What You Take With You

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Gabriel's Lab

[Octavia slowly wakes up]

Octavia [Groans]

Gabriel:Welcome back. Tell me what you remember.

Octavia:Um, nothing.

Gabriel:Nothing? Nothing at all? You followed

Diyoza into the Anomaly. Come on. Think. When you came out, you were running from something. What was it?

Octavia:I told you, I don't know.

Gabriel:I've been waiting 150 years. Maybe you need a little help.

[Gabriel walks to the center of the room and removes a mat. Gabriel scraps away some dirt to reveal a handle to a hatch. Gabriel opens it and takes out a box. Gabriel opens the box and pulls out a canister. Gabriel brings it to a table and ties a piece of fabric over his face. [Fabric whooshes]]

Octavia:What is that?

Gabriel:Red Sun Toxin, highly concentrated. Stay back.

Octavia:That's the same stuff we saw in the air on the way to the Anomaly.

Gabriel:Good. You were paying attention. This will be much more intense than that. It's amazing stuff, really. Produced deep in the ground. It's given off by trees. It drives every living creature in Sanctum mad. They kill themselves, and the Mood feed on their corpses. Heh. Josephine theorized that's why life here never evolved past Reptile Phase. Humans weren't supposed to come, but we did. And as we do, we made improvements. Trust me, this will help you remember.

Octavia:What if there's nothing to remember? I was only gone for a few seconds.

Gabriel:Right. And yet you came back healed. Your hair is clean, Octavia, maybe even longer. You were running toward me instead of away as if - I don't know - someone or something was chasing you. Look, listen to me, until tonight, no one has ever come out of the Anomaly, ok? No one. Now, I believe you were gone for much longer than just a few seconds and that you came back for a reason. I want to know where you went and why you returned. Why don't you?

Octavia:Have you ever done this?

Gabriel:A long, long time ago. Russell and I used it to find out whether any trace of a host's mind remained after resurrection. The answer was no. Instead, it unlocked parts of our own minds, things we'd hidden from ourselves, answers to what our greater purpose was. His was to turn us into Gods. Mine was to make sure that he couldn't.

Octavia:What's mine?

Gabriel:Maybe we'll find that out, too. Come on.

[Gabriel has prepared a syringe for Octavia filled with Red Sun Toxin, he tries to grab her arm to inject it in her. Octavia pulls away]

Gabriel [Sighs] You can trust me. I'll be monitoring you the whole time, acting as your guide, what we call an Adjuster.

[Gabriel holds Octavia's arm and injects her]

Gabriel:Once you're under, you'll want to follow signs of the Anomaly.

Octavia:Signs? What signs?

[Octavia turns around and Gabriel is gone]

Octavia:Gabriel?

Voice [Whispering] Octavia.

[Octavia turns, there is a box glowing green]

Octavia:Now that's a sign.

[Overlapping voices] [Sounds of Man screaming] [A box glowing red starts to shake behind Octavia]

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