Antara Darah dan Hati: Dream Reality English Translation

Chapter 18 Part 3 "Interview"

*Play the song above

"Are you lost... in your lies?
Do you tell yourself I don't realize?
Your crusade's a disguise,
Replaced freedom with fear, you trade money for lives

I'm aware of what you've done.

No, no more sorrow!
I've paid for your mistakes!
Your time is borrowed!
Your time has come to be replaced!"
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"No More Sorrow" by Linkin Park

POV Tantri

I couldn't sleep last night thinking about the interview session I was going to do today. Interview, I really hate interviews because they can cut off some of the words and sentences that came out of my mouth to lead public opinion by using them as news headlines and memes when the words I spoke sounded ridiculous in front of them. There is no other way, I have to refuse to be interviewed unless the interview is held live and a lie detector machine used to monitor my body and the movement of my facial expression during the interview must be witnessed by a psychiatrist and the results of the lie detector and the psychiatrist analysis are shown in front of the media crew during the live interview as proof that I am not lying and what I say is the truth.

Time went on until finally it was time for me to be interviewed. Some of the media crew came to my room, introduced themselves and put forward their reasons for visiting me but every time they would start their interview I always refused to be interviewed and put forward the reasons. The media crew promised me that they would not twist my words even swore in the name of God that they would convey what I had said without twisting it in the slightest but I still refused.

I explained to them about me who didn't care about their vows. To hell with their vows even if they are using God's name because I know if their boss demands them to twist what I say so that I sound silly and look like a liar they will still do it including the event that had occured now where I refused to be interviewed, they will definitely twist this event's story and assume I am afraid of being interviewed and in the end what happened today will be conveyed by them in such a way that in the end I will just be seen as a liar and in the end it will be the same. If I am willing to be interviewed they will twist the answers that I give and if I don't agree to be interviewed then I will be seen as a coward and both will only tarnish my reputation.

In the end, after arguing with the entire mass media crew who came to me today they gave up and decided to come back a few days after today and would convey my request to their superiors and write my demands in the news they would deliver for today.

In the afternoon, I checked my search engine on my smartphone and news articles about me who refused to be interviewed had become a trending topic for today. One of the headlines that made me smile a little was the news entitled "Tantri Annie Dekker, A Policewoman Who Is Suspended For Allegedly Spreading False Information Challenges the Mass Media Crew and the Police Force to Reveal the Truth of Voice Recordings of Torture She Had Experienced.", and not just that title alone, there are other article which titled "Beautiful Policewomen Suspended Due to Accusations of Spreading False Information Challenging Police and Media Crew to Tell the Truth Regarding the Torture She Has Experienced.", as well as other articles in which the titles are controversial and in the news articles content contained my demands.

A few hours later, mevrouw Sofia called me because she wanted to talk about the news that came out today. She conveyed to me that she had already sent a request to her uncle his majesty the king of the Netherlands so that he would give the koninklijk besluit  to the mass media so that they granted my demands and requested that he give koninklijk besluit  to the police hospital to bring in psychiatrists who may be a witness for me when I'm interviewed.