A Note....

[FOUND ON A NAPKIN IN THE PARKING LOT OUTSIDE THE FOUNDRY. WATER-DAMAGED. PARTIALLY ILLEGIBLE. TRANSCRIBED AS-WRITTEN. ATTRIBUTED TO "TOXIC WASTE" RANCID BASED ON HANDWRITING COMPARISON WITH PREVIOUSLY FILED DOCUMENTS.] ———————————————— so they put me with the suit the SUIT dorian "i wear a tie to a fight" graves ok thats fine that is FINE i can work with that. i can WORK with THAT he thinks he is going to fight me he thinks he is going to fight a MATCH there is no match there is what i bring into the cage and there is what walks out of it. and what walks out of it is me. and what walks out of it is also dorian graves but in PIECES. plural. multiple PIECES. that is what we are doing tomorrow. that is the schedule. [SECTION ILLEGIBLE — APPROXIMATELY THREE LINES] — — — he wrote a thing. someone showed me. he wrote a THING. about being underestimated. about being UNDERESTIMATED. fifteen years he says. eleven states three provinces. he COUNTED THEM. that is what kind of man you are fighting tomorrow ladies and gentlemen of the strife combat fed. a man who COUNTED THE STATES. i have not counted the states. i have counted what i did in them. — — — [ILLEGIBLE] — — — he says i am a CATEGORY. a category of fighter. a category the federation will EVENTUALLY need to decide. eventually. EVENTUALLY. fine. tomorrow night i am the category that decides FOR them. tomorrow night the federation finds out what the category does when the category is annoyed. and i am annoyed. i am very annoyed. the suit annoyed me. ok ok ok [INK SMUDGE] ok here is what is going to happen he is going to come out in his coat. he is going to look at me with the face. the face he does. the face that says i have already won this. and i am going to take that face and i am going to introduce it to the cage wall and i am going to keep introducing it to the cage wall until the face is something else. something better. something with a story. a story of meeting the wall many times. he says i am STAGED chaos. he says it is STAGED. tomorrow i am going to show him what staged means. staged means scheduled. staged means SCHEDULED. tomorrow at the main event time, scheduled, on the federation's official broadcast, in front of every paying customer, i am going to schedule his face into the cage wall multiple times. that is staging. that is the schedule. he wants staging i will GIVE him staging. — — — [BLOOD STAIN OR POSSIBLY KETCHUP] — — — a thing about the cage. a thing about THE CAGE. they call it the crucible. CRUCIBLE. you know what a crucible is. a crucible is a vessel where you put metal and you melt it. that is what a crucible IS. you do not FIGHT in a crucible you DISSOLVE in a crucible. dorian graves does not understand the room he is walking into. he thinks the room is a fighting ring with extra walls. it is NOT. it is a crucible. it is for melting things. tomorrow night i am going to melt him. that is what crucibles are FOR. — — — i am going to win. i am going to win because dorian graves has never been in a fight with a man who has nothing to lose. he has been in fights with men who had reputations to protect, careers to manage, families waiting for them. i have none of those things. i have a cage and an opponent and a schedule. tomorrow at main event time the schedule activates the suit comes apart — rancid [END OF NAPKIN. REVERSE SIDE CONTAINS A DRAWING THAT APPEARS TO DEPICT A CAGE WITH A FIGURE INSIDE IT. THE FIGURE IS WEARING A TIE.]