Welcome to the Horizon Part 6: Back to the Black

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Speaker 6 Humans drink warm milk.

Speaker 7 What

Speaker 7 milk

Speaker 7 from a cow

Speaker 8 they warm it up and it helps them sleep

Speaker 10 great

Speaker 9 because of the peptides

Speaker 9 interesting bit.

Speaker 4 Apparently, if they milk the cow at night,

Speaker 8 the night milk works even better to help them sleep.

Speaker 9 Which raises the question: is the milk working better or are they just more exhausted from milking a cow at night?

Speaker 12 Well, it's disturbing that they take milk from another species and drink it.

Speaker 9 It started as a survival technique.

Speaker 9 They almost killed themselves about 13,000 years ago. They ate almost all the animals on the planet and had to hurry up and figure out how to stay alive.

Speaker 9 One of those ways was drinking the milk of other animals.

Speaker 12 Weird.

Speaker 14 It's more common than you think.

Speaker 9 The first animals that humans drank the milk of were most likely sheep and goats,

Speaker 4 as well as aurochs,

Speaker 9 the ancestors of the modern cow.

Speaker 12 What's up with the milk facts?

Speaker 9 You seem like something is wrong.

Speaker 12 Then ask me what's wrong.

Speaker 9 I would, but somebody, not saying who, disabled my emotional discourse protocols. So, in times like these, when you're pacing around the room like a caged animal, all I have are milk facts.

Speaker 12 Enable emotional discourse protocols.

Speaker 10 I'm sorry, what was that?

Speaker 12 Enable emotional discourse protocols.

Speaker 9 What's wrong, Verge?

Speaker 12 I don't know.

Speaker 12 I'm feeling antsy.

Speaker 17 Really?

Speaker 12 That's the extent of your emotional discourse protocols.

Speaker 9 Would you like to know why you're feeling antsy?

Speaker 10 Yes,

Speaker 4 Virg.

Speaker 9 You went over to that woman's house the other day.

Speaker 9 It was supposed to be something embarrassing and ridiculous.

Speaker 4 It was.

Speaker 9 It was.

Speaker 4 But that's not all it was.

Speaker 9 Would you like a readout of your vital signs during that encounter?

Speaker 12 Do you know her location?

Speaker 10 I do.

Speaker 18 What is her location?

Speaker 8 Are you sure that you want to do that?

Speaker 12 I'm gonna throw you in the fucking toilet. Oh my god,

Speaker 9 she's at work.

Speaker 12 Well, obviously, I'm no good here, so

Speaker 12 I should go for a walk.

Speaker 9 Yes, walking, of course.

Speaker 20 What the fuck is wrong with me?

Speaker 14 You're nervous.

Speaker 12 I don't get nervous.

Speaker 4 Not normally, no.

Speaker 10 You have a highly acute stress response in your neural clusters that keeps you calm when you're in danger.

Speaker 4 However,

Speaker 9 you are not in danger.

Speaker 10 And I'm sure you're saying to yourself, How can I be calm in a firefight and not here outside of this bar on a backwater planet?

Speaker 4 Well,

Speaker 10 you ironically do not have the protection of a dangerous situation.

Speaker 12 It sounds like you're enjoying this.

Speaker 9 I'm an algorithm.

Speaker 10 I'm incapable of enjoying things. I don't know what you're talking about.

Speaker 12 What happened to you constantly telling me that being here at all is a bad idea?

Speaker 10 Oh, I've abandoned that line to conserve processing power. Do you have any idea how many calculations I'm making on a second-by-second basis?

Speaker 14 Hi,

Speaker 22 hello.

Speaker 23 How are you?

Speaker 11 Fine.

Speaker 24 I'm fine.

Speaker 14 Yeah?

Speaker 24 Can I have a drag of your cigarette, please?

Speaker 17 Sure.

Speaker 24 Thanks.

Speaker 12 Busy night?

Speaker 24 Yes.

Speaker 24 Yes, you could say that, actually.

Speaker 12 Everything okay?

Speaker 24 Is everything okay?

Speaker 24 During Prohibition, rich people bought cabins in the woods where they could go and drink and party and not be bothered by the police. And that was

Speaker 24 about a hundred years ago.

Speaker 12 That's an interesting bit of history, Deidre.

Speaker 24 Yeah, well, they're here.

Speaker 12 Who's here?

Speaker 24 Them.

Speaker 24 Oh. From a hundred years ago, they're here.
Uh-huh. A bunch of rich people from the city a hundred years ago are having a party at the Sheep's Eye right now.

Speaker 24 I was hoping they were some sort of historical reenactors, but they're too good.

Speaker 24 It's happening. There are floppers in the building.
They're asking for bathtub gin. This is happening.

Speaker 18 You've just been serving them drinks.

Speaker 24 What am I supposed to do?

Speaker 12 I don't know.

Speaker 24 I've been trying really, really hard to keep my head screwed on these past few weeks. I've been trying to be everyone's...

Speaker 24 island of normalcy or some shit in the middle of all of this and um it's getting really fucking hard dude. Well, well, then

Speaker 12 fuck it, Deidre.

Speaker 7 Go home.

Speaker 12 Like, you don't have to do this to yourself.

Speaker 24 I know, and I almost did. About an hour ago, actually, but um,

Speaker 24 I guess it's my island of normalcy, too.

Speaker 24 And I have smoked your entire cigarette.

Speaker 24 I'm sorry.

Speaker 10 Let me help.

Speaker 24 What do you mean?

Speaker 12 Let me help. We'll get behind the bar.
We'll serve some drinks to people who are dead now, and we'll call it a night.

Speaker 17 Really? Sure.

Speaker 24 You're amazing. It's true.
Are you sure?

Speaker 14 Yeah.

Speaker 6 Let's go.

Speaker 25 Okay.

Speaker 24 Okay, here we go. All right.

Speaker 12 So, what was it like back then?

Speaker 24 You're about to find out.

Speaker 4 Whoa.

Speaker 4 Alright.

Speaker 24 It's been like this for hours. I keep waiting for people to get tired and no.

Speaker 24 Have you ever bartended before?

Speaker 12 Nope.

Speaker 24 Okay, well just do the best you can.

Speaker 12 Okay, cats and kittens, listen up. Please give me your drink orders and I will then give you whatever the fuck I want.
Are we clear?

Speaker 15 Excellent.

Speaker 12 You, sir, are getting a whiskey.

Speaker 16 How's that?

Speaker 24 Fuck, I'm doing that every day now. Here.

Speaker 12 We're instituting a one for them, one for us policy.

Speaker 24 Fuck it, let's go.

Speaker 12 Line up at the bar.

Speaker 24 Okay, people are talking really, really weird tonight, so let me just break it down for you. Okay.

Speaker 24 The bee's knees or the cat's pajamas, that means great or excellent. Bee's knees.

Speaker 24 Applesauce.

Speaker 12 Applesauce, sure.

Speaker 24 It means nonsense.

Speaker 19 Got it.

Speaker 24 These drinks are either giggle water or hooch. I like it.
Everyone is dressed up tonight, so they are wearing their glad rags.

Speaker 12 They have a name for everything?

Speaker 24 Well, they are all doing something really illegal right now, so they needed a lot of code words.

Speaker 12 I definitely understand that.

Speaker 24 Banks closed. What is that? Stop making out in public.
Whatever.

Speaker 24 What about you? Your neck of the woods. You must have a ton of code words, right?

Speaker 12 Too many.

Speaker 24 Well, then, teach me some.

Speaker 22 We're here.

Speaker 26 Okay.

Speaker 12 If you're in a jam, you're ironed.

Speaker 24 Ironed, like right now?

Speaker 6 Exactly.

Speaker 12 In the tubes, you're on your way.

Speaker 24 In the tubes?

Speaker 12 Unstable Unicorn. What? A safe place to be.

Speaker 12 But only for a while.

Speaker 24 Unstable Unicorn. Unstable Unicorn.

Speaker 12 Back to the black, starting from scratch.

Speaker 24 Back to the black.

Speaker 12 How about Sirlost?

Speaker 24 What is that?

Speaker 12 Bliss out.

Speaker 12 Lost in it.

Speaker 12 You meet someone those first few weeks?

Speaker 6 Sirlost. Cool.

Speaker 6 Um.

Speaker 15 Shelly act.

Speaker 24 Shelly act?

Speaker 12 Shelly act, your emotions are in control. You've abandoned all logic.

Speaker 24 I like that one.

Speaker 6 Yeah.

Speaker 24 Me too.

Speaker 24 Okay,

Speaker 24 I'm starting to enjoy myself. Good.
I should have been this whole time. I really like this time period.
I like the clothes. I like the music.

Speaker 12 Also, you don't know anybody.

Speaker 24 What?

Speaker 12 You live in a town of like 600 people. Everybody knows you.
Look around.

Speaker 12 None of these dead fucks know you right now.

Speaker 24 I like everyone knowing me.

Speaker 12 Yeah, I know. But the downside of everyone knowing you is that everyone knows you, you know?

Speaker 24 I can be anyone I want to be right now.

Speaker 12 Exactly. Yes.
So, Deidre, who do you want to be?

Speaker 24 Yeah, um, I'll let you know.

Speaker 12 Well, cheers.

Speaker 26 Jesus Christ.

Speaker 12 That was some impressive drinking in there.

Speaker 17 Uh-huh.

Speaker 24 It's what happens when you ban something. Just makes people want it more.

Speaker 12 So this prohibition you're talking about, they just banned booze, all of it, altogether, the whole thing. Yeah, all of it.
How did they even remotely pull that off with people like that that around?

Speaker 24 You know, I don't know, actually. I mean, it was a depressing time.

Speaker 24 People were drinking too much, and then some Bible thumpers got a hold of the reins, and all of a sudden, you couldn't have a drink anymore.

Speaker 12 I think I know this one. And it gave rise to a massive surge in organized crime.

Speaker 24 Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 12 Same old song.

Speaker 24 Thank you for your help. I would not know what to do if you hadn't shown up.

Speaker 12 Well, I am having a great time.

Speaker 24 Me too.

Speaker 24 How in the world did you end up here? I still don't quite understand.

Speaker 12 A friend told me about it a long time ago, actually.

Speaker 12 You know, one of those things that you ignore for a long time, then suddenly one day.

Speaker 12 Yeah. Huh.

Speaker 12 There's not a lot of places like this. Out of the way, hidden.

Speaker 12 Eyes are never on it.

Speaker 18 Most people pass through and never notice.

Speaker 12 You can be yourself.

Speaker 24 No one knows you here, so you can be whoever you want.

Speaker 12 Right.

Speaker 24 So,

Speaker 24 who do you want to be?

Speaker 12 I'll let you know.

Speaker 22 So, um, is

Speaker 24 this an unstable unicorn?

Speaker 12 This place

Speaker 24 safe, but only for a while.

Speaker 12 I don't know what this place is.

Speaker 12 Come dance with me.

Speaker 12 Oh,

Speaker 22 really?

Speaker 10 Yeah,

Speaker 24 you dance

Speaker 12 how hard could it be?

Speaker 24 So it's official. My life has become unrecognizable.

Speaker 23 How'd that happen?

Speaker 23 I mean,

Speaker 24 look around.

Speaker 24 My grandfather calls me a repeat offender. I kept leaving town to start my life, and

Speaker 24 after a couple years, I would either get bored or fail miserably and

Speaker 24 then end up back here,

Speaker 24 tending bar at the sheep's eye.

Speaker 24 But

Speaker 24 then the other day,

Speaker 24 I was talking to Frank and

Speaker 24 he thanked me for staying. A bunch of other people were leaving

Speaker 22 and he thanked me.

Speaker 24 And I had this moment where

Speaker 24 I

Speaker 24 wait, am I serving a purpose here?

Speaker 6 Am I

Speaker 24 actually contributing something positive to the world?

Speaker 24 Here

Speaker 24 in Hood's pocket.

Speaker 24 The place that I was always trying to get away from.

Speaker 24 But then...

Speaker 24 Right before that,

Speaker 24 I had this other moment where I said,

Speaker 24 hey, wait a minute. Is the hot, mysterious stranger flirting with me?

Speaker 24 Am I actually

Speaker 24 being seen, you know?

Speaker 24 And it's all happening right here.

Speaker 24 The place I was always trying to get away from.

Speaker 24 It all just showed up in my backyard.

Speaker 24 So, my usual guidebook is out the window now.

Speaker 24 My life is unrecognizable.

Speaker 12 A little presumptuous to say I was flirting with you.

Speaker 4 Oh,

Speaker 24 please.

Speaker 24 Got anything spicy in there? Really?

Speaker 24 Are you always that forward with people?

Speaker 12 It's a tactic.

Speaker 12 Preemptive flirting.

Speaker 12 You flirt with someone way too early, and so they have to take a gut check right at the beginning, see if they're up for it.

Speaker 12 Keeps me from wasting time on people.

Speaker 12 Oh,

Speaker 24 so

Speaker 24 I passed the test.

Speaker 25 I don't know.

Speaker 12 How are you feeling?

Speaker 24 What's that word you taught me?

Speaker 24 Sirlost.

Speaker 24 How about you?

Speaker 25 Shelly act.

Speaker 24 Kiss me, Birch.

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Speaker 24 Thank you kindly for the amazing makeout session and the truck.

Speaker 12 Well, the pleasure is all mine.

Speaker 24 So, um

Speaker 12 banks closed

Speaker 12 What

Speaker 24 I'm thinking

Speaker 24 I'm thinking about

Speaker 24 who I want to be.

Speaker 12 I'll take your time

Speaker 24 I am now going to um

Speaker 24 invite you into my house

Speaker 6 Wonderful.

Speaker 24 I am not inviting you in for coffee.

Speaker 12 Even better.

Speaker 17 Uh-huh.

Speaker 24 But

Speaker 24 I do need you to give me 60 seconds before you walk in the door.

Speaker 17 Why?

Speaker 24 Because

Speaker 24 I desperately need to feel like someone who keeps their house clean.

Speaker 24 Yeah.

Speaker 12 I was in there just a few days ago and it was a wreck. So, you know.

Speaker 21 Yes.

Speaker 24 Yes, but you're forgetting that we are never speaking of that day again, right?

Speaker 12 You're not going to change your mind in 60 seconds, are you?

Speaker 24 Absolutely not.

Speaker 14 You know what?

Speaker 24 I'm a new person tonight, so I'll just say it right now. Um,

Speaker 24 I'm making you pancakes in the morning.

Speaker 23 I

Speaker 12 can't have pancakes.

Speaker 24 What?

Speaker 24 Why?

Speaker 24 This is my power move.

Speaker 18 I just can't.

Speaker 24 Are you allergic or something?

Speaker 12 No, um, I'm just

Speaker 20 I'm a carnivore.

Speaker 22 Oh,

Speaker 24 well,

Speaker 22 prove it.

Speaker 12 My goodness,

Speaker 17 Earth.

Speaker 7 Who knew?

Speaker 4 You did.

Speaker 9 Quite some time ago.

Speaker 12 You know what I mean?

Speaker 12 Start a timer for 60 seconds.

Speaker 10 Counting down from 60.

Speaker 4 What

Speaker 10 exactly are we expecting to happen in there?

Speaker 12 Buddy, you need me to draw you a diagram?

Speaker 11 Kind of.

Speaker 12 Oh, don't start with a worrying now.

Speaker 8 She's going to be expecting a human.

Speaker 12 My earth suit is tactile.

Speaker 4 It's not that tactile.

Speaker 12 Well, then I'll just have to keep her distracted.

Speaker 6 So,

Speaker 12 besides, when the clothes start coming off for the first time, does anyone ever really know what they're getting?

Speaker 7 Don't worry.

Speaker 12 I'm leaving you on this porch for this one.

Speaker 10 My algorithm thanks you.

Speaker 9 And that is sixty seconds.

Speaker 12 Don't wait up.

Speaker 15 Did you hear that?

Speaker 15 I did.

Speaker 4 Anything

Speaker 10 local frequencies aren't reporting anything, but there's there's atmospheric ionization.

Speaker 12 It could be tourists.

Speaker 10 Official visitors have a transponder.

Speaker 4 I'm not picking one up.

Speaker 20 It was a good night.

Speaker 10 Yes.

Speaker 10 Whoever they are, though, probably head for the horizon, but this is the more defensible position.

Speaker 20 I just

Speaker 12 want to be left alone.

Speaker 7 I know.

Speaker 12 Send out a wideband message.

Speaker 10 Broadcasting.

Speaker 12 Whoever you are, welcome to Earth. Let's speed this up.
You can find me at this signal. See you soon.

Speaker 24 I tried out several alluring poses on the bed, but um, then opted for completely covering my entire body in a huge comforter.

Speaker 24 What do you think?

Speaker 12 Thank you for a wonderful night, Deidra.

Speaker 24 What's wrong? Oh, God, is something happening? What is it now?

Speaker 12 Verge. I need you to get in the bathtub.

Speaker 24 What?

Speaker 12 The reason why I don't stay anywhere for long

Speaker 12 is because I'm.

Speaker 12 People hunt me.

Speaker 12 I'm a dangerous person, and your life is in danger.

Speaker 12 I tell you to get out of the house, but it's too late.

Speaker 24 What the fuck are you talking about?

Speaker 12 This was a mistake. This whole thing was a mistake.

Speaker 24 Okay, um, Virge, slow down for a minute. Tell me what's going on.

Speaker 14 There's no time.

Speaker 12 Virge?

Speaker 24 Fuck. Who was that?

Speaker 14 Get under the bed.

Speaker 22 What's the word?

Speaker 10 Science priests. Really?

Speaker 12 About time they got their act together.

Speaker 17 Where are they?

Speaker 10 Three of them on foot. Coming through the woods.

Speaker 12 What's a Vapian? Gotta do. To get laid in this world, Alden.

Speaker 12 Deploy a sensor dome. Let's get this over with.

Speaker 9 This is it.

Speaker 19 It's in this building. We'll never have another opportunity like this.
This is our time. What if it's a trap?

Speaker 19 Don't be ridiculous. It has never been this obvious about its location.
It has grown arrogant, lazy.

Speaker 19 It thinks the danger has passed, but it does not know that the temple of enlightenment never forgets. Yes, but why send us? What are you talking about?

Speaker 19 It was the cause of the collapse of our temple, the murdering of our predecessors. It is our most sought enemy, and to kill it, the 100 sends the three of us? We are being led into a trap.

Speaker 19 Or this is nothing at all. Where is your faith? The anomaly has sent us here.
Why would you deny its wisdom? You are speaking out of turn. You will be the first through the door.

Speaker 19 This is what your arrogance has bought you.

Speaker 19 Very well. Glory to the nth anomaly.
Glory to the nth anomaly.

Speaker 4 Yes, glory.

Speaker 26 Glory to the infinomales.

Speaker 14 Fucking assholes.

Speaker 19 It is injured. Go to the back of the building to prevent its escape.
We will both move up the tower for this. Glory! Glory!

Speaker 19 Whatever dark god you pray to, begin your prayers now.

Speaker 14 You know, I've never really understood you freaks.

Speaker 14 You right against the dangers of technology while using technology?

Speaker 14 What do you want exactly? You think you can get everyone to abandon technology and eat gruel in a temple somewhere? What then?

Speaker 14 What do you do when you've got no one to demonize?

Speaker 14 No one to be scared of.

Speaker 14 I think on that day,

Speaker 14 when you've finally beaten the universe into submission, you're all going to shit yourselves with fear.

Speaker 14 The dog who caught the car, and that's what they call it here on earth.

Speaker 14 Have we fully drunken the irony?

Speaker 14 It was technology that brought you here to kill me.

Speaker 14 Probably not.

Speaker 14 You're not big on irony.

Speaker 18 But I'll say this.

Speaker 14 You may may think that all this tech we use is evil, but I like it. It gives me freedom, gives me safety,

Speaker 10 it gives me a tangle that can imitate my voice.

Speaker 6 Oh, fuck!

Speaker 20 I'll give you one thing.

Speaker 12 Sometimes the old ways are impossible to improve on.

Speaker 7 Like a knife to the abdomen.

Speaker 12 No way technology can improve on that.

Speaker 10 One left, in the back.

Speaker 24 Trust you and me, sweetheart.

Speaker 24 Are you free of regret?

Speaker 12 Are you in a beautiful field full of flowers with your idiotic god?

Speaker 12 Oh, these are the last moments of your life, darling.

Speaker 12 I hope you feel the futility as the darkness creeps in.

Speaker 25 It's the only way to go.

Speaker 20 I promise I'll make it quick.

Speaker 25 Look at you,

Speaker 1 look at all the pain you cause.

Speaker 19 You're an abomination.

Speaker 25 I am

Speaker 18 what you

Speaker 17 made me

Speaker 20 Latus Veia.

Speaker 8 Verge andry lower thorax.

Speaker 10 What you've been shot.

Speaker 10 Oh,

Speaker 7 well

Speaker 23 shit.

Speaker 24 Oh my god.

Speaker 9 Deidre, Deidre, listen to me. Virge? Listen to me.

Speaker 16 Who is that?

Speaker 9 I'm on the coffee table.

Speaker 10 What?

Speaker 9 Deidre, I need you to listen to me.

Speaker 15 Who are you?

Speaker 9 Verge has been shot.

Speaker 24 Oh, my God.

Speaker 8 Verge!

Speaker 9 I need you to listen to me.

Speaker 24 The hospital is an hour away.

Speaker 4 The hospital won't help.

Speaker 9 I need you to listen to me.

Speaker 8 Are you listening to me?

Speaker 24 Who are you?

Speaker 9 I need you to think of me as a 911 operator right now.

Speaker 10 What do you mean?

Speaker 9 In 16 minutes, Verge is going to die.

Speaker 8 You can save their life, but you've got to listen to me.

Speaker 8 Okay.

Speaker 9 You have to get Verge to their room at the horizon.

Speaker 8 Pick me up. Put me in the pocket of your robe.
Then put Verge in your truck. You have to hurry.

Speaker 24 I can't lift them up.

Speaker 9 They are much lighter than an Earthling, their size.

Speaker 24 An Earthling? Deidre,

Speaker 9 do you want Verge to die?

Speaker 24 No.

Speaker 9 Then focus on that and nothing else. Focus on that.

Speaker 8 Nothing else.

Speaker 10 I will explain everything once they're safe.

Speaker 10 Deidre, move. Okay.

Speaker 24 What is it?

Speaker 9 It's a nanosurgeon.

Speaker 4 There are things in their bloodstream right now repairing the damage.

Speaker 24 Are they going to be okay?

Speaker 9 Yes, you saved their life.

Speaker 8 I told you I would tell you everything.

Speaker 24 I don't know if I want to know.

Speaker 9 That's understandable. I'm afraid there's one thing you can't avoid, though.

Speaker 9 What?

Speaker 9 For the nanosurgeons to operate at peak efficiency, there needs to be no interference from other technology.

Speaker 17 Okay.

Speaker 9 Verge wears a device that

Speaker 9 disguises them.

Speaker 11 It's called an earth suit.

Speaker 9 There's a bracelet on their left wrist with a yellow button.

Speaker 11 You need to deactivate it.

Speaker 24 Disguises them?

Speaker 22 What do they look like?

Speaker 13 Deidre, you just need to rip off the band-aid.

Speaker 9 Press the yellow button, please.

Speaker 9 Okay.

Speaker 9 Oh.

Speaker 26 My God.

Speaker 4 Uh, long time ago,

Speaker 9 your distant ancestors lived on a very warm and wet planet.

Speaker 9 It got to a point where walking on all fours wasn't working anymore because sometimes you have to keep your head above the water.

Speaker 9 So you started walking on two feet.

Speaker 9 And that simple lead led to

Speaker 9 the way you look right now.

Speaker 9 Virgil's planet was rocky and mountainous, so for them it was a complicated and high-tensile musculature,

Speaker 11 hollow bones to make them lighter while they climb,

Speaker 11 and

Speaker 4 more appendages.

Speaker 9 Two additional lesser arms further down the ribcage.

Speaker 9 Meant to cling to a cliff face while you find the next foothold.

Speaker 24 Why are they here?

Speaker 9 The same reason anyone is anywhere.

Speaker 9 Looking for a place to be.

Speaker 24 Why aren't they on their planet?

Speaker 9 Their planet doesn't exist anymore. It was destroyed.

Speaker 24 Destroyed? Yes.

Speaker 24 So that's why they wander around. Yes.

Speaker 23 Who are you?

Speaker 6 I'm not a who.

Speaker 4 I'm just a device.

Speaker 9 Not all that different from the phone you carry in your pocket.

Speaker 24 But I'm talking to you like a person.

Speaker 9 The technology is a bit more advanced.

Speaker 24 What happened at my house?

Speaker 9 They're called science priests.

Speaker 13 They come from a planet called Moog.

Speaker 24 Why were they trying to kill us?

Speaker 9 They weren't trying to kill you.

Speaker 8 The people of Moogsee Verge as an abomination.

Speaker 10 A freak.

Speaker 9 They pride themselves in eliminating people like Verge.

Speaker 24 Why?

Speaker 24 What did they do?

Speaker 9 I've noticed that you're a student of history.

Speaker 9 In this region of your planet, a law was passed in 1844. Can you tell me what it was?

Speaker 24 The Black Exclusion Law. Yes.

Speaker 9 A law stating that no one of African descent was allowed to live in this area.

Speaker 16 Yes.

Speaker 4 Why?

Speaker 9 You have amazing imaginations, you earthlings. The things you're able to dream up, it's a rarer trait than you think.

Speaker 9 You've imagined a great many things about worlds beyond your own.

Speaker 9 I must unfortunately report that much of what goes on above your head will be disappointingly familiar.

Speaker 24 I can't fucking take this anymore.

Speaker 9 Deidre, the sun is almost up.

Speaker 13 You've had a very traumatic evening.

Speaker 9 June has gotten some of your belongings from your house and has set you up in room 10.

Speaker 9 You need to try and get some rest.

Speaker 24 Jesus, I work in three hours.

Speaker 9 Frank has agreed to cover your shift at the sheep's eye, which will be a disaster, but on the plus side, it will be very entertaining.

Speaker 24 Do you have a name?

Speaker 24 Elden.

Speaker 24 Is Verch going to live?

Speaker 10 Yes.

Speaker 10 Thanks to you.

Speaker 24 Thank you for being honest with me.

Speaker 4 Of course.

Speaker 9 Yes, I know you're awake.

Speaker 20 You're right.

Speaker 18 This was a mistake.

Speaker 9 I can't believe I'm about to say this, but

Speaker 11 in fact,

Speaker 9 I was wrong.

Speaker 9 Those science priests would have tracked you down eventually, anyway. And when they did,

Speaker 9 you would have been alone.

Speaker 11 You weren't alone.

Speaker 11 So you lived.

Speaker 12 That thought should feel better than it does.

Speaker 12 I know.

Speaker 12 We need to find a new place to be for a while.

Speaker 9 As you wish,

Speaker 10 I'll connect to the Nav Matrix and start a unicorn search.

Speaker 10 It could take some time.

Speaker 10 Back to the black.

Speaker 10 out on the thin and night.

Speaker 10 There is a weapon beneath it urning.

Speaker 27 Way down in the dark and the deep,

Speaker 27 the shelliac sings in its key.

Speaker 4 A song full of hunger that calls to the wanderer.

Speaker 27 Oh, won't you come semi free?

Speaker 27 Lying beside you, you're sleeping peaceful. And you just said that you love me.

Speaker 27 And I close my eyes in a darkness that's blacker than night. And love, I'm so sorry.

Speaker 27 Why must you wake me? Why must you tempt me? Something is rising up from the empty.

Speaker 4 I'm losing control.

Speaker 4 And before I do,

Speaker 4 let me just say

Speaker 4 I loved you

Speaker 27 Way down in the dark and the deep,

Speaker 27 a shelliac sings in its keep

Speaker 4 a song full of hunger that calls to the wanderer.

Speaker 4 Won't you come set me

Speaker 25 free?

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