Interviewee: D-8375

Interviewer: Agent Ahmad bin Ibrahim

Foreword: The following interview aims to gain insight regarding the interviewee's whereabouts following the events of Experiment 2596/03, and is conducted in Arabic.

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Agent Ahmad: D-8375, peace be upon you. It has been a while since your disappearance, yes?

D-8375: I didn't disappear. You people put me on that piece of wood and sent me away.

Agent Ahmad: I suppose you recall your last test with my colleagues?

[D-8375 raises his palms, both of which were bandaged.]

Agent Ahmad: I see that you were treated for those injuries.

D-8375: No thanks to you people. [sighs]

Agent Ahmad: I can assure you that it was not intentional. We did not understand the phenomenon well enough then. It's still the case now, so we need information. So help us out. It is by God's will that you return to us today.

D-8375: [sighs] God willing. [pauses] Okay, what do you want to know?

Agent Ahmad: Let's start from where you went to after vanishing from the raft.

D-8375: I didn't know where it was exactly, but I was there before I knew it. And the first thing I saw were half a dozen Christians and Muslims armed with AK-47s.

Agent Ahmad: And how did you deduce that?

D-8375: Most of them were obviously Christians, with this strange cross with a diagonal line across the vertical one. The others were definitely Muslim. I think I can recognise my people, so to speak.

Agent Ahmad: Okay. How did they respond to your presence?

D-8375: I begged for their mercy. If you were in my situation, you would too! I mean, I was naked and in no position to do anything else! But fortunately, they realised I mean them no harm and gave me something to cover myself. I was lucky too. When I appeared, they looked ready to gun me down.

Agent Ahmad: Do you know why they spared you?

D-8375: Maybe a moment of mercy? Anyway, they then interrogated me. Asked me if I know anything about entering Heaven alive, where I was from and-

Agent Ahmad: Did you tell them about us?

D-8375: I was in no position to lie.

Agent Ahmad: What about the place you appeared in? Any distinct features?

D-8375: I was standing on wood. But I disposed of it at their orders.

Agent Ahmad: Their?

D-8375: The men who 'greeted' me when I arrived. They made me help out at their base since then, mostly menial labour.

Agent Ahmad: Can you elaborate on the menial labour?

D-8375: Err, physical stuff. They would ask me to clean up the stronghold sometimes. My first task was to help them dispose of severals bags of ashes in the Volga.

Agent Ahmad: Do you know any details about those ashes?

D-8375: I was told that they belonged to fools who thought they would enter Heaven but instead walk towards their deaths, so I should not pray for their souls at all.

Agent Ahmad: I see. So you have been working with those people since then.

D-8375: I have no other options. Look at me, I'm an Arab stranded in a foreign land. Besides, they told me that they were doing God's work and how I can do God's work indirectly by helping them. After what I went through in my life, I needed that.

Agent Ahmad: So did those people tell you why they were disposing the wood?

D-8375: Told me that it was no longer needed. You know, after I sawed off the wood, it was suddenly splattered with blood. And there were slices of flesh lying on the floor. At least the tattoo was still visible.

Agent Ahmad: What kind of tattoo was it?

D-8375: The same kind of tattoo you people gave me. [gestures to his chest and wrist, where identification tattoos are present] The number is the one after mine, although I did not know the person. Anyway, they then instructed me to burn everything.

Agent Ahmad: Does that include the wood?

D-8375: Yes, and I dumped the ashes into the Volga. They should still be there, I think.

Agent Ahmad: I see. Do you have anything else to say?

D-8375: Yeah. Keep me away from those people. I think they blame me for your people's attack on them. Their mercy runs thin.

Agent Ahmad: I can appeal for you, but no promises.

D-8375: Bless you.

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Closing Statement: Agent Ahmad has submitted an E-class application for D-8375 under the reasoning that he has been affected by SCP-2596 previously and due to potential knowledge regarding Project Malleus. Pending approval.