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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.
00:44I'll be right back.
01:18The Hull. The Gravity. How did you do that? What are you?
01:23Someone who refuses to accept this ending.
01:30What are you doing?
01:31To rewrite your ending.
01:50Sector 4? But this was three years ago.
02:08Sector 4?
02:09Sector 5?
02:18Sector 5.
02:21Let's go.
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?
03:16I will never let you die again.
03:23You didn't just destroy that thing. You reversed time. 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 Jace dies in 2 minutes 14 seconds.
03:54Jace, no. He's at the 7th line.
04:00He's been ambushed. Save him now or watch him die.
04:05I'm the one that's going to die.
04:16Jace!
04:26Jace. Look at me. Please stay with me.
04:31Lyra?
04:35Is it really...
04:38I saved him.
04:41But if you shed one tear for him,
04:43I will finish what those monsters started.
04:48The dark energy is spreading.
04:50We have to get him to the Sector 7 underground bunker.
04:52But he's too heavy!
04:56Lead the way.
05:03Target locked.
05:04Lyra, purge protocol activated.
05:22The pod's slowing it down,
05:24but only temporarily.
05:25We need a military-grade quantum battery.
05:28Otherwise, he dies in two hours.
05:35That mech out's outside.
05:37Its target is you.
05:40You change the timeline.
05:42It'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.
06:12Otherwise, you trigger the alarm.
06:13Just like you did at Outpost 3.
06:16How do you know about Outpost 3?
06:18Nobody survive except me and Jake.
06:20Because I watched you die there.
06:22Over and over again.
06:35Intruder detected.
06:37Intruder detected.
06:37Termination authorized.
06:57Golden blood?
06:59What the hell are you?
07:02Take the battery.
07:04Be ready to move.
07:28You're bleeding.
07:30Can you still walk?
07:30Move.
07:33Laia, the bunker shield is failing.
07:36There's another Reaper.
07:37Another one.
07:40It's a trap.
07:42Fall back.
07:45Jace doesn't have time for that.
07:47I'm going through.
08:03The shield is is breaking.
08:05Drop it.
08:05We need cover.
08:06Run.
08:07I'll buy you time.
08:09I don't leave useful assets behind to die.
08:11Move.
08:24Evelyn, two minutes out.
08:26Open the gate.
08:27Lyra, the pod's crashing.
08:30And there's something in the better.
08:33Go!
08:37Go!
08:38Go!
09:05They're getting in.
09:07They're getting in.
09:10They're getting in.
09:11Good.
09:14What?
09:19Love.
09:21Love.
09:23Love.
09:25Love.
09:38Goodbye.
09:42Plug it in.
09:57Erase.
10:10That's Arc 1.
10:20Lyra, 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
10:38you.
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!
12:07It'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...
12:33But 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.
13:18If it stops, yours stops.
13:20My pain, your pain.
13:23Bad luck, Lyra.
13:25You 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!
14:33If he's in pain, the whole world glitches!
14:39If this is just a play, then I'm walking off the stage.
15:00No more reader bullshit.
15:01Now tell me, who are you?
15:03No more reader bullshit.
15:05Give me a name I can actually understand.
15:16You can call me Aureal.
15:21Welcome to the real wasteland, Lyra.
15:46Welcome to the real wasteland, Lyra.
15:48daностью?
15:55Wait!
15:56Don't bleed out.
15:56I need you functional.
16:12Here are the sims.
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, every time you touch yourself, I feel it.
16:51So tell me, how 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 Leela.
17:47Initiating timeline reset.
18:01Touch her and I'll incinerate your code.
18:10Target lock.
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.
18:48Lila.
18:50Lila.
18:51I can't.
19:06Error.
19:07Unauthorized target.
19:11Don't look at him.
19:13Look at me.
19:18Lila.
19:19Take the shot.
19:20Don't let me do this.
19:37Chase.
19:40He's down.
19:41But the grid is tearing apart.
19:43We have to move.
20:02Drop it.
20:03You'll kill us both.
20:04Good.
20:05The virus can't run on dead hosts.
20:10See if a hard reboot works on God.
20:31Jace tore his own arm off.
20:34He was crying.
20:36You said this is a comic book.
20:38A script.
20:39So his tears?
20:41Was it all just ink on a page?
20:43Is this a joke to you?
20:45Watching 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.
21:06You fought.
21:07You bled.
21:08You killed.
21:10I didn't come here to watch a drawing, Lila.
21:12I came for you.
21:14I came for you.
21:23The mark!
21:24It burns!
21:35It's not the proxy.
21:37Something else found us.
21:39It burns!
21:40It burns!
21:53It burns!
21:59Oh, my God.
22:27It hurts, Lila.
22:30Why do we always have to die?
22:34Every single time.
22:46Who are you?
22:47What are you?
22:48I am you.
22:51Who died a billion times.
22:58Is this another trick?
23:00Another simulation?
23:03Answer me.
23:04Answer 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.
23:28It's 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.
23:53Initiating physical purge.
24:12You didn't just destroy that thing.
24:14You reversed time.
24:16Tell the system.
24:17The purge is cancelled.
24:29You rewrote your own code.
24:33Can you walk?
24:34I'm going back to Sector 7.
24:36To kill Evelyn?
24:38No.
24:39To ask her who wrote this script.
24:44And then...
24:45I'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.
25:43You 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.
26:04You 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.
26:49You played God with my life fine.
26:51From now on, I am God.
26:54As you wish.
26:56My God.
26:57Author privileges completely over-videred.
27:00Initiating protocol blank canvas.
27:02World weish in progress.
27:04World weish in progress.
27:08Protocol blank canvas initiated.
27:11Formatting sector 7.
27:15Stand 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.
28:24Ah
28:25ha ha ha ha ha ha!
28:28Ah
28:53Sloppy, you let it touch you.
29:01Punish me later. Brace for impact.
29:15The system re-writ the core logic. It's trying to bury us in the sketch layer.
29:20A sketch is meant to be erased.
29:28Deploying 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.
30:34If my life is a script, then I choose how it ends!
30:40Jake!
30:44No!
30:46No!
30:46No!
30:48No!
30:51No!
30:52No!
30:53No!
30:59No!
31:03No!
31:04No!
31:04No!
31:08No!
31:19No!
31:21No!
31:23No!
31:30we have a tower to climb gravity's gone to hell we have to jump through the debris
31:42then jump
31:49warning unauthorized heat approaching the core
31:51accelerating deletion
32:10hold on
32:33it's hard code brute force won't dent this it needs an administrator's signature
32:40then sign it
32:53you have made a mess of my publication orion
32:59you were the architect oriel you held the pen now look at you a stray dog wearing a glitch's leash
33:08how 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
33:30you love her pain so much orion fine
33:33but she
33:35won't remember you
33:57protocol memory wipe enjoy your new genre lyra a perfect painless utopia
34:11lyra
34:12lyra
34:13don't close your eyes
34:22good morning sweetie
34:25Breakfast in bed for the beautiful bride.
34:30Morning, Mom.
34:31I slept great.
34:32But my wrist feels weird.
34:36It looks perfect, Lyra.
34:38Not a single blemish.
34:39Yeah, it's just...
34:41It feels too light.
34:42Like I forgot to put on a watch or something.
34:45Look at you.
34:46Flawless.
34:47Jace is going to lose mind when he sees you.
34:59Lyra, what are you doing?
35:01You're ruining the skin.
35:02I don't know.
35:03It just itches.
35:04It feels like something heavy is supposed to be there.
35:11What are you doing here?
35:31You look perfect.
35:34Thanks.
35:35This place is intense.
35:49Now it's...
35:52I have the patch.
35:54It'll vanish in one second.
35:58No marks.
35:59That's much better.
36:03I need some air.
36:04I'm walking back.
36:13Lyra.
36:15Why can't I?
36:45You're zoning out on me.
36:54Lyra.
36:59Stand up.
37:00You're white as a shield.
37:02It's the pain in my chest.
37:04I can feel his pain.
37:06It's a hologram.
37:08An art, Proust.
37:09You're probably dehydrated.
37:11Stay put.
37:12I'll go grab some water.
37:13Who are you?
37:14Why, why can I feel your pain?
37:19It's just a show.
37:20Go home.
37:23Go home.
37:32Go home.
37:37Go home.
37:38Go home.
37:43Go home.
37:45Go home.
37:46Go home.
37:48Go home.
37:48Go home.
37:49Go home.
37:50Go home.
37:51Go home.
37:51Go home.
37:52Go home.
37:53Go home.
37:53Go home.
37:54Go home.
37:54Go home.
38:08hey you shouldn't be here
38:14who are you it's just an immersive show miss a piece of art
38:24go home the rain will ruin your clothes
38:34you're lying
38:41i'm not just go please
38:59priest do you lyra take this man in sickness and in health as long as you both shall live
39:19the dress is stained it's ruined
39:26you're having another episode drink this it will fix everything
39:31what is that medicine for your nerves stage two discharge initiating
39:48this wedding this dress all of it it's fake he's real that pain is real
39:54you're confused drink the medicine let it pass it's fake
40:05this place lyra do not walk out of this church watch me
40:22lyra return to the ceremony
40:33citizen please remain calm emotional anomalies are temporary
40:39you're
40:41you're
40:57you're
41:05you're
41:13you're
41:13this exceeds standard anomaly parameters
41:18she is not supposed to remember how to fight
41:23she just stopped caring about your perfect script
41:26final phase initiated execute
41:32she is
41:33she is
41:33she is
41:33she is
41:59she is
42:01she is
42:12Security breach. Unauthorized entity within perimeter.
42:21Let go. Please.
42:34I was the author.
42:37Lyra!
42:46You 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.
43:17Anomaly restored.
43:18You put me in a box.
43:20You put him on a cross.
43:22Now I erase yourself.
43:31Your mistake was keeping us both alive.
43:42Combat capability exceeds all parameters.
43:46Full suppression.
43:50Here'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.
44:49She'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.
45:18Well, shit.
45:29You tore a hole in his page.
45:31He can't undo that.
45:33Why 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.
46:08Well, that's where we're heading.
46:11That shouldn't be there.
46:33Cut the link.
46:35What?
46:37The 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.
47:18Together!
47:19Together.
47:28It's going to hold.
47:31I know.
47:37It stopped.
47:41The gene bank.
47:47It 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.
48:44You know how to break it.
48:47I 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, no 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.
51:09I can't do this alone.
51:11I can't do this alone.
51:32Go.
51:34We go together.
51:37Hold on.
51:38Not letting go.
51:40No.
51:45No.
51:46Cough, cough, cough.
52:16Cough, cough, cough.
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.
52:49You're here. I'm here.
53:02The ARC-1 final transmission captured what scientists called an unidentified luminous event.
53:18fled Reykjnem kaldön,
53:18Is it away from love?
53:26Now this were theит01s at Wolf Gagzum.
53:27Theos fans had started to make and dreamed of things down they just wanted a blag.
53:30Here's theences of El Trodello Vending Ensuite.
53:32Fill this into the spring ending and has come into problems estому as it stayed quiet with them yet.
53:38There's no bounds of leaving the Semperes on from a restaurant.
53:39And we want them to be of such a courthouse.
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 Orien on someone real?
54:51Something like that
55:03You haven't signed mine
55:06What do you want me to write?
55:09You know
55:39Who's going to write?
55:45Where does it mean you'reebeest?
55:46Don't forget to make it
55:46Go, go
55:46Go, come
55:46Go, go
55:47Yeah
55:47Go
55:48Go
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