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We're in a building, about ten of us. One woman is in charge, and tells us we have to fight each other, in the next coming weeks one on one, randomly chosen by the computer, and the loser is sent to die. The woman in charge is the one who kills them.

After a few days, it's my time to fight, and I find the paper that the machine prints to tell us who is to fight....but something is wrong? It also already states who is to win and who is to lose. Luckily it says I'm the one to win this match.

More days pass. More people arrive. More die. Another paper from the computer. Only this one is even more wrong? No one is going to lose this match? Which is great, I have a plan. I can manipulate this, use it for future matches so none of us have to die.

And I do this. For days. No one dies.

More days pass and the leader takes me to a quiet place and says "it can't hear us here. But you're going to have to stop doing this. The computer will figure it out, and it will just kill us all"

Okay so ...that's why she killed them? So that she wouldn't be killed? I'm scared, I don't want everyone to die. I've bonded with them. I've fallen in love with one of them. I love them all. But I have to go back to the old ways...just hoping that he will live as long as possible.

Days pass. The paper prints. I have to fight again. But I...I will lose. It's my time to die. The computer knew what I did. I have to die.

The leader pulls me to the place where the computer doesn't hear us and tells me the truth. She doesn't kill us. Only on paper. And she doesn't tell us until it's our time to die. Because the computer would know. I'm not going to die. But I do have to leave. I have to leave them all. I have to leave him. And he'll think I'm dead. Until it's his turn.

The time has come. I have to fight a friend, not him, another friend. I lose. She cries. I try not to. He cries too. I still try not to. The leader grabs me pulls my arm behind me and holds my head and body down onto the table in front of him. I try to let him know I'll be okay. But I can't say anything. Because then the computer will know. And he'll die anyway. I kiss him goodbye.