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Grain of Eternity
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00:06The thrusters are dead. We are getting sucked into the black hole. It's over.
00:11Hang in there. I'm booting up the backup power. Nothing can happen to the Gene Archive.
00:25There's no escape. Transfer all power to the core pod. Get ready to eject it.
00:59There's no escape.
01:18The hull. The gravity. How did you do that? What are you?
01:23Someone who refuses to accept this ending.
01:29What are you doing?
01:31To rewrite your ending.
01:49Sector 4?
01:51But this was three years ago.
01:55No.
01:57No.
02:08No.
02:09Oh, my God.
02:39Oh, my God.
03:00Evelyn, look at me. It's really you. You're alive. You're really alive. I thought I lost you forever.
03:06Lyra, what are you doing here?
03:08No, no, listen to me. We made it. You're alive. What happened to you?
03:15I will never let you die again.
03:23You didn't just destroy that thing. You reversed time.
03:26I'm... Who the hell are you?
03:37I'm asking you. What the hell are you?
03:44I'm the one giving you a choice. Keep that gun on me, and Jates dies in two minutes, fourteen seconds.
03:54Jace! No, he's at the seventh line.
04:00He's been ambushed. Save him now or watch him die.
04:16Jace!
04:25Jace!
04:27Jace! Look at me. Please stay with me.
04:30Lyra?
04:34Is it really...
04:38I saved him.
04:40But if you shed one tear for him, I will finish what those monsters started.
04:48The dark energy is spreading. We have to get him to the Sector 7 underground bunker. But he's too heavy!
04:56Lead the way.
05:03Target locked. Lyra, purge protocol activated.
05:22The pod's slowing it down. But only temporarily. We need a military-grade, quantum, battery. Otherwise he dies in two
05:29hours.
05:35That mech out's outside. Its target is you.
05:40You change the timeline. It'll be waiting at the armory.
05:44Then I'll kill it first.
05:53Don't ever touch me like that again.
05:55Mono-molecular wire.
05:59You'd already be in pieces.
06:10Blue first. Otherwise you trigger the alarm. Just like you did at Outpost 3.
06:16How do you know about Outpost 3? Nobody survive except me and Jake.
06:20Because I watched you die there. Over and over again.
06:34Intruder detected. Termination authorized.
06:57Golden blood what the hell are you take the battery be ready to move
07:28you're bleeding can you still walk move
07:33Laia the bunker shield is failing there's another reaper another one
07:40it's a trap fall back
07:45Jace doesn't have time for that I'm going through
08:03the shield is is breaking drop it we need cover run I'll buy you time I don't leave useful assets
08:10behind to die move
08:24Evelyn two minutes out open the gate
08:27Lyra the pod's crashing and there's something in the better
08:33I'm going to die
08:39I'm going to die
08:44I'm going to die
09:04they're getting in
09:11I'm going to die
09:12I'm going to die
09:31I'm going to die
09:41Plug it in.
09:57Erase.
10:10That's Arc 1.
10:19Lyra, this world is a comic book.
10:24A comic book? What are you talking about? Have you lost your mind? Who exactly are you?
10:30A reader. Someone who watched you die a billion times, Lyra. This is the first time I can actually touch
10:37you.
10:51Save the crazy talk. I need your firepower alive.
11:02Evelyn, what are you doing?
11:09Correcting an era, Lyra.
11:15You were supposed to die on Arc 1, sweetie.
11:20You're ruining the story.
11:23Shut up! Don't you dare use her voice!
11:50Get up! I don't have time to die here! And you're not dragging me down!
11:54Get up! I don't have time to die here! And you're not dragging me down!
12:06It's the Reaper's poison. You have 30 seconds before your heart stops.
12:15Then save me. Or I'll take you with me.
12:27My blood is the only cure. It'll make you faster, stronger. But it comes with a leash.
12:44Once you taste it, you belong to the script.
13:14The gift isn't free, Lyra.
13:17The gift isn't free, Lyra.
13:18Your pain stops, yours stops. My pain, your pain.
13:23Bad luck, Lyra. You don't get to throw me away anymore.
13:33What is this? A hallucination?
13:38No. Rendering failure. She's deleting this panel.
13:48Lyra. You were never supposed to see this.
13:52Broken pieces have to be recycled.
14:05Stop following the rules.
14:07In this world, the glitch is your weapon.
14:14You said he sees the most important plug-in, right?
14:29I knew it! You can't afford to let him die!
14:32If he's in pain, the whole world glitches!
14:39If this is just a play, then I'm walking off the stage.
15:00Now tell me. Who are you? No more reader bullshit.
15:05Give me a name I can actually understand.
15:16You can call me Aureol.
15:21Welcome to the real wasteland, Lyra.
15:46Welcome to the real wasteland, Lyra.
15:56Welcome to the real wasteland, Lyra.
15:58My hope!
16:08My help!
16:11My help!
16:13My help!
16:15My help!
16:16My help!
16:16My help!
16:25Damn it.
16:39Control your heartbeat.
16:41You're distracting me.
16:43Then cut it out, Lyra.
16:45Because as long as we're tethered,
16:47every time you touch yourself, I feel it.
16:51So tell me,
16:53how do you expect me to calm down?
17:02Pain is a great way to kill a distraction.
17:05Welcome to my world, Oriol.
17:14The agent is patching the system.
17:18She realized pure force can't kill us.
17:21So what's her plan B?
17:23Narrative correction.
17:25She's sending a reset switch.
17:44Anomaly detected.
17:46Target Lila.
17:47Initiating timeline reset.
18:01Touch her, and I'll incinerate your code.
18:10Target locked.
18:30Step away from him.
18:33Now.
18:35He's aim is the starter.
18:37He is the reset trigger.
18:40One touch.
18:43And you're dead again.
18:45That's perfect.
18:49Lila.
18:50Run.
18:52Run.
18:52I can't...
19:06Error. Unauthorized target.
19:11Don't look at him. Look at me.
19:18Laya! Take the shot! Don't let me do this!
19:38Jace!
19:40He's down. But the grid is tearing apart. We have to move.
20:02Drop it! You'll kill us both!
20:04Good. The virus can't run on dead hosts.
20:10See if a hard reboot works on God.
20:12Run!
20:31Jace tore his own arm off.
20:34He was crying.
20:36You said this is a comic book. A script.
20:39So his tears? Was it all just ink on a page?
20:43Is this a joke to you? Watching us bleed?
20:47Watching us scream while you readers just turn the page?
20:59Does this feel fake to you?
21:01In a billion timelines, you're the only one who didn't surrender.
21:05You fought. You fought. You bled. You killed.
21:09I didn't come here to watch a drawing, Lyra. I came for you.
21:22The mark! It burns!
21:35It's not the proxy. Something else found us.
21:39No!
21:55No!
22:01No!
22:02No!
22:03No!
22:27It hurts, Lila.
22:31Why do we always have to die?
22:34Every single time.
22:46Who are you? What are you?
22:48I am you, who died a billion times.
22:58Is this another trick? Another simulation?
23:03Answer me.
23:13So I'm supposed to fear this?
23:15My own pain.
23:20The system can wipe the files, but it can't erase the phantom pain.
23:26This is the weight, is the weight of your a billion deaths.
23:31In these billion deaths, you've been crying, haven't you?
23:40Give it back to me!
23:47Fatal error.
23:49Anomaly excludes threshold.
23:52Initiating physical purge.
24:12You didn't just destroy that thing, you reversed time!
24:15Tell the system. The purge is cancelled.
24:24Beautiful.
24:30You rewrote your own code.
24:33Can you walk? I'm going back to Sector 7.
24:36To kill Evelyn?
24:37No. To ask her who wrote this script.
24:43And then, I'm going to find the author.
24:57Keep up.
24:59The proxy is hardwired to the core.
25:01She won't talk.
25:02I'll make her.
25:25Unauthorized access.
25:34Who wrote this script?
25:35Give me a name.
25:44You want to find the author, Lyra?
25:46Ask the man behind you.
25:51Ask him who created your hell.
26:01You wrote this.
26:03You drew the Reapers.
26:05You scripted Evelyn to wear my mother's face.
26:08Lyra.
26:12Is it fun, Orion?
26:14Playing God with our lives.
26:16Does it turn you on to watch us bleed?
26:18Ten billion times.
26:19You sat up there flipping the pages while I was torn apart in the dark.
26:23And now you drop down here playing the fucking hero?
26:26To play the victim?
26:28I was the author.
26:30But I burned the script for you.
26:33I fell into this cage to be with you.
26:35You want to be with me.
26:37You want to feel what I feel.
26:41You want to feel what I feel.
26:49You played God with my life fine.
26:51From now on, I am God.
26:54As you wish.
26:56My God.
26:57Author privileges completely overvidered.
27:00Initiating protocol blank canvas.
27:02World Weish in progress.
27:04World Weish in progress.
27:09Protocol blank canvas.
27:10Initiated.
27:11Formatning Sector 7.
27:16Stand up.
27:26Show them what a God's weapon looks like, Orion.
27:29Kill them all.
27:34As you command.
27:56Use the pain.
28:09The physics engine is breaking.
28:12Gravity is about to flip.
28:19Then let's fall upwards.
28:43Get out of here.
28:53Sloppy. You let it touch you.
29:00Punish me later. Brace for impact.
29:15The system rewrit the core logic. It's trying to bury us in the sketch layer.
29:20A sketch is meant to be erased.
29:29Deploying Ultimate Anchor. Eradicate the anomalies.
29:38Targets locked.
30:06He is a dead node. End him.
30:10I don't need your permission to decide who gets to live.
30:23Wake up, Jace! Fight the code!
30:30We grew up in the Sector 4 ruins. Help me tear this out.
30:33If my life is a script...
30:38Then I choose how it ends!
30:40Jake!
30:41Jake!
30:45No!
31:08RhodesgeIST
31:09TAKE
31:30We have a tower to climb.
31:33Gravity's gone to hell. We have to jump through the debris.
31:42Then jump.
31:48Warning. Unauthorized heat approaching the core. Accelerating deletion.
32:09Hold on.
32:33It's hard code. Brute force won't dent this. It needs an administrator's signature.
32:38Then sign it.
32:53You have made a mess of my publication, Orion.
32:59You were the architect, Orion. You held the pen. Now look at you. A stray dog wearing a glitch's leash.
33:09How pathetic. It's better than sitting in the dark with you. Writing fake tears.
33:21So you're the one who wrote my billion deaths? Your writing is absolute garbage!
33:28Delete. You love her pain so much, Orion.
33:33Fine. But she won't remember you.
33:57Protocol memory wipe. Enjoy your new genre, Lyra. A perfect, painless utopia.
34:10Lyra.
34:12Lyra. Don't close your eyes.
34:24Good morning, sweetie. Breakfast in bed for the beautiful bride.
34:29Morning, Mom. I slept great. But my wrist feels weird.
34:36It looks perfect, Lyra. Not a single blemish.
34:39Yeah. It's just...
34:41It feels too light. Like I forgot to put on a watch or something.
34:45Look at you. Flawless. Jace is going to lose mind when he sees you.
34:57Flawless.
34:59Lyra. What are you doing? You're ruining the skin.
35:02I don't know. It just itches. It feels like something heavy is supposed to be there.
35:11What are you doing here?
35:28What are you doing here?
35:31You look perfect.
35:34Thanks. This place is intense.
35:52I have the patch. It'll vanish in one second.
35:58No marks. That's much better.
36:03I need some air. I'm walking back.
36:13Lyra.
36:15Why can't I?
36:30Why can't I?
36:43Lyra. You're zoning out on me.
36:54Lyra.
36:59Stand up. You're white as a shield.
37:02There's the pain in my chest. I can feel his pain.
37:06It's a hologram. An art, Proust. You're probably dehydrated.
37:11Stay put. I'll go grab some water.
37:13Who are you?
37:14Why? Why can I feel your pain?
37:18It's just a show. Go home.
37:26They're fine.
37:28Whoa!
37:33Oh!
37:37Oh!
37:39Oh!
37:57Oh, my God.
38:08Hey.
38:09You shouldn't be here.
38:14Who are you?
38:16It's just an immersive show, miss.
38:18A piece of art.
38:24Go home.
38:26The rain will ruin your clothes.
38:33You're lying.
38:40I'm not.
38:43Just go.
38:45Please.
38:54Please.
38:55Please.
39:00Priest, do you, Lyra, take this man in sickness and in health as long as you both shall live?
39:19The dress is stained.
39:21It's ruined.
39:25You're having another episode.
39:28Drink this.
39:30It will fix everything.
39:32What is that?
39:34Medicine.
39:36For your nerves.
39:38Stage two discharge initiating.
39:48This wedding.
39:49This dress.
39:50All of it.
39:51It's fake.
39:52He's real.
39:53That pain is real.
39:55You're confused.
39:57Drink the medicine.
39:58Let it pass.
40:01It's fake.
40:05This place.
40:07Lyra, do not walk out of this church.
40:09Watch me.
40:22Lyra, return to the ceremony.
40:33Citizen, please remain calm.
40:36Emotional anomalies are temporary.
40:40I'm sorry.
41:12This exceeds standard anomaly parameters.
41:18She is not supposed to remember how to fight.
41:23She just stopped caring about your perfect script.
41:28Final phase initiated.
41:30Execute.
42:12Security breach.
42:14Unauthorized entity within perimeter.
42:21Let go.
42:23Please.
42:34I was the author.
42:37Lyra!
42:45Lyra!
42:47You wrote me a billion deaths.
42:50And I witnessed every single one.
42:54Don't die. I'm not done with you yet.
42:57As you command, my God.
43:09You're bleeding.
43:11Don't talk.
43:16Anomaly restored.
43:18You put me in a box.
43:20You put him on a cross.
43:22Now I erase you both.
43:31Your mistake was keeping us both alive.
43:42Combat capability exceeds all parameters.
43:46Full suppression.
43:49Here's the only parameter.
44:01You wore my mother's face.
44:04She was a skin for the proxy.
44:06Nothing more.
44:09She was more real than you.
44:19There she is.
44:22We're not done.
44:42There's a hole in my page.
44:49He's burned his core for you.
44:51Jace burned his battery for you.
44:54Evelyn is in pieces because of you.
44:56And for what?
44:57If you're going to wipe me, get it over with.
44:59Wipe you?
44:59No.
45:00You I'm keeping.
45:02The author's pet gets a special ending.
45:17Well, shit.
45:29You tore a hole in his page.
45:31He can't undo that.
45:32Why isn't he chasing us?
45:35Because it's not his page anymore.
45:37It's yours.
45:39We're going down.
45:40Now.
45:57There's something down here.
46:01I see it.
46:03That's from the Ark.
46:04The gene bank you grabbed.
46:07It's real.
46:09That's where we're heading.
46:11That shouldn't be there.
46:32Cut the link.
46:35What?
46:36The wipe is hitting me.
46:39If we stay connected, it'll take you too.
46:43So what?
46:45So cut it loose.
46:47Take the gene bank.
46:49Get out.
46:51You got this far on your own.
46:54You don't need it now.
46:57You came into this page for me.
47:00You burned your core for me.
47:03So don't you dare tell me to leave you behind.
47:15All right.
47:17Together.
47:18Together.
47:28It's going to hold.
47:31I know.
47:37It stopped.
47:41The gene bank.
47:46It was never loaded into his system.
47:51I designed the Ark outside the comics database.
47:58He can't touch anything from there.
48:00Then we stay in the light.
48:05It's pulling the real world towards us.
48:07Using the gene bank as an anchor.
48:09How long?
48:11Longer than we have.
48:19That object is not in the database.
48:24Where did you get it?
48:26He's going to throw everything he has left.
48:29The whole system.
48:30Once that hits, the gene bank won't hold.
48:41You built this world.
48:43You know how to break it.
48:46I don't have a core anymore.
48:49You gave me your blood once.
48:51Now give me whatever you have left.
48:58It's not enough.
49:03Then we give it everything.
49:06That's not part of the story.
49:13He's not stopping.
49:17Neither are we.
49:21This isn't enough.
49:23Not even close.
49:24I don't have a core.
49:26I can't give you the kind of power that breaks a page.
49:29You built this world.
49:31You built the tether.
49:32You said it binds everything.
49:34So bind this.
49:36Not blood to blood.
49:38Power to power.
49:39If I push what's left of my blood into the tether.
49:42And you push your dark energy in from the other end at the same time.
49:46Or they make something new.
49:59Now you.
50:09That can't.
50:11That power doesn't.
50:18We're close.
50:23If I can't have this world.
50:26No one can.
50:29Page zero.
50:46It didn't work.
50:48Not yet.
50:53Take the gene bank.
50:55The green light can still get you through.
50:58Say that again.
51:05The crack is still there.
51:08I can't do this alone.
51:32Go.
51:34We go together.
51:37Hold on.
51:38Not letting go.
51:44Meow.
52:28Still staring at it.
52:30Third week on the list.
52:37I sketched this out before we even moved in.
52:43So either I made it all up, or it already happened.
52:48You're here. I'm here.
53:01The ARC-1 final transmission captured what scientists called an unidentified luminous event.
53:39The ARC-2 final transmission is heard.
53:47Say it
53:49My God
53:51Kiss me
54:17Book tour starts today
54:19I know
54:20You nervous?
54:23No
54:25No
54:41Is it true that you based Orion on someone real?
54:51Something like that
55:03You haven't signed mine
55:06What do you want me to write?
55:09You know
55:24Again
55:24What do you want me to write?
55:40You
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