to floor preventing any position that might offer comfort during extended questioning. Ral had been sitting for six hours while federal agents rotated through, each bringing different approach to extracting testimony.Agent Sarah Chen returned for her third session, carrying thick folder that suggested extensive preparation. She sat across metal table with expression suggesting professional detachment masking calculation about how to leverage his cooperation most effectively."Let's start again," she stated, opening folder to reveal surveillance photos from Volgograd. "Thirty-four confirmed deaths across your campaign. We've identified twenty-six of them. Eight remain unknown, which complicates our ability to verify your testimony. Help us identify
CHAPTER 116 - SURRENDER
The FBI field office materialized through morning fog like bureaucratic monument to institutional power—concrete and glass structure designed to project authority through architectural intimidation. Ral sat in passenger seat while Dmitri drove, Maya and Yuri in back seat, all silent as condemned prisoners approaching execution."Last chance to run," Dmitri offered without conviction. "Turn around, head for border, disappear into extraction network before federal custody makes disappearance impossible.""No," Maya stated firmly. "We finish this. Complete what we started by accepting what we became."The parking lot was empty except for three black SUVs positioned near entrance—federal agents waiting to take custody immediately upon arrival, preventing any possibility of escape or final reconsideration. Ral recognized the formation from countless operations he'd planned himself. These agents were professionals executing well-rehearsed protocol."Federal Agent Sarah Chen," woman emerged
CHAPTER 115 - FINAL NIGHT
The hours before surrender stretched like elastic time where minutes felt like hours and hours passed like seconds. Ral sat with Maya on safehouse balcony, watching Moscow lights flicker through winter darkness while Dmitri and Yuri coordinated surrender logistics inside."Alexei left an hour ago," Maya observed. "Just... disappeared without goodbye. Can't blame him. Goodbyes make everything harder.""He made his choice," Ral replied. "We made ours. No judgment either way. Survival takes different forms for different people.""Do you think he'll actually survive?" Maya asked. "Running alone with forged documents, no support network, hunted internationally? Or does he just die slower and more isolated than us?""I don't know," Ral admitted. "Maybe he builds new life somewhere authorities never find him. Maybe he's caught within months. Maybe isolation destroys him before capture does. Too many variables to predict outcome."They sat in silence, breath crystallizing in frozen air, both
CHAPTER 114 - THE CHOICE
The argument erupted immediately, voices overlapping in safehouse that suddenly felt suffocatingly small for conversation that would determine whether they died as fugitives or witnesses."You had no authority to negotiate on our behalf," Ral stated, voice tight with anger masking deeper fear. "Immunity deal means federal custody, interrogation, trial, years in prison even with reduced charges. That's not survival—that's slow execution.""Running separately is fast execution," Maya countered. "We scatter across continents, live as strangers to ourselves, carry guilt alone until it destroys us. At least testimony means deaths accomplished something beyond revenge.""Testimony accomplishes our imprisonment," Dmitri observed, though his tone suggested he was evaluating rather than rejecting the proposition. "Federal authorities don't offer immunity from generosity. They want intelligence on network remnants, want testimony that justifies their own failures to prevent our campaign, want s
CHAPTER 113 - DISPERSAL
The safehouse outside Moscow felt like crypt where survivors gathered to contemplate their collective damnation. Ral sat at table littered with casualty reports, extraction schedules, and forged documents that would allow them to disappear into various corners of the world where international manhunts moved slowly."Volgograd police identified seven bodies at the scene," Dmitri reported, monitoring news feeds despite wounds that required hospital attention he couldn't risk seeking. "Louis among them. Official statement calls it gang warfare between criminal organizations. They're not mentioning international terrorism yet, which buys us maybe forty-eight hours.""Forty-eight hours to accomplish what?" Maya asked from window where she'd maintained vigil since their arrival, watching street for signs of approaching authorities."To scatter completely," Ral answered. "Separate, eliminate connections between us, disappear into different continents so if one is captured the others remain s
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