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Speaker 2: What where am I back in Kansas? Dorothy?
Speaker 3: Is it time for breakfast?
Speaker 2: I'm not glad breakfast in an hour?
Speaker 3: What do I do till then?
Speaker 2: How should I know?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: My god, your names? You'll b too much?
Speaker 3: Well, they left the door open. So many cells. I
Speaker 3: didn't even think about the showers. I wonder where this goes?
Speaker 4: And what do we have here?
Speaker 5: Weight room, TV room, library? Well, this doesn't seem so confusing,
Speaker 5: art room, Another room?
Speaker 3: This one's locked.
Speaker 6: Locked?
Speaker 3: Weight room again?
Speaker 5: Wait, how did I Where did I come in from?
Speaker 3: You gotta be kidding me? Where's the good?
Speaker 4: Damn?
Speaker 6: Oh Jesus Christ, welcome. Sorry, I didn't mean to stalk
Speaker 6: at you. Can I help you?
Speaker 5: I am lost?
Speaker 6: Where are you trying to go?
Speaker 3: I don't know?
Speaker 2: Then?
Speaker 6: How could you be lost? You're the priest in so
Speaker 6: far that labels are important to you. Here they call
Speaker 6: me the chaplain.
Speaker 3: Well that's what they call priests in prison.
Speaker 6: Hospitals too, right, right right?
Speaker 3: I almost forgot the party line. We never say the
Speaker 3: P word around here. Just testing you. So you are
Speaker 3: also insisting to me that this is not some kind
Speaker 3: of fucked up jail.
Speaker 6: I was playing yes and yes, and hospitals, schools, labor unions, militaries,
Speaker 6: chaplains can be found in many places.
Speaker 3: Well, what do you call this place?
Speaker 2: The chapel?
Speaker 3: So what do you want from me?
Speaker 6: Exactly as I remember you came to me. Is there
Speaker 6: something on your mind?
Speaker 3: Why do I get the impression that you are just
Speaker 3: another prison spy?
Speaker 6: Maybe because everything that has happened to you recently has
Speaker 6: been destabilizing, and you've been forced in so many one
Speaker 6: sided conversations in air quotes where every question comes loaded
Speaker 6: with ulterior motives that you've been left wondering who, if anyone,
Speaker 6: you can trust.
Speaker 2: That's just a guess.
Speaker 3: It's a good guess. So wait, are you saying that
Speaker 3: you're the one person in this whole god forsaken place
Speaker 3: that isn't trying to work one over on me? That
Speaker 3: you're not going to try to convert me and brainwash
Speaker 3: me and interrogate me. And I just happen to stumble
Speaker 3: through your door.
Speaker 6: I leave it to you to make up your own
Speaker 6: mind about that and whether you really think that God
Speaker 6: has forsaken this place. But I will say there is
Speaker 6: no obligation here. If you'd like the space to yourself,
Speaker 6: I can go. But if you'd like to talk, I'm
Speaker 6: here for that too.
Speaker 3: I'm not supposed to be here. How do you know
Speaker 3: I'm innocent?
Speaker 2: Any of us truly?
Speaker 5: In Oh?
Speaker 3: Whatever? You know that's not what I meant. I'm saying
Speaker 3: I did not commit any crime, and even if I had,
Speaker 3: how would I know? Since not a single goddamn person
Speaker 3: will tell me what I am accused of. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: I didn't mean to swear in the chapel.
Speaker 6: You wouldn't be the first, but you being here it
Speaker 6: means more than you think. You are not accused. You
Speaker 6: have been convicted. Ah shit, I'm sorry to be the
Speaker 6: one to make that clear.
Speaker 3: No, No, it's just do you know what time it is?
Speaker 6: My watch has a minute plus six.
Speaker 3: I'm late for a thing, So.
Speaker 6: We can do this anytime you like.
Speaker 4: I'll be here right bye.
Speaker 6: Peace be with you, and also with you.
Speaker 3: Rip Si, you're can I have back cut?
Speaker 7: Really?
Speaker 2: She's new here. Listen, follow right behind me. Don't take anything.
Speaker 2: I don't take and leave when I leave.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it, but I think I can handle a
Speaker 3: lunch line. Hey, listen, you ever see anyone outside their
Speaker 3: rooms after lights out?
Speaker 2: You mean besides the guards.
Speaker 3: In the middle of the night, some blonde woman walked
Speaker 3: right up to my cell. She was barefoot and singing,
Speaker 3: singing out loud. I realized that sounds.
Speaker 2: Crazy, doubtful to be the craziest thing I hear today.
Speaker 3: It felt like a dream, but I'm sure it was real.
Speaker 2: It's a difference. You want bread?
Speaker 3: Is it?
Speaker 6: Okay?
Speaker 2: It's food? Caught you wine? I we'll see.
Speaker 3: The hell was that?
Speaker 2: They were calling you my fish?
Speaker 3: What I am not your?
Speaker 4: What is this fish? It's always fish, any particular kind.
Speaker 4: Ain't got all day frip.
Speaker 2: That's all we need. Let's scoop.
Speaker 8: But what about the rest of the food?
Speaker 2: That up there? We call that the special?
Speaker 3: What's in it?
Speaker 2: Nothing? You want? Hey, Hypna?
Speaker 4: How much some much struck?
Speaker 7: Are you?
Speaker 4: Honey?
Speaker 8: Always?
Speaker 2: This here is shaky, Pete, Please to meet you?
Speaker 9: Darn it?
Speaker 2: That draft and our meditating friend here is CALLI.
Speaker 8: And six CALLI, yes, please to meet you. Forgive me.
Speaker 8: I have to keep my eyes closed while I count huh.
Speaker 2: You'll see. And lastly, Galina, do.
Speaker 4: Not call me that young frip. You know well exactly
Speaker 4: who I am.
Speaker 2: Fine, nemo, old timer's this, here's cy let's.
Speaker 8: See it, you dear, you still smell it outside? What
Speaker 8: time is it out there?
Speaker 3: I mean six thirty?
Speaker 4: Maybe?
Speaker 3: Are her eyes always closed?
Speaker 2: I've never seen them open.
Speaker 8: It's how they get you, It's how they got pat.
Speaker 8: I have a open my papers and no, no, you
Speaker 8: know what I mean outside? What year is it out there?
Speaker 2: Ignore her? Kelly's gone off her? Rugger?
Speaker 3: What year do you think it is?
Speaker 8: I said, don't noh, now where was I nine hundred
Speaker 8: ninety nine million nine?
Speaker 9: Can that want to help me get my spools here?
Speaker 3: Let me six stick too? I imagine you can lose
Speaker 3: track of time in a place like this.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's no use. Once you get in.
Speaker 9: It doesn't matter at that time. Hey, well, he don't
Speaker 9: get ended of a companion, It gets into us.
Speaker 3: So this is the old Timers club, older than you know, mortal.
Speaker 4: We four may be the only people here with a
Speaker 4: full awareness of reality. I see for steered you astray
Speaker 4: from the special capital effort, My lad.
Speaker 3: Well known, what are you twenty years old.
Speaker 4: It's an interesting question, my fish, and I'm afraid the
Speaker 4: answers are not as simple as we would all hope
Speaker 4: them to be. See our friend Peter there, Peter, Peter,
Speaker 4: how old are you?
Speaker 9: Well, that's easy. When I at my where I was nineteen,
Speaker 9: I was nineteen when I got here at twenty five,
Speaker 9: I think I'm the newest one who I was.
Speaker 8: By my count, Peter is somewhere between ninety five and
Speaker 8: thirty two years old. You see, I'm always counting.
Speaker 2: Heah, we know, head mathematician of the Oldheimers.
Speaker 3: So wait, what is this old timers club? Exactly like
Speaker 3: you've been here? The longest.
Speaker 8: Common misconception. No, I'm afraid, and I don't mean afraid.
Speaker 8: You understand there are many older than us, which is
Speaker 8: the ones who remember the old time. You'll see time
Speaker 8: is different here. It doesn't change. Of course, when you're
Speaker 8: in the thick of it, it feels like nothing really changes,
Speaker 8: doesn't it. When I was young, in the before, I
Speaker 8: was a book one, a homely little thing with a
Speaker 8: job in the university basement. While the other girls made
Speaker 8: up their faces and to green dances, I coorded kafka
Speaker 8: and servants, and tones so old they had no authors
Speaker 8: at all. Just once, deep into the evening, I found
Speaker 8: one book that lacked a title, altogether, bound in leather,
Speaker 8: stained with time, with page corners sharp as teeth. Took
Speaker 8: care to avoid touching those edges at first. As I
Speaker 8: delved into its pages, time slipped. You could say, I
Speaker 8: realized what I was reading was no exercise in settire,
Speaker 8: nor some obscure work of fraudulent religion, nor some indulgent
Speaker 8: flight of fancy. It was a set of instructions, a manual,
Speaker 8: you could call it. It was, so far as I
Speaker 8: could tell, a sort of a guide to reality, the
Speaker 8: collection of desires, a directory to the powers capable of
Speaker 8: manifesting those desires.
Speaker 4: I'd say.
Speaker 8: There are more than nine billion names of God, each
Speaker 8: with powers all their own. To know these names entire
Speaker 8: would be to court meanness. Instead, the curious student of
Speaker 8: the arts needs only meditate on the actions, the mechanisms
Speaker 8: of these sacred sounds all they can achieve. Soon I
Speaker 8: wasn't reading the book so much as hearing it. It
Speaker 8: spoke to me, guided my hand, it is me what
Speaker 8: I wanted. Normally, I could give a thousand different answers
Speaker 8: to that Questian. But this his voice, it already knew,
Speaker 8: it saw into me.
Speaker 4: I could not lie.
Speaker 8: I hated those girls, the ones with all the suitors,
Speaker 8: the ones in the headlines the book. Knew why I
Speaker 8: want to be one of them. I want to be
Speaker 8: a star. When the book closed, it took my blood.
Speaker 8: Drink it up like water soaking into a dessert. I
Speaker 8: heard it. I know it wasn't a language eye or
Speaker 8: any person living could speak, but somehow I understood it.
Speaker 8: You will have you to say, come to us when
Speaker 8: the time arrives. Only ass that you close your eyes
Speaker 8: and glish. I work the next day, saw the reach
Speaker 8: of scars on the tips of my fingers, deep as
Speaker 8: a dog bite, and I chose to believe. I quit
Speaker 8: my job at the university and found the first repertory
Speaker 8: that would take me. I was going to be the
Speaker 8: talk of the vaudeville stages from Kansas City all the
Speaker 8: way to New York. I was going to be a star.
Speaker 4: I knew it.
Speaker 7: Thank you, Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Now we'll have
Speaker 7: a brief intermission so the ladies can take a powder
Speaker 7: stick around and avail yourself with the best spirits in
Speaker 7: camp jack City.
Speaker 8: Well, boss, what's it look like out there?
Speaker 6: Just horrid?
Speaker 2: Edith?
Speaker 7: You're singing flat this attire?
Speaker 2: Janus?
Speaker 7: Then makeup? Are you additioning to be a clown? Now?
Speaker 8: What about me?
Speaker 2: You calliope?
Speaker 7: I've seen cripples with better choreography. Listen you don't. It's one, two,
Speaker 7: one two left leg, right leg repeat? Pearl wants lift
Speaker 7: skirt repeat?
Speaker 2: Can you count?
Speaker 4: I can?
Speaker 8: I'm sorry, sir, of course I can't.
Speaker 7: Can you How high can you count?
Speaker 2: Can you count?
Speaker 9: Two?
Speaker 7: It's the number after one? Just close your eyes, close
Speaker 7: some damn it. Get in that corner. Count to a
Speaker 7: billion for all I care.
Speaker 2: You're fired?
Speaker 4: What could I do?
Speaker 8: I walked to the corner like a scolded child. I
Speaker 8: close my eyes, I counted. I felt so foolish, humiliated.
Speaker 8: Magic of all things?
Speaker 4: Five?
Speaker 8: How long to be far away? For all of this
Speaker 8: to disappear?
Speaker 9: Seventh?
Speaker 8: And in my mind the book answered, no, you have returned.
Speaker 8: You granted? They willy.
Speaker 3: That's the whole place burned down.
Speaker 8: Two hundred and seventy nine people gone, just like that.
Speaker 8: How do you say it's all a misunderstanding. I didn't
Speaker 8: want everyone to die that wasn't my desire. I wanted
Speaker 8: to be famous. I am going to be famous. Hey
Speaker 8: will come for me and set me free, and I'll
Speaker 8: be a star.
Speaker 9: Who is he?
Speaker 10: Why?
Speaker 4: Satan? Of course? Who else?
Speaker 9: Um?
Speaker 2: Don't ask me, you'll say.
Speaker 8: I'll talk to him again and he'll set everything straight.
Speaker 8: All I have to do is keep my eyes closed
Speaker 8: and I stay in the wish the open eyes. Now
Speaker 8: whatever I see will be reality. This is only a moment. You,
Speaker 8: all of you are nothing but figments of my imagination.
Speaker 8: I will remember practice each step of the dance in
Speaker 8: my head. Maybe if you're nice, I'll thank you on
Speaker 8: stage when he returns and frees me.
Speaker 2: Why did I tell you crazy?
Speaker 8: This is just a temporary sit back, mind you. Once
Speaker 8: I get the word, I'll open my eyes and I'll
Speaker 8: be on Broadway. It's crucial that I don't forget that.
Speaker 8: And that's why I don'pe bar taking.
Speaker 3: The special the special again? Okay, what are you saying?
Speaker 3: It's some kind of mnesia potion.
Speaker 9: Oh, I don't think we should talk about it. It's
Speaker 9: a secret. You can get into trouble for telling secrets.
Speaker 9: That's how I got here. If I forget how it happened.
Speaker 9: I'll be like all the rest, you won't believe it.
Speaker 9: But once upon a time I was a steady man, voice, hands,
Speaker 9: heart and all I sang the old song, and the
Speaker 9: earth sang back five degrees north, six degrees.
Speaker 6: I was what you call a.
Speaker 9: Doodle bug, the dowser, the volume man. It's an ancient vocation.
Speaker 9: Few members my family had it every generation. The others
Speaker 9: went mad.
Speaker 4: Do you hear it? Hear it?
Speaker 10: You?
Speaker 4: It's coming from the ground.
Speaker 9: And I remember how it felt, you know, even out
Speaker 9: in the dust bowld days, I could walk along the
Speaker 9: thirsting calichi of the desert and feel the vibrations you
Speaker 9: call them, the movements of precious things under the horrid
Speaker 9: skin of dessert, like blood flowing through a vein, or
Speaker 9: enormous heart beating waiting to raise its hand and greet
Speaker 9: me in the night.
Speaker 7: Ah.
Speaker 9: A lot of folks didn't believe in the art. They
Speaker 9: called me a flim flammer, snake, oil sailsman, a carn artist.
Speaker 9: Till they could desperate, hungry, hopeless. You could walk into
Speaker 9: a town in fields loost of it. You could see
Speaker 9: the grief they wanted to weep, but there was no water.
Speaker 2: To spare.
Speaker 8: We can't go on like this.
Speaker 2: There's no crop, there's no far.
Speaker 8: We'll have to move like everyone else where, there's nowhere
Speaker 8: to go.
Speaker 7: Oh, pleas, sir, bless your hallelujah. You well praise me.
Speaker 7: You are our salvation.
Speaker 9: There was a murderous drought all around the land back then.
Speaker 9: I must have traveled clear across the Great Southwest, finding
Speaker 9: what little water remained. Did I charge for all this?
Speaker 2: Sure?
Speaker 9: It was my livelihood, But I was honest. And you
Speaker 9: can't find what's not there. I'm sorry, there's nothing here.
Speaker 9: Even the folks who believe in the ark, well, my,
Speaker 9: most of them don't understand the truth of it. First
Speaker 9: thousand ain't just for while. If I get the right
Speaker 9: things together, I can divine for don anything lost, treasure, lost, people.
Speaker 9: I can find what's forgotten.
Speaker 4: We thought we'd lost.
Speaker 10: You.
Speaker 9: Second, a power like this, it's it's not about taking it.
Speaker 9: It's a trade, a covenant. For everything I douse, the
Speaker 9: land demands something in return, a balance, like watching a
Speaker 9: pendulum swing. I'd save a dying ranch with a new well.
Speaker 6: We later cattle would disappear.
Speaker 9: I'd find a child lost in the cliffs and cholera
Speaker 9: would sweep the town. Every miracle has a price, and
Speaker 9: some are more expensive than others.
Speaker 4: Old man Gray foul.
Speaker 9: So I'd learned to keep moving, never born, a few
Speaker 9: days in one place, getting on still I delivered. People
Speaker 9: knew I was the real McCoy, an actual water man.
Speaker 9: Wood spread far and wide somewhere out in Arizona.
Speaker 2: I got the letter, but.
Speaker 3: It's all I have.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, man, I am This year is for you.
Speaker 9: I don't know how they found me. I should have
Speaker 9: known right then something was wrong, but I was on
Speaker 9: the run. I just doodled bug the van of gold
Speaker 9: for a nearby prospector, and I knew there'd be hell
Speaker 9: to pay. Asking Earth for that much gold, it sets
Speaker 9: a high price. It would be a fire or a plague.
Speaker 9: I could feel the vibrations of an echoing from the
Speaker 9: future back to the present, calling the account's due. I
Speaker 9: needed to be long gone before it hit, and this
Speaker 9: letter coming at the exact moment I needed in most
Speaker 9: a new job far away by the coast. Train fair
Speaker 9: included first class. What could I do? I left.
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 9: I dousd from anything in my time, People, treasure water,
Speaker 9: most of all, it's the safest trade to make. But
Speaker 9: when I got here, they set me on something different.
Speaker 9: I'm not sure I understand.
Speaker 4: Find the bottom, that's all we're cleared to tell you.
Speaker 9: Well, what am I looking for?
Speaker 7: Management says, you'll know it when you find it.
Speaker 2: You want to get paid, right, And.
Speaker 3: That was it.
Speaker 9: I took out my rod, I sang my songs. I
Speaker 9: stretched my mind beneath up close. It's like putting your
Speaker 9: hand in water. Only this wasn't a this whatever this is,
Speaker 9: it was an ocean. It reached up from the abyss
Speaker 9: of vibration, grabbed hold and put itself inside me.
Speaker 7: He's got it. He's got it, your fools, he's having
Speaker 7: a seizure.
Speaker 10: It's gone it.
Speaker 9: Lock it down, it locker, It's still here. It's in me.
Speaker 6: Easy, pete, easy, now it's awake.
Speaker 9: Now, a long way beneath, but awake. I can feel it.
Speaker 8: It's coming for us, your friends, we gotta get out.
Speaker 8: Set Peter.
Speaker 4: Don't let him worry you, young lady. He tells us
Speaker 4: a similar yarn at least once a fortnight. I imagine
Speaker 4: it to be some lunatic association with the cycles of
Speaker 4: the moon.
Speaker 3: You know, you seem to be the least crazy person
Speaker 3: I've met here, No offense, frip.
Speaker 4: Just wait, you are both astute and correct, Miss just Cy,
Speaker 4: will do h Clever names do have power, do they not?
Speaker 4: Clever sigh?
Speaker 8: We could call you.
Speaker 3: I won't be here long enough to have a nickname,
Speaker 3: so just sigh. We'll do well, then, just sygh.
Speaker 4: Allow me to give you a truth of this place.
Speaker 4: I have traveled these halls longer than most. Our budding
Speaker 4: starlet Calliope is correct. One such as you would be
Speaker 4: best advised to stay off menu in another life. This
Speaker 4: small golgatha of bones and guts was any number of
Speaker 4: fish swimming free without a care in the world, just
Speaker 4: like you. Hey, watch it gross. Did you know most
Speaker 4: mortals believe fish have no memory. It assuages them. I
Speaker 4: think to believe memory does not exist. But I assure
Speaker 4: you all things have memory, fish, people, places as well,
Speaker 4: and the pen struggles with that issue even tonight.
Speaker 3: Tonight, it's morning, this is breakfast. M hm.
Speaker 4: When was the last time you saw the sunlight the moonlight?
Speaker 4: Simple sigh? I again assure you it is later than
Speaker 4: you think. Eat, drink, be merry. Sometime soon you may
Speaker 4: wish to take the waters of leafy on your own accord.
Speaker 2: She's not taking the special Galina.
Speaker 3: Wait are we still talking about this later?
Speaker 2: Galina? Leave her out of your games. We're not having
Speaker 2: another caval kaval.
Speaker 4: Should you choose to speak with me directly, young FRep,
Speaker 4: you will say my name you more than most remember.
Speaker 3: Is someone gonna tell me what the fuck is going
Speaker 3: on here?
Speaker 2: Demo? Don't do it? Please?
Speaker 4: I am more than this fragile shell you see before.
Speaker 4: You like yourself, like anyone, I find myself caught between
Speaker 4: one place and the next. I the daughter of Titans,
Speaker 4: the goddess of memory Nemosny your people called me. I
Speaker 4: have witnessed all that has passed, or passing or yet
Speaker 4: to come. Imbrood by Zeus. I beget the nine amuses,
Speaker 4: one for each phase of what you call the moon,
Speaker 4: and one more a secret I tell no man, for
Speaker 4: a secret kept by one is the most powerful of arts.
Speaker 2: What she's the well god of memory, she thinks, and
Speaker 2: now the most unsuccessful escape artists in.
Speaker 4: The pen, True Shane, I am young Si, trapped in
Speaker 4: this mortal vessel, in perversion of my being, all to
Speaker 4: protect this place you call the pen. I am in
Speaker 4: a prison within a prison. And while this vessel constrains
Speaker 4: my powers, it does not prevent me from my thoughts.
Speaker 4: I was a journalist, a real one, working in the field,
Speaker 4: writing about conflict at the time. My editor wanted me
Speaker 4: covering Vietnam, but I was more interested in Cyprus.
Speaker 7: For any who are now just joining the program, we
Speaker 7: can confirm the nations of Turkey and Greece are at
Speaker 7: war on the shores of Cypress. Turkis forces invaded early
Speaker 7: this morning following a long dispute over the nationality of
Speaker 7: the island. A word before we continue. Some of the
Speaker 7: footage you're about to see is disturbing.
Speaker 4: The West chose Greece in the invasion. This wasn't a
Speaker 4: loud declaration, but it was certain they'd already run the numbers,
Speaker 4: called the banking cartels, and chosen their investment. The Cold
Speaker 4: War loomed, and every war was a war of economics,
Speaker 4: real politic, they called it. Landing on the shores of Pentomile,
Speaker 4: the chaos was evident, the horror palpable, and a press
Speaker 4: pass doesn't save you from a mortar shell. Minutes into
Speaker 4: our excursion, I watched my photographer take a bullet to
Speaker 4: the got another to the face so fast I realized
Speaker 4: he didn't have time to scream. So I ran for
Speaker 4: how long I could not say. Looking back, I wonder
Speaker 4: if something guided me through the forest. I didn't recognize
Speaker 4: the ruins at first. They were overgrown, ringed by an
Speaker 4: old chain link fence. Signs read keep out, some in Greek,
Speaker 4: others in Turkish. I could still hear the artillery in
Speaker 4: the distance, so I jumped the fence. I entered the ruins. Ah,
Speaker 4: if I could only find a bolt hole, a little
Speaker 4: place to stay unseen for a few hours, maybe I
Speaker 4: could spend the night here, I told myself. Then get
Speaker 4: out to nearby towns, find a telex, and tell the story.
Speaker 4: Choked beneath the underbrush, I could see old stones carved
Speaker 4: with a l which I didn't recognize. I entered a
Speaker 4: rough hewn doorway, limped down cracked stone steps, and emerged
Speaker 4: in a huge hall underground, where I came face to
Speaker 4: face with a statue holy a female figure robed, hands
Speaker 4: spread as if in invitation warning. I wasn't sure, but
Speaker 4: I knew this was a temple and it had to
Speaker 4: be ancient. The statue loomed over me. I found myself
Speaker 4: lost in her fearsome visage. I didn't hear them coming
Speaker 4: behind me. The bullet caught me in the hip, brought
Speaker 4: me to my knees, bleeding out in the dirt. I
Speaker 4: looked up at the statue, and for the first time
Speaker 4: in my life, I prayed, Dear God, God's anyone, Please.
Speaker 8: Please don't let it end like this. People need to
Speaker 8: know to remember.
Speaker 4: Oh, I'll do anything, Please just help.
Speaker 9: Me.
Speaker 8: And as I was on the verge of death, something answered.
Speaker 10: It took me.
Speaker 4: I felt as though my body was a car and
Speaker 4: I had been pushed into the back seat. When I
Speaker 4: tried to scream, my voice was no longer my own.
Speaker 10: And so the Galina vessel found me. Pulled from depths
Speaker 10: beyond this mortal world, summoned afler untold ages by a
Speaker 10: new disciple, I rose with great wrath to seek my revenge.
Speaker 8: We've got it.
Speaker 3: Contact, repeat contact.
Speaker 1: The entity has entered the subject, doesn't matter if.
Speaker 8: The vessel bleeds out, Roll it over, block up that wound.
Speaker 4: No, God, damn it, chest compressions.
Speaker 8: Never mind that fifty secs of domestic before the move
Speaker 8: and knock her out.
Speaker 9: No, the idiot, don't shoot her quick the spell.
Speaker 10: By the waters of Lethy, we bind thee.
Speaker 4: By the halls of Hades, we bind thee.
Speaker 2: By the real Zeus, we bind thee.
Speaker 10: By the.
Speaker 4: We bind thee.
Speaker 3: So it was the pen they kidnapped you, too.
Speaker 4: Much worse than that, dear sigh. Just as the gods
Speaker 4: long ago imprisoned me in the temple, I am bound
Speaker 4: now to this body. They took also from the sacred
Speaker 4: waters of Lethy, the river of forgetfulness. That, just sigh,
Speaker 4: is the special They control, the source, the well spring
Speaker 4: at the bottom of my old prison. Each morning they
Speaker 4: slip a small amount into our food, removing pieces of
Speaker 4: our memories, one spoonful at a time, and it does
Speaker 4: taste wonderful, I assure you, consuming your own memories. Just
Speaker 4: look at the faces around this room, that vague, glassy,
Speaker 4: lost expression in their eyes. They are docile, simple to control.
Speaker 3: There's a last one closing down God me lollables, Look,
Speaker 3: Lady Nemo, Gillina whatever. I'm not supposed to be here.
Speaker 3: I need to get out.
Speaker 4: I know, just sigh. I know you need to escape,
Speaker 4: and I can help you. Take this vial. It contains
Speaker 4: a portion of my power and can unlock almost any barrier,
Speaker 4: be it a memory or a door. All I ask is,
Speaker 4: should you reach beyond these walls? You pour half into
Speaker 4: the sea. How when Kelly reaches a billion, Peter drops
Speaker 4: his spoon and ceases.
Speaker 11: The cards will be distracted. You will stand with your
Speaker 11: train and walk toward the chow line. When you reach it,
Speaker 11: you will run young side, just as Galina did. Jump
Speaker 11: the line, go straight back into the left.
Speaker 8: Three times.
Speaker 4: You will see a white door. Throw part of this
Speaker 4: water against it, then go through it.
Speaker 8: Do you understand? Well, you're not me one billion?
Speaker 9: It's hair, it's here, he's coy.
Speaker 3: Oh fuck fuck o fuck left left left, Oh god,
Speaker 3: it's real ship the Bible? Okay, here goes?
Speaker 8: What on earth is this the ocean? It's okay, child,
Speaker 8: Everyone tries it, at least once.
Speaker 4: Just take a sip of dish.
Speaker 8: Try to forget. Don't why don't fit In time, you
Speaker 8: will forget all about it.
Speaker 9: Wait?
Speaker 7: Wait?
Speaker 2: Why am I on the floor?
Speaker 8: Good enough? Ready?
Speaker 3: Get what's happening?
Speaker 4: Where are you taking me?
Speaker 2: What the dungeon?
Speaker 8: Oh yea.
Speaker 9: High high.
Speaker 1: Thirteen Days of Halloween Pennance starring Natalie Morales, Episode two, Socialization,
Speaker 1: written by Ben Bolan and Alexander Williams. Editing and sound
Speaker 1: design by Josh Thain, featuring the voices of Morgan Brown,
Speaker 1: Wilbur Fitzgerald, Rachel Rosenbloom, Joseph Whipp, Laura Shine, Miguel Perez,
Speaker 1: Chris j Alex, Wayne Bastrup, Sonny Bowling, Lauren Vogelbaum, Ben Bohlan,
Speaker 1: Blair Chandler, Alex Bowling, Jay Jones, and Raphael Corkill. Directed
Speaker 1: by Alexander Williams. Executive producers Aaron Mankey, Noah Feinberg, Chris Dicky,
Speaker 1: Matt Frederick and Alexander Williams. Supervising producers Trevor Young and
Speaker 1: Josh Thain. Producers Jesse funk Rima Ilkali, Noami Griffin, Chandler Mays,
Speaker 1: and Casby Bias. Script editing by Lauren Vogelbaum, Story consultants
Speaker 1: Ben Bolan and Matthew Riddle. Casting by Sunday Bowling CSA
Speaker 1: and Meg Mormon CSA, Production coordinator Wayna Calderon, Production assistants
Speaker 1: Jenna Johnson and Winona Lowe. Theme music by Rose Azerti
Speaker 1: with vocals by Anna Hummler, recorded at This Is Sound
Speaker 1: Design Studios in Burbank, California, engineered by Ross Aerono, special
Speaker 1: thanks to Romelia Osorio, Nathan Rule, Glenn Nishida, and Rob Mosca.
Speaker 1: Thirteen Days of Halloween was created by Matt Frederick and
Speaker 1: Alexander Williams and is a production of iHeart Podcasts, Blumhouse
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Speaker 1: Happy Halloween.