This is Shelly Nakajima, and I’m still alive. Jason is not. He… he died last night in the arena, and he was the last captive pushed into the ring to fight. The rest of us, those that have survived and those that weren’t thrown into the ring, are being held in this cattle pen, and most of us are badly hurt. Sometimes they pick one out and whip them. I think they do it because they can.

Things have changed here. The gladiator fights seems to have been crowd pleasers. And all these… people, colonists, they just died to please these… beasts.

I’m sorry, I can’t… the Feffoids and Argonaughts have sent their champions into the ring, and… they are slugging it out, and… they do. They are so scared and excited and… you can see the blood-lust as they fight. The crowd is… very much the same. There’s so much blood and violence and pain, so much that we can feel it. It’s an avalanche of fear rolling over us, and some of us have already given in and gone… gone… catatonic…

Shelly Nakajima, for EBN News, uhm.