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Grain of Eternity
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00:07Thrusters 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.
00:58There'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.
01:50Sector 4?
01:51But this was three years ago.
02:08I don't know.
02:20I don't know.
02:23I don't know.
02:27I don't know.
02:35I don't know.
02:37I don't know.
02:40I don't know.
02:43I don't know.
03:00Evelyn, look at me. It's really you. You're alive. You're really alive. I thought I lost
03:05you forever. Lyra, what are you doing here? No, no, listen to me. We made it. You're
03:12alive. What happened to you? I will never let you die again. You didn't just destroy
03:24that thing. You reversed time. Who the hell are you? I'm asking you, what the hell are
03:40you? I'm the one giving you a choice. Keep that gun on me and Jace dies in 2 minutes
03:5014 seconds. Jace, no, he's at the 7th line. He's been ambushed. Save him now or watch
04:03him die. Jace!
04:26Jace! Look at me. Please stay with me. Lyra? Is it really you? I saved him. But if
04:41you 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.
04:52But 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
05:29he dies in two hours.
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.
05:56Monomolecular 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.
06:35Intruder detected. Termination authorized.
06:57Golden blood? What the hell are you?
07:02Take the battery. Be ready to move.
07:29You're bleeding. Can you still walk? Move.
07:33Laya. The bunker shield is failing. There's another Reaper.
07:37Another one.
07:40It's a trap. Fall back.
07:45Jace doesn't have time for that. I'm going through.
08:03The shield is breaking. Drop it. We need cover.
08:06Run. I'll buy you time.
08:09I don't leave useful assets behind to die. Move.
08:24Evelyn. Two minutes out. Open the gate.
08:27Lyra. The pod's crashing.
08:30And there's something in the background.
08:35Goal!
08:35Goal!
08:38Goal!
08:38Goal!
08:38Goal!
08:38Goal!
08:39Goal!
08:40Goal!
08:41Goal!
09:05They're getting in!
09:16Goal!
09:20Goal!
09:21Goal!
09:22Goal!
09:23Goal!
09:24Goal!
09:25Goal!
09:26Goal!
09:27Goal!
09:27Goal!
09:28Goal!
09:28Goal!
09:29Goal!
09:30Goal!
09:31Goal!
09:32Goal!
09:33Goal!
09:34Goal!
09:35Goal!
09:36Goal!
09:36Goal!
09:42Plug it in.
09:57Erase.
10:10That's Arc 1.
10:14Ew.
10:15A reader.
10:17Someone who watched you die a billion times, Lyra.
10:20This is the first time I can actually touch you.
10:36Save the crazy talk.
10:38I need your firepower alive.
10:47Evelyn, what are you doing?
10:54Correcting an era, Lyra.
11:00You were supposed to die on Arc 1, sweetie.
11:05You're ruining the story.
11:08Shut up! Don't you dare use her voice!
11:35Get up! I don't have time to die here!
11:38And you're not dragging me down!
11:52It's the Reaper's poison.
11:53You have 30 seconds before your heart stops.
12:00Then save me, or I'll take you with me.
12:12My blood is the only cure.
12:15It'll make you faster, stronger.
12:18But it comes with a leash.
12:29Once you taste it,
12:32you belong to the script.
12:54Paid 1
12:59The gift isn't free, Lyra.
13:01My heart stops, yours stops. My pain, your pain.
13:08Bad luck, Lyra. You don't get to throw me away anymore.
13:18What is this? A hallucination?
13:23No. Rendering failure. She's deleting this panel.
13:33Lyra, you were never supposed to see this. Broken pieces have to be recycled.
13:50Stop following the rules. In this world, the glitch is your weapon.
13:59You said he sees the most important plug-in, right?
14:14I knew it! You can't afford to let him die! If he's in pain, the whole world glitches!
14:24If this is just a play, then I'm walking off the stage.
14:45Now tell me, who are you? No more reader bullshit.
14:50Give me a name I can actually understand.
15:01You can call me Aureol.
15:06Welcome to the real wasteland, Lyra.
15:40Don't bleed out. I need you functional.
16:10Damn it.
16:24Control your heartbeat. You're distracting me.
16:28Then cut it out, Lyra.
16:30Because as long as we're tethered, every time you touch yourself, I feel it.
16:36So tell me, how do you expect me to calm down?
16:47Pain is a great way to kill a distraction.
16:50Welcome to my world, Aureol.
16:59The agent is patching the system.
17:03She realized pure force can't kill us.
17:07So what's her plan B?
17:09Narrative correction.
17:10She's sending a reset switch.
17:29Anomaly detected.
17:31Target Lyra.
17:32Initiating timeline reset.
17:46Touch her and I'll incinerate your code.
17:55Target locked.
18:15Step away from him.
18:18Now.
18:20He's aim is the starter.
18:22He is the reset trigger.
18:25One touch.
18:28And you're dead again.
18:34Lyra.
18:35Run.
18:37I can't...
18:57Don't look at him.
18:58Look at me.
19:04Lyra.
19:04Take the shot.
19:05Don't let me do this.
19:23Jace.
19:25He's down.
19:26But the grid is tearing apart.
19:28We have to move.
19:32Jace.
19:47Drop it.
19:48You'll kill us both.
19:49Good.
19:50The virus can't run on dead hosts.
19:55See if a hard reboot works on God.
20:16Jace tore his own arm off.
20:19He was crying.
20:21You said this is a comic book.
20:23A script.
20:25So his tears?
20:26Was it all just ink on a page?
20:28Is this a joke to you?
20:30Watching us bleed?
20:32Watching us scream while you readers just turn the page?
20:36No.
20:38No.
20:39No.
20:40No.
20:41No.
20:42No.
20:44No.
20:45No.
20:45No.
20:45No.
20:46No.
20:47No.
20:48No.
20:50No.
21:08No.
21:09No.
21:10It burns!
21:20It's not the proxy.
21:22Something else found us.
22:09It's not the case.
22:12It hurts, Lila, why do we always have to die, every single time?
22:31Who are you?
22:33What are you?
22:33I am you, who died a billion times.
22:44Is this another trick, another simulation, answer me.
22:58So I'm supposed to fear this?
23:00It's my own pain.
23:06The system can wipe the files, but it can't erase the phantom pain.
23:12This is the weight, is the weight of your a billion deaths.
23:16In these billion deaths, you've been crying, haven't you?
23:21No!
23:26Give it back to me!
23:32Fatal error.
23:34Anomaly excludes threshold.
23:38Initiating physical purge.
23:58You didn't just destroy that thing, you reversed time!
24:00Tell the system, the purge is cancelled.
24:10Beautiful.
24:15You rewrote your own code.
24:18Can you walk?
24:19I'm going back to Sector 7.
24:21To kill Evelyn?
24:23No.
24:24To ask her who wrote this script.
24:28And then, I'm going to find the author.
24:42Keep up.
24:44The proxy is hardwired to the core.
24:46She won't talk.
24:47I'll make her.
25:10Unauthorized access.
25:19Who wrote this script?
25:20Give me a name.
25:29You want to find the author, Lyra?
25:32Ask the man behind you.
25:36Ask him who created your hell.
25:46You wrote this.
25:48You drew the reapers.
25:50You scripted Evelyn to wear my mother's face.
25:53Lyra.
25:57Is it fun, Orion?
25:59Playing God with our lives.
26:00Does it turn you on to watch us bleed ten billion times?
26:05You sat up there flipping the pages while I was torn apart in the dark.
26:08And now you drop down here playing the fucking hero?
26:12To play the victim?
26:13I was the author.
26:15But I burned the script for you.
26:18I fell into this cage to be with you.
26:20You want to be with me.
26:22You want to feel what I feel.
26:34You played God with my life fine.
26:37From now on, I am God.
26:38What?
26:39As you wish.
26:41My God.
26:42Author privileges completely overbitered.
26:45Initiating protocol blank canvas.
26:47World weish in progress.
26:49World weish in progress.
26:50World weish in progress.
26:51World weish in progress.
26:54Protocol blank canvas.
26:56Initiated.
26:56Formatning Sector 7.
27:01Stand up.
27:11Show them what a God's weapon looks like, Orion.
27:14Kill them all.
27:19As you command.
27:41Use the pain.
27:54The physics engine is breaking.
27:57Gravity is about to flip.
28:04Then let's fall upwards.
28:06To trade.
28:36Jack the
28:39Sloppy. You let it touch you.
28:46Punish me later. Brace for impact.
29:00The system re-writ the core logic. It's trying to bury us in the sketch layer.
29:04A sketch is meant to be erased.
29:13Deploying ultimate anchor. Eradicate the anomalies.
29:24Targets locked.
29:51He is a dead node. End him.
29:55I don't need your permission to decide who gets to live.
30:08Wake up, Jace! Fight the code!
30:15We grew up in the Sector 4 ruins. Help me tear this out.
30:19If my life is a script...
30:23Then I choose how it ends!
30:27Jace!
30:27Kill me!
30:30Waaah!
30:54Oh, my God.
31:15We have a tower to climb.
31:18Gravity's gone to hell. We have to jump through the debris.
31:27Then jump.
31:33Warning. Una-authorized heat approaching the core. Accelerating deletion.
31:55Hold on.
32:18It's hard code. Brute Force won't dent this. It needs an administrator's signature.
32:23Then sign it.
32:38You have made a mess of my publication, Orion.
32:44You were the architect, Orion. You held the pen. Now look at you. A stray dog wearing a glitch's leash.
32:54How pathetic. It's better than sitting in the dark with you, writing fake tears.
33:06So you're the one who wrote my billion deaths? Your writing is absolute garbage!
33:15You love her pain so much, Orion. Fine. But she... won't remember you.
33:43Protocol memory wipe. Enjoy your new genre, Lyra. A perfect, painless utopia.
33:56Lyra.
33:57Lyra. Don't close your eyes.
34:09Good morning, sweetie. Breakfast in bed for the beautiful bride.
34:14Morning, Mom. I slept great. But my wrist feels weird.
34:21It looks perfect, Lyra. Not a single blemish.
34:25Yeah. It's just... it feels too light. Like I forgot to put on a watch or something.
34:30Look at you. Flawless. Jace is going to lose mind when he sees you.
34:36Sigh.
34:41Sigh.
34:42Sigh.
34:42Sigh.
34:44Sigh.
34:44Sigh.
34:44Sigh.
34:45Lila, what are you doing? You're ruining the skin.
34:47I don't know. It just itches. It feels like something heavy is supposed to be there.
34:56What are you doing here?
34:59Sigh.
35:00Sigh.
35:02Sigh.
35:03Sigh.
35:04Sigh.
35:04Sigh.
35:08Sigh.
35:13Sigh.
35:15You look perfect.
35:18Sigh.
35:20Thanks. This place is intense.
35:26Sigh.
35:37I have the patch
35:39It'll vanish in one second
35:43No marks
35:44That's much better
35:48I need some air
35:49I'm walking back
35:57Lyra
35:58Why can't I?
36:15Why can't I?
36:29Lyra
36:29You're zoning out on me
36:39Lyra
36:44Stand up
36:45You're white as a shield
36:47It's the pain in my chest
36:49I can feel his pain
36:51It's a hologram
36:53An art proust
36:54You're probably dehydrated
36:56Stay put
36:57I'll go grab some water
36:58Who are you?
37:00Why
37:00Why can I feel
37:02Your pain?
37:04It's just a show
37:05Go home
37:53Hey
37:53You shouldn't be here
37:59Who are you?
38:01It's just an immersive show
38:03Miss
38:03A piece of art
38:10Go home
38:11The rain will ruin your clothes
38:19You're lying
38:25I'm not
38:27I'm not
38:28Just go
38:30Please
38:39Please
38:45Priest
38:46Priest
38:46Do you, Lyra
38:47Take this man
38:50In sickness
38:52And in health
38:53As long as you both
38:54Shall live
39:04The dress is stained
39:06It's ruined
39:11You're having another episode
39:13Drink this
39:15It will fix everything
39:16What is that?
39:19Medicine
39:20For your nerves
39:22Stage 2 discharge
39:24Initiating
39:33This wedding
39:34This dress
39:35All of it
39:36It's fake
39:37He's real
39:38That pain is real
39:39You're confused
39:42Drink the medicine
39:43Let it pass
39:46It's fake
39:50This place
39:51Lyra
39:52Do not walk out of this church
39:54Watch me
40:07Lyra
40:08Return to the ceremony
40:18Citizen
40:19Please remain calm
40:21Emotional anomalies
40:22Are temporary
40:50To be continued
40:58This exceeds standard anomaly parameters
41:03She is not supposed to remember how to fight
41:08She just stopped caring about your perfect script
41:13Final phase initiated, execute
41:233bs
41:412bs
41:51Can'tán
41:57Security Breach. Unauthorized Entity Within Perimeter.
42:06Let go. Please.
42:19I was the author.
42:21Myra!
42:32You wrote me a billion deaths.
42:35And I witnessed every single one.
42:39Don't die. I'm not done with you yet.
42:42As you command, my god.
42:54You're bleeding.
42:56Don't.
43:02Anomaly restored.
43:03You put me in a box.
43:05You put him on a cross.
43:07Now I erase you both.
43:16Your mistake was keeping us both alive.
43:27Combat capability exceeds all parameters.
43:31Full suppression.
43:35Here's the only parameter.
43:46You wore my mother's face.
43:49She was a skin for the proxy.
43:51Nothing more.
43:54She was more real than you.
44:04There she is.
44:07We're not done.
44:27There's a hole in my page.
44:34He's burned his core for you.
44:37Jace burned his battery for you.
44:39Evelyn is in pieces because of you.
44:41And for what?
44:42If you're going to wipe me, get it over with.
44:44Wipe you?
44:45No.
44:46You I'm keeping.
44:47The author's pet gets a special ending.
45:03Well, shit.
45:14You tore a hole in his page.
45:16He can't undo that.
45:17Why isn't he chasing us?
45:20Because it's not his page anymore.
45:22It's yours.
45:24We're going down.
45:26Now.
45:42There's something down here.
45:46I see it.
45:48That's from the Ark.
45:49The gene bank you grabbed.
45:52It's real.
45:54That's where we're heading.
45:57That shouldn't be there.
46:18Cut the link.
46:20What?
46:22The wipe is hitting me.
46:24If we stay connected, it'll take you too.
46:28So what?
46:30So cut it loose.
46:32Take the gene bank.
46:34Get out.
46:37You got this far on your own.
46:39You don't need it now.
46:42You came into this page for me.
46:45You burned your core for me.
46:49So don't you dare tell me to leave you behind.
47:00All right.
47:02Together.
47:04Together.
47:05Together.
47:13It's going to hold.
47:16I know.
47:23It's stopped.
47:27The gene bank.
47:31It was never loaded into his system.
47:36I designed the Ark outside the comics database.
47:43He can't touch anything from there.
47:45Then we stay in the light.
47:50It's pulling the real world towards us.
47:52Using the gene bank as an anchor.
47:55How long?
47:56Longer than we have.
48:04That object is not in the database.
48:09Where did you get it?
48:11He's going to throw everything he has left.
48:14The whole system.
48:16Once that hits, the gene bank won't hold.
48:26You built this world.
48:29You know how to break it.
48:32I don't have a core anymore.
48:34You gave me your blood once.
48:36Now give me whatever you have left.
48:44It's not enough.
48:49Then we give it everything.
48:51That's not part of the story.
48:59He's not stopping.
49:02Neither are we.
49:06This isn't enough.
49:08Not even close.
49:09I don't have a core.
49:11I can't give you the kind of power that breaks a page.
49:15You built this world.
49:16You built the tether.
49:17You said it binds everything.
49:19So bind this.
49:21Not blood to blood.
49:23Power to power.
49:24If I push what's left of my blood into the tether.
49:27And you push your dark energy in from the other end at the same time.
49:31Or they make something new.
49:44Now you.
49:54That can't.
49:56That power doesn't.
50:04We're close.
50:09If I can't have this world.
50:11No one can.
50:14Page zero.
50:31It didn't work.
50:34Not yet.
50:38Take the gene bank.
50:40The green light can still get you through.
50:43Say that again.
50:50The crack is still there.
50:54I can't do this alone.
51:17Go.
51:19We go together.
51:22Hold on.
51:23Not letting go.
51:30Meow.
51:31Meow.
51:31Cough.
51:32Cough.
51:33Cough.
51:34Cough.
51:35Cough.
51:35Cough.
51:36Cough.
51:37Cough.
51:37Cough.
51:37Cough.
51:37Cough.
51:38Cough.
51:39Cough.
51:40Cough.
51:40Cough.
51:42Cough.
51:44Cough.
51:46Cough.
51:47Cough.
51:49Cough.
52:14Still staring at it.
52:15Third week on the list.
52:22I sketched this out before we even moved in.
52:28So either I made it all up, or it already happened.
52:34You're here. I'm here.
52:46The Arc 1 final transmission captured what scientists called an unidentified luminous event.
53:22The Arc 1 final transmission.
53:23The Arc 1 final transmission.
53:30The Arc 1 final transmission.
53:33Say it.
53:35My God.
53:37Kiss me.
54:03Book tour starts today.
54:04I know. You nervous?
54:08No.
54:10No.
54:26Is it true that you based Orion on someone real?
54:36Something like that.
54:48You haven't signed mine.
54:51What do you want me to write?
54:54You know.
55:09What do you want me to write?
55:17How many times can I write?
55:18How many times can I write?
55:18How much time can I write?
55:22Maybe I can write.
55:23What do you want me to write?
55:24Me.
55:24I don't care.
55:29I can write.
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