CONFESS Comms: Meeting

**Voll:** Mr. Wollum. Thank you for meeting me.

**Wollum:** Prime Minister. I hope you don't mind my insistence we meet in a public place. Given recent...tensions between us, I wanted to take precautions, no offense.

**Voll:** Of course, no problem at all. I have no ill intent towards you. Shall we sit?

**Wollum:** I have to admit, I have surprised to receive your message. Given the recent leaks on your little scheme.

**Voll:** Let's not be hostile, Mr. Wollum. Unlike what those cyber-anarchists claim, they only released bits and pieces of a larger national security directive, cherry-picking small bits and pieces out of context to mislabel my intentions. And when your party voices support for known terrorists, it is well within the right of my security services to look into it. In any case, I've made mistakes, I admit that. I came to bridge the gap between my government and your Progress Party. Norway cannot prosper if we're divided.

**Wollum:** Mistakes like what happened in Stockholm?

**Voll:** I did not order that attack. The FNF leaders deceived me as to the true nature of their actions. I would never condone the killing of innocents.

**Wollum:** Your statement about Fawley suggests otherwise.

**Voll:** At the time, I was unaware the casualties were civilian workers. I was led to believe by Brooks that her attack was on a military oil depot. And given the recent bombings, and Sigmus's open hostility towards us, I blamed the obvious culprit. At least that's how it seemed at the time. I realize now I'm wrong.

**Wollum:** Why do you associate with that dictator? If you truly care about a free Norway like you say, why align us with her?

**Voll:** I admit, Brooks has her flaws. A great number of them. But would you deny the Russian Federation has been growing ever more militant. I mean, look at Crimea, their involvement in Georgia and Ukraine a few years back? With us so close to their borders, what makes you think they will not try to occupy us if NATO or Sigmus emboldens them further?

**Wollum:** I don't disagree with you, and I believe that Sigmus and the GSA's alignment with them is an error. But could we not choose not to take a side?

**Voll:** That's not an option. I attempted that, and we've been under siege. The sanctions, the bombings, the pirates raiding our vessels. I sought to lead Norway into a golden age, without the interference of others. But in doing so, I've made myself a hated woman.

**Voll:** But perhaps...that is a benefit. If everyone sees me as an irritation, there's a good chance they'll miss what I'm really doing.

**Wollum:** What are you really doing?

**Voll:** A Free Norway doesn't just mean democracy, Mr. Wollum. It means freedom from outside forces. Freedom from Russian occupation. Freedom from needless bureaucracy of the United Nations and the European Union. And eventually, freedom from relying on Skyler Brooks and the New American Empire. But in my efforts to achieve that freedom, I've awoken something dangerous in my people.

**Voll:** The FNF has grown too dangerous, Wollum. Stockholm proved that to me. They may see me as a rallying point, but I don't have any control over them. Promise me, if something happens to me, you'll protect Norway? Something bad is coming, I can feel it. Norway needs heroes, now more than ever....

*(gunshot)*

**Wollum:** Sniper! Get down!

*(screaming)*

**Wollum:** The Prime Minister's hit! She's not breathing! Someone call an ambulance!