Elle even told me a few months    
later, “We can go faster, because now  
we don’t have to worry so much about   
missing one. Hopefully, we don’t start 
getting sloppy, but if you notice that 
happening, can you give me a heads up?”
     “No problem,” I told her, and then
added, “So far, from my end, it’s about
the same as before. Maybe one or two   
more than usual, but that’s manageable,
right?”                                
     “Oh yeah, that’s definitely man-  
ageable,” she said.                    
     Like I said, the Techs there were 
awesome.                               
     I think maybe Alicia also talked  
to them about it, because they started 
giving me even more pitiful looks than 
before this whole head banging business
happened.                              
*      I never asked her about it, and     
not because I didn’t care, but because 
I really didn’t want to know. But also,
because their sympathy helped my       
stories sound more believable.         
     I don’t know why it worked that   
way, but I took full advantage of it,  
and that Secret Room was my target.    
     I know it’s mean, and that I’m a  
low life scum for doing it, but I fi-  
gured that it might get someone talk-  
ing, just to shut me up.               
     That’s one of the reasons why,    
even as sick as it was, I still did it.
     And that brings us to the Secret  
Room.                                  
     The Secret Room wasn’t secret be- 
cause it was hidden. Everyone knew ex- 
actly where it was. The door to get    
into it was inside another room that   
everyone called the Outer Office. I    
called it the Oh Oh Room.              



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