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INTERLUDE 0: GENESIS

My darling ones, be careful now, and don’t go out alone

--SIMONE KIMBERLEY, DON’T GO OUT ALONE

Here there be ust 17, 2015: Tih to look like a Hollywood fil out of a science fiction lass and steel equip in this scene is fully believable: the wo in front of the mass spectrometer, her wavy blonde hair pulled into a ponytail, a broad slish bone structure and the sort of pale co the type of person who virtually never goes outside There is a petri dish in her blue-gloved hand]

DR CALE: Doctor Shanti Cale, Diphyllobothriuenesis viability test thirty-seven We have successfullyof seventy percent huical slurry A full breakdown of the slurry can be found in the appendix to s appear to be viable, but we have not yet successfully induced hatching in any of the provided growth mediums Upon consultation with Doctor Banks, I received permission to pursue other tissue sources

[She walks to the back of the rooe, airlock-style door has been installed The cah the airlock, and into what looks verythere, faces covered by surgical h to put down her petri dish and put on a mask of her own]

DR CALE: The subject was donated to our lab by his wife, following the accident which left hially brain dead For confirally, please see the ress report

[The movement of her ally

[Dr Cale crosses to the body Its midsection has been surrounded by a sterile curtain; the face is obscured by life support equiple of the shot She pulls back the curtain to reveal the glea interior of the man’s sliced-open abdomen The skin has been peeled back, and the blood has been suctioned away, revealing a wide array of colors Liver brown, intestinal green and glistening white, and the smooth pink sac of the stoans aside until the surface of the small intestine is revealed]

DR CALE: Scalpel

[One of the maskeddown against the man’s intestine He does not move Her hand does not tre strict sterile protocol, in part because infection is not a risk The subject’s is were introduced to the subject’s syste with the nutrient paste we have been using to preserve basic biological functions