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Absolution (Southern Reach, #4)
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Dead Town
Twenty years before Area X
“Yet once they halted in their relentless cataloguing, recording, reporting…wasn't there so much to give them pause�. ‘the null effect� to create a something from the nothing in the darkness, the mind betraying you every time.’�
The biologists sent by Central arrives at the Forgotten Coast. As the scientific team continues their cataloging and collecting, strange things begin to happen. Four alligators, referred to as the Calvary, are seen. Rabbits are spotted, some with cameras and some eating crabs. Then a mysterious figure appears. The stranger…was it Rogue? He brings destruction, a shower of words, blood, and flames. Finally the heavy rains subsides and the sounds of a distant battle was heard. And all along Old Jim reviews the maps, the transcripts, and the surveillance tapes.
“…the Rogue ran forward and kept running forward, knives emanating from his mouth and blood and light spreading out from him on all sides.�
“His eyes were as a flame of fire…and he had a name written, that no man knew�.And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood�.And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations�.�
-Revelations
The False Daughter
Eighteen Months Before Area X
“The world was filled with forgotten places that had been something else once, had contained something else once, renamed by whatever you did there now.�
Old Jim’s daughter, Cass, has disappeared and then his boss, Jack Severance, signs him up for a new mission, find and kill Rouge. Rouge, the one seen leading an alligator? He heads back to the Forgotten Coast with a fake daughter as his assistant. He reviews the files and interviews members from the old scientific team. Old Jim begins to suspect that Central has decided to terminate not merely his contract but his life.
“And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.�
-Revelations
The First and the Last
One Year After the Border Came Down
A team of twenty-three enters Area X. One was charged with finding and extracting Old Jim. Get him, or whatever he has become.
“‘The light?�
‘The opening at the other end. And because they'd put a small, primitive camera on the chicken and the chicken went through the hole- they knew it was possible for a person to go through.’�
‘And what happened to the chicken?�
He didn't know why, but he felt very invested�.He could imagine the chicken drawn by the light�.head for the light, chicken. You can do it�.
‘But…the chicken’�.
‘Oh, unrecognizable. That's the really great, interesting part� it didn't resemble a chicken at all any more, but at least the camera was intact�.�
That's when Lowry did leave the table�.no way had the chicken been the first expedition�.
What had the chicken…looked like in the end?�
Twenty years before Area X
“Yet once they halted in their relentless cataloguing, recording, reporting…wasn't there so much to give them pause�. ‘the null effect� to create a something from the nothing in the darkness, the mind betraying you every time.’�
The biologists sent by Central arrives at the Forgotten Coast. As the scientific team continues their cataloging and collecting, strange things begin to happen. Four alligators, referred to as the Calvary, are seen. Rabbits are spotted, some with cameras and some eating crabs. Then a mysterious figure appears. The stranger…was it Rogue? He brings destruction, a shower of words, blood, and flames. Finally the heavy rains subsides and the sounds of a distant battle was heard. And all along Old Jim reviews the maps, the transcripts, and the surveillance tapes.
“…the Rogue ran forward and kept running forward, knives emanating from his mouth and blood and light spreading out from him on all sides.�
“His eyes were as a flame of fire…and he had a name written, that no man knew�.And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood�.And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations�.�
-Revelations
The False Daughter
Eighteen Months Before Area X
“The world was filled with forgotten places that had been something else once, had contained something else once, renamed by whatever you did there now.�
Old Jim’s daughter, Cass, has disappeared and then his boss, Jack Severance, signs him up for a new mission, find and kill Rouge. Rouge, the one seen leading an alligator? He heads back to the Forgotten Coast with a fake daughter as his assistant. He reviews the files and interviews members from the old scientific team. Old Jim begins to suspect that Central has decided to terminate not merely his contract but his life.
“And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.�
-Revelations
The First and the Last
One Year After the Border Came Down
A team of twenty-three enters Area X. One was charged with finding and extracting Old Jim. Get him, or whatever he has become.
“‘The light?�
‘The opening at the other end. And because they'd put a small, primitive camera on the chicken and the chicken went through the hole- they knew it was possible for a person to go through.’�
‘And what happened to the chicken?�
He didn't know why, but he felt very invested�.He could imagine the chicken drawn by the light�.head for the light, chicken. You can do it�.
‘But…the chicken’�.
‘Oh, unrecognizable. That's the really great, interesting part� it didn't resemble a chicken at all any more, but at least the camera was intact�.�
That's when Lowry did leave the table�.no way had the chicken been the first expedition�.
What had the chicken…looked like in the end?�
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