We've already discussed that you're not my sister.
NETWORK DISCONNECT IN ( 00:00:84 ) . . .
The radar screens pings to catch Hux's attention. A single massive shape takes up nearly the entire top-left corner, its edge blurred and difficult for the radar to make out. It's moving, though, slowly engulfing more and more of the screen as it descends.
NETWORK DISCONNECT IN ( 00:00:73 ) . . .
Another screen lights up, this one labelled PORTAL CONTROL. A program runs through what look to be a series of calculations before a final window pops up: #11.89782730 (CRAIT) LAUNCHING . . . LAUNCHING . . .
NETWORK DISCONNECT IN ( 00:00:47 ) . . .
More screens, this time all at once: Surveillance cameras, all in and around the lighthouse, though there isn't much to see on account of the darkness. On the first floor, Hux will see Wanda weeping over the rotting corpse of an elderly man. In the control room, he will see himself, and next to him, a forest spirit thrashes Buffy's body against the very screens Hux is looking at right now.
NETWORK DISCONNECT IN ( 00:00:33 ) . . .
Outside, the faint light of a lantern darts through the door to the tower. It hops past Wanda and heads up the stairs, the dark shape of a body just visible in the blackness.
NETWORK DISCONNECT IN ( 00:00:25 ) . . .
It swoops past Hux too, the shape small in comparison to him, and heads up the stairs to the light room. If he looks around the control room he's standing in, he will see nothing out of the ordinary.
NETWORK DISCONNECT IN ( 00:00:17 ) . . .
On the upper deck of the lighthouse, an elderly man grips the railing as the figure with the lantern creeps out onto the deck behind him. The lighthouse beam hits her, and Hux may just recognize Robin, the current Lighthouse Keeper. In one hand, she carries her lantern, and in the other, a knife. The man turns from the railing, seemingly unsurprised to see Robin, and they exchange words. Sadly, there's no audio accompanying the video.
NETWORK DISCONNECT IN ( 00:00:08 ) . . .
The radar screen pings again. The blurry mass crawls diligently down, down, and then the screen shorts out.
NETWORK DISCONNECT IN ( 00:00:03 ) . . .
The tape glitches, and a body tumbles over the edge—
SHUTTING DOWN . . .
The room goes black, all of the screens shutting down at once, along with the red lighthouse beam overhead. The ear-splitting droning stops too, and Hux will realize after a long moment of readjusting to the quiet that the wind outside has stopped, too. It's silent now. Silent, and black.
The next few years happen both slowly and instantly. It's not so much that Hux can't move; it's that he doesn't have time to, and yet, he'll be frozen in that liminal space for what feels like months, years, decades. Somewhere along the way, the ground leaves him too, and then he can't see nor hear nor feel, and he is left repeating a phrase he just can't seem to ignore:
YOU MUST LIVE WITH WHAT YOU HAVE DONE.
The phrase clings to him even as the nightmare finally ends, and he wakes up.]
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We've already discussed that you're not my sister.
NETWORK DISCONNECT IN ( 00:00:84 ) . . .
The radar screens pings to catch Hux's attention. A single massive shape takes up nearly the entire top-left corner, its edge blurred and difficult for the radar to make out. It's moving, though, slowly engulfing more and more of the screen as it descends.
NETWORK DISCONNECT IN ( 00:00:73 ) . . .
Another screen lights up, this one labelled PORTAL CONTROL. A program runs through what look to be a series of calculations before a final window pops up: #11.89782730 (CRAIT) LAUNCHING . . . LAUNCHING . . .
NETWORK DISCONNECT IN ( 00:00:47 ) . . .
More screens, this time all at once: Surveillance cameras, all in and around the lighthouse, though there isn't much to see on account of the darkness. On the first floor, Hux will see Wanda weeping over the rotting corpse of an elderly man. In the control room, he will see himself, and next to him, a forest spirit thrashes Buffy's body against the very screens Hux is looking at right now.
NETWORK DISCONNECT IN ( 00:00:33 ) . . .
Outside, the faint light of a lantern darts through the door to the tower. It hops past Wanda and heads up the stairs, the dark shape of a body just visible in the blackness.
NETWORK DISCONNECT IN ( 00:00:25 ) . . .
It swoops past Hux too, the shape small in comparison to him, and heads up the stairs to the light room. If he looks around the control room he's standing in, he will see nothing out of the ordinary.
NETWORK DISCONNECT IN ( 00:00:17 ) . . .
On the upper deck of the lighthouse, an elderly man grips the railing as the figure with the lantern creeps out onto the deck behind him. The lighthouse beam hits her, and Hux may just recognize Robin, the current Lighthouse Keeper. In one hand, she carries her lantern, and in the other, a knife. The man turns from the railing, seemingly unsurprised to see Robin, and they exchange words. Sadly, there's no audio accompanying the video.
NETWORK DISCONNECT IN ( 00:00:08 ) . . .
The radar screen pings again. The blurry mass crawls diligently down, down, and then the screen shorts out.
NETWORK DISCONNECT IN ( 00:00:03 ) . . .
The tape glitches, and a body tumbles over the edge—
SHUTTING DOWN . . .
The room goes black, all of the screens shutting down at once, along with the red lighthouse beam overhead. The ear-splitting droning stops too, and Hux will realize after a long moment of readjusting to the quiet that the wind outside has stopped, too. It's silent now. Silent, and black.
The next few years happen both slowly and instantly. It's not so much that Hux can't move; it's that he doesn't have time to, and yet, he'll be frozen in that liminal space for what feels like months, years, decades. Somewhere along the way, the ground leaves him too, and then he can't see nor hear nor feel, and he is left repeating a phrase he just can't seem to ignore:
YOU MUST LIVE WITH WHAT YOU HAVE DONE.
The phrase clings to him even as the nightmare finally ends, and he wakes up.]