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This episode contains mature language and situations. Listener discretion is advised. You wake

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to the sound of a train,
the clack clack clack of wheels in the

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distance. Is that the sound of
birds in a forest. No, it's

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angels in a choir. Or is
it demons from hell? It doesn't matter.

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You have no memory of how you
got here. All you know is

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that you are lost, and that
now you belong to the Gray Rooms.

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Hello, roomies, and welcome to
episode eighteen. They say in space,

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no one can hear you scream,
not even the warden if he could believe

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it. It. Hey, that's
right, roommates, we got a twisted

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tale for you, this time that
we plucked out from the endless void of

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space. Join us as author Stephen
Prowse takes us on a wild ride that

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Cal. All I'm saying is that
I like this side of you. You

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turning a blind eye while letting me
play it rough with fish boy. Well

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it excites a girl. You're not
going to let this go, are you?

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No? I'm not. What are
we going to do with the one

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we had to put in chains?
That robot fuck will be fine. He's

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just he just needs to shut the
fuck up. No, our special angelic

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friend, oh him. I think
we should recheck his restraints in the warding.

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I don't trust those restraints. If
the architect wanted him out of the

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picture, she should have just let
us kill him. Do you have that

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kind of power? Why don't you
come back to my room and I'll show

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you. Why don't you check on
the doctor. I'll see if I can

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convince your money to make her next
choice without all the mortal drama associated with

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making a decision. Sure, I'll
do all the heavy lifting. Wouldn't want

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you to ruin those soft hands.
Survive, evade, resist, escape.

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That was one of the last things
took said to me before they took them

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away. Really, suspicions have been
confirmed. Each train car is exactly like

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the interdimensional pockets that popped up all
over Earth. These species are connected by

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doors that serve as portals to pass
between them. The transition between the rooms

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is confirmed by suspicion when no movement
was detected in the confined area. Also,

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the interference on these magnetic records easily
picks up the changes. Moving from

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one caller to the other. Isn't
random either, But I didn't sense or

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reads the desire of the front occupant
and manifests the desired reality. The only

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thing I can't figure out is why
movement is simulated in all the rooms.

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Why a train? I think that
you beat a bell or something makes some

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noise. Next time, come dine
with me, we'll talk. Do I

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have a choice? Ironically, yes, you do. I could force you,

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but things around here run much smoother
when you comply. I think I'll

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just go there. Why is it
that humans always put up the most resistance?

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A little thing called free will?
Ah, Yes, the infamous free

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will of humans. Give me a
break. In almost every reality. All

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you do is destroy yourselves with your
free will? What do you mean in

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almost every reality. Have a seat. Ah, how's your time being in

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the gray rooms? Constant paranoia and
demonic captors? Oh, and dying all

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the time. It's been a great
stay. Well, it's all part of

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the process. Wine. You keep
saying that, but then having a real

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hard time believing you, And No, I don't want your damned wine.

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I wish management would just send you
to us intact, and I think it

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would make this process easier. Intact. Is there something we're missing? What

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is the last thing you remember before
arriving on this train. I was separated

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from my battle group in London.
No, I isolated myself. I found

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information at a dig site about a
weapon that could help us fight back against

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the monsters. Libert Altierimundi the Book
of the Other World. How did you?

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How did I know? I arranged
for you to find it? Well,

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my mother and her associates. That
doesn't make sense. Hmm. But

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do you remember what happened afterward?
I? I I don't know. I

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woke up here. Huh. What's
it worth to you to know how you

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got here? I'd rather know why
I'm here than how I don't even know

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where here is? Those are easy
questions to answer, you were here to

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choose, and you're on the Gray
Room's silver express Choose. Do you be

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the forms the doors? Yes?
Does it matter which door I pick?

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Why do I even have to pick
a door at all? It doesn't matter

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what door you pick, only that
a choice is made. If you don't,

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the results are less than optimal.
How about we make a deal?

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Not interested, I'll return some of
your memories to you. It will help

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fill in some missing pieces, but
only if you pick a door with no

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resistance. How does that help me? It will grant you some much needed

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clarity, and you can help us
with the other guest at Findley, his

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mind is fracturing beyond our ability to
repair. I think you may be able

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to help him. How can I
help? I can't fix a brain.

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That's where your return to memories come
into play. You unlocked the secrets of

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the book once. I believe the
knowledge will help both of us reach the

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same goals, get this project back
on track. What about Zuck? What

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about it? You and your partner
what's her name? Cries? You were

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pretty rough at the last platform.
His people are difficult under the best of

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circumstances. I think he was sent
here as my punishment. You don't exactly

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look like you're suffering. He's the
reason I'm stuck in servitude to this damn

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place instead of at my mother's side. He's the reason I have to wear

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this mask. M hmm, do
we have a deal or not? All

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right? Deal? Excellent, Let's
move to the exit. We'll be stopping

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soon. Mh Holy shit, you
spark pretty good. This is great.

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Fuck you you deepon bitch. Ah. That's the nicest thing anyone said to

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me in a while. H sock, How are you overcoming the memory blocks?

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What makes you so goddamn special?
Dam where's my son? Where's Daniel?

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You can remember everything, but you
don't remember killing your own son.

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Interesting, he didn't die. He
transcended. That's what I said. He

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died. Impossible. Nothing in any
reality is created or destroyed. It merely

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changes form. Daniel transcended into a
pure soul, and you stole him before

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I could stabilize his vessel. You
aren't going to give a robot a soul.

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That's not how any of this works. You talk of rules and natural

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laws, how about machines don't get
fucking souls? Why not? Because then

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the soul would be trapped on the
ephemeral plane. Do you think hell is

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going to be denied? It's soul
traffic or the mouth all because of a

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fluke loophole. I knew it.
I knew this was hell. Fuck.

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It appears Daniel was more right than
he will ever know. Which master do

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you serve? Which circle do you
serve under? If? If I tell

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you, you're gonna spill, how
you overcame the memory blocks? Never I

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think your usefulness to this project is
over? There you are? What the

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fuck? Come on down? We
gotta go up? How did you find

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me? Never mind? Get me
off this contraption? Entitlement or thank you

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for calling? I appreciate your cooperation. I don't know how I'm supposed to

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help Finley or how you're going to
return my memories? Have you made your

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choice? Entitlement somehow feels fitting given
the nature of this place. Are you

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going to return my memories? Right
now? Where? It's hard to fathom

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the immensity of space until you wake
up floating alone in the dark, and

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somewhere within the vast nothingness, you
have to face the reality of true helplessness.

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In water, you twist your hips
and kick your legs and you can

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spin around in space. You do
it, and you barely change your trajectory.

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You just start spinning out of control. Luckily, with so very little

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around you, you don't get nauseated
like you do on the teacups. Still,

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I wish I hadn't done that.
While spinning, I searched for the

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Vespucci. She was one of the
first stellar research vessels. And she was

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mine, well not mine, she
should have been mine. She was nowhere

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in sight, and I'm spinning out
of control somewhere between Saturn and Uranus onitive

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dover damage US and we talk to
care and Supply within thirty minutes. It

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took just under two years to reach
Saturn's moon Hyperion. We orbited that odd

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rock for more than six months,
taking readings of its unique static energy,

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radiation routine crap sample study, send
reports, repeat no breakthroughs tedium. Once

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the team was satisfied we'd achieve that
directive, the captain gave the order to

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fire up the engines on my mark
ionic booster burn at fifty percent for fifteen

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seconds periapsis of eighty meters at forty
degrees north by twenty degrees south right Mark

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Highland segnaty normal shields holding. Is
that a gradiation and chin when we reach

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Periapsis ionic boosterburn at one hun Periapsis
in three two one manty sat still green.

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Captain, I'm picking up some sort
of energy surge on the surface status.

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I'm reading zero effect on shoes fectually
antiperty holding. The census censors are

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showing all systems no slingshot complete,
Captain, Hoosters, what was that readings?

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Right before it hit us looked almost
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from Hyperion's static field. If I
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approach somehow attracted it. How could
that happen? I've never seen anything like

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that. It did adjust our course, though, We're going to need to

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do a corrective burn soon or we'll
never reach our Kuiper belt of Felion.

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Before we do that, I want
a full diagnostic every system, every bolt.

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Something that hits us hard enough to
change our course could bite us in

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the ass. For the next twenty
seven hours, we inspected every inch of

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the Vespucci and found a little more
than some surface dust that had blown up

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from Hyperion. Our next burn corrected
our course and we were on route to

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our two year research orbit of how
Maya in the Kuiper Belts beyond Neptune.

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After some time, we fell back
into our regular research routines. I was

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taking some of the dust samples we
collected from the hull to doctor Brady for

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bioscans. I must be getting close
to bedtime. What holy crap. I

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searched the corridors nearly twenty minutes for
that dog. I know I saw a

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dog, but found nothing. I
told the doc who just sent me off

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duty, eat and sleep. He
said, told me, I have to

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check back in before I can return
to duty. Vespucci's galley was a long,

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rectangular room lined with cabinets containing various
prepackaged meals. Doc Brady kept the

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shelves stocked with rations. In the
center of the room was a single rectangular

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table with three stools on either side
and one on each end. All of

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it was fixed to the floor,
plenty of room for eight people, even

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though the ship's compliment was only five. The ship's engineer was already there,

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Mendisa a Bobbio. I hadn't met
her before we began training for this mission.

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I get that she may have been
the best and brightest Ghana had to

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offer. But this was an American
ship. One would think there'd have been

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plenty more qualified mechanics around, but
Nassa had probably needed to massage the international

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community to get us fully funded.
Engineer Ababio was having a whispered conversation with

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Jarrett Washington. With a name like
Washington, you'd think he'd been made of

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steel instead. This bookworm gets lifted
out of the South side of Chicago,

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handed a degree and made it on
to the mission roster as our psychologist as

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well as Brady's biological assistant. Apparently
they knew each other. They stopped talking

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when I walked in and stayed quiet
while I grabbed a dry steak kit and

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water pouch. I sat down at
the far end of the table from them.

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How are you, Commander? According
to the doctor, I'm tired.

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Judging by the looks I get everywhere, I'm crazy. No one thinks you're

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crazy, Sir, could have fooled
me. This mission has us all on

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edge. Mendesa and I were just
discussing some of the anxiety dreams we had

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when we first left Port. I
took a cultural psychology class as part of

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my bachelor's at LSU, I mean
lent the story of Doumboo Hag. I

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finally had a name for the sleep
paralysis I've suffered from childhood. I know

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she's not true, but it felt
good to It's at the phenomenon in feels

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as if it was something I could
fight. I don't think some goddamn imaginary

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which is attacking me in my sleep. What are you sweating, Commander?

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How the hell did flies get on
board? Someone needs to check our food

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supply, got it. There's nothing
there, Commander. Captain at ease?

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What were you seeing? Commander?
I knew it was impossible there were no

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bugs on a sealed and clean ship
in the middle of our solar system.

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But I swear I had been attacked
by a swarm of massive flies. Just

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before the Captain entered the galley,
I saw one land I hit it with

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my tray. There was nothing there, Commander, I must have been the

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stress. I haven't been sleeping well
since hyperion. Are we sure there was

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nothing in that flare? Commander,
go see Dak have him give you something

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to help you sleep. Mendiza,
I know you already ran the scans,

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but I want a full work up
every system, every inch of the ship.

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Captain and Jarrett, I want you
and Dak to run full evals on

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the entire crew. Every test you
two can think of, bloodwork, psych

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evals, cat scans, MRIs hell. If you think anal probes will tell

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us something, do it. Crew
and mission safety are paramount. Uranus is

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our last possible you turn for home
before the Kuiper belt. If we need

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to use it, I need to
know a zap Yes, Sir. An

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overreaction bordering on ridiculous, ordering tests
on everyone when it was clear that I

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was her target. I don't know
how that woman landed the Captain's chair instead

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of me, but I suspected had
something to do with who she knew.

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I made my way to sick Bay, the section of the ship der Dak

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Brady calls home. He was a
late ad to the crew, another confused

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person with too much education and not
enough common sense. Dak ran me through

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the usual tests. Reflex site auditory, checked my breathing, drew blood,

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scheduled a brain scan for my next
sleep cycle. Everything he did either turned

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up no results or needed time to
process. He was slow because he couldn't

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do the job properly fifteen minutes until
their supply we could stock to city.

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Please find an alternate, alternate point. The next few days were a blur.

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The crew suffered pokes and prods and
the mental gymnastics Jared Washington put us

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through, while at the same time
scrubbing every system topped to bottom, looking

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for whatever was attacking us, at
acking me. For most of those three

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days, I saw nothing more than
shadows shifting when I sat alone in my

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bunk, things that would sprint through
the corners of my periphery. When the

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blood results came back, Dak gave
me the news we all expected, nothing

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was physically wrong with me. I
made my way back to my bunk,

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pissed at the inept grew. I'd
been saddled with a confused doctor, a

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counselor more interested in fluffing egos than
actually doing his job, an engineer who

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couldn't fathom the complexities of American ingenuity, and a captain who likely slept her

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way to the top. That's when
things really went sideways. Who's there is

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someone there? Who where are you? I grabbed a pipe wrench from a

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tool locker near by and held it
ready to swing on the intruder ermy I

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saw her through the airlock window.
She stood thin and naked and pale.

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Her skin glistened with sweat, yes
looked scaly and dry. Her body was

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perfect, long legs stretched to a
neatly trim tuft of light brown hair that

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covered her sex. Her long blonde
hair draped past her shoulders and almost cradled

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her breasts. Her chiseled face was
accented by thick red lips, perfect teeth,

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and a thin nose that gracefully swooped
up her eyes. Her eyes were

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empty. They were bright and blue
and sparkled, but they were somehow dead

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and hollow. Her gaze dug into
my brain. She stood in the center

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of the airlock, completely unfazed by
the absolute coldness of that room. I

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lowered the pipe wrench and stared back. I've been reading you find you a

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superior human specim imprisoned Fabian at the
mercy You called me, I called.

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As she spoke, she moved towards
the door. She never took a step,

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yet she got closer and closer to
me, and I to her,

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And I couldn't move my eyes away
from hers. I swear she changed from

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woman to child to man and back
again. But I wasn't sure, because

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her eyes and her voice consumed me. You're kind these destiny for greatness.

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Your feet, the canking STARp tenify
your world of this under your mighty fist.

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But your people become bluted, weakened. Back up chapter death, back

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compassion. You abandoned your divine social
structure. You turned your back on your

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place with increas. Look at the
cruel of your ship. We confuse upset

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again, meant to be heroes to
the universe, and instead he slaying to

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the unknown. Its explorers not congruous. Week I. She and I reached

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the airlock window and placed fingertips against
it. I swear they touched through the

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glass. I could feel her warm
skin despite the cold window. Leadership hip

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which special people to me reading the
copies, you could be powerful, It

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might be great. I could see
her skin, flaky and wet, begin

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to darken, as if it were
burning. The pink flesh turned black with

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a sizzle. Where there would have
been a shriek of pain, there was

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only laughter. Then she was gone, you gone. She was behind me.

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She was not a human anymore.
She was a shadow with all of

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space swirling within her. The station
began to rattle and quake around me.

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Everything shook except her. Whatever she
was, she would tear my ship apart.

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I had to stop her. The
wrench was the only thing I had,

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and it was effective. She went
down hard as I swung through where

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her head would have been. The
shaking stopped. Everything stopped. I looked

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at the body on the ground.
It wasn't the shadow thing. It was

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a woman, head bashed and blood
spreading. It was Captain Quintero. I

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stared in silence at the blood oozing
from her open skull. I knelt and

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watched it leap down under the floor
grates till I d weakness to what she

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must. I dropped the wrench and
opened the airlocked door, before lifting and

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dragging the Captain's body in, I
pressed a couple of buttons and the door

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closed. That soothing whisking sound was
the outer door opening and Quintero's body being

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blown into the emptiness of space.
Once it closed, I watched her float

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limply away through the airlock windows.
Her body was now as useless as she

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had always been. What have you
done, jarrett I, What did you

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just do? Have to screen you? You know what must be done.

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I haven't alert about an airlock opening. The captain is I left into action.

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I couldn't get a good grip on
his throat, but I shoved him

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back and we knocked over the toolbox
before falling to the floor. He got

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his foot against my stomach and pushed
me off of him. I landed on

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a screwdriver and grabbed it before he
could get fully to his feet. I

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was back on him and stabbed it
through the soft flesh in his hand.

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I didn't see his other hand swing
connected hard with my face and knocked me

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down before kicking me in the side. The cat right. I staggered to

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my feet before seeing the bolt gun
we had for plaiting repairs. I grabbed

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that and pursued Jarrett to the galley. The idiot had managed to corner himself.

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No, no, no, come
enter do my leg tear snappy,

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same steepy of your rightful place?
Who will prevent you from fulfilling your greatness?

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Fancying your species? Good commander?
What are you doing? Who?

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We must achieve our destiny, Jarrett. This thing that boarded us knows us

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and knows how we have failed as
a people. It will help save us

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all you're you're hallustenating. It's not
it's not real. You have to no,

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this will be quick now. I
don't know who hit me, dak

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Ramendisa, but someone powered hit me
hard from behind. You were a powerful

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They couldn't handle the truth. Instead, I woke up in a space suit

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in the vast nothingness of space,
left behind, abandoned. My mission failed,

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Humanity failed, all because an entitled
few couldn't see the truth that I

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saw. If only they would have
fallen in my down very well be like

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the turn things ah. I don't
want to talk anymore about my ship Oxican

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level of zero percent there has made
total toxic thing and being sounds like ah

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ah ah h. Entitlement Written by
Stephen Prouse, featuring performances by Aaron King

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as Captain Quintero, David Cummings as
the Commander, Antoinette Barry Snow as Mandissa,

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C. M. Peters as the
voice of the computer, Michael Turntine

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as Jared, and Jason Wilson as
to voice. If Nothing Break Nothing Moves.

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Written by Arthur Unk, featuring performances
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Jeff Clement as Zuck, Jack Carmichael
as Fendley, Brandon Greene as caliban A,

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Tanya Maloyevich as Cries. Musical composition
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