Session 1

CC doesn't hesitate, saying immediately, "Ivan, I want him, space the other one then."

Leda sees a body in the other room to her right. Even though he seems still, she feels he is alive. But then she recognizes something. Her eyes widen. "Oh my God! Is that you, Jarrod? It can't be... but.... Wait a dang minute. This is crap. It's not real and my computer told me there was absolutely zero presence in this place."

When the hologram interrupts her she turns her attention to the other room on her left and sees the EUS agent. She didn't know the EUS guy anyway, this wasn't real and she'd play along and press the button to space the agent. On the slim chance this wasn't a fake scenario, she might see Jarrod again.

TBD is momentarily shaken by the painful image from his past, but he quickly steels himself, grounding himself in the present moment. "That's pretty messed up whoever or whatever you are."

Hariette. You hear the hologram's voice in your mind again. "Rage is meaningless. You are expected to make a choice."

"You need to clean your ears then, if you have any. I reject your dilemma. I made a choice. Both. Release them or tell me why it's impossible."

Hariette. For some time, there is no response from the hologram with its everchanging shape. Then, it says "It is not impossible, it is just not an option." Its shape stabilizes for some time, becoming Cass, then Leda, Hiro, TBD, one by one all the faces you have ever seen in your life. It stays like those faces for only one second, in the mean time speaking. This time actually speaking, its voice changing with every face. "You seek answers, you are not aware that you are the answer. You seek freedom, yet you refuse to acquire it." The faces' eyes turns to the buttons one at a time as it says the last words. "Choices are clear. Cooperate." You notice one last figure you have no opinion of when it finishes its words before becoming fluid again.

CC vomits her (holographic?) sushi over the floor, her nerves and the trauma of the Sophie's Choice laid before her. She didn't hesitate to codemn a man to death to save someone she hates (and loves).

Leda presses the button to space the EUS guy. She figures he's mostly dead anyway.

"Yeah, here's a little human geometry problem for you - go fuck yourself." TBD steps back from the containment devices and adopts a ready resting stance, feet apart, knees flexed, hands open and relaxed near his abdomen. Focusing on his breathing, he braces himself for whatever consequences might ensue. Full Gandhi, but ready, just in case.

"You seem to have a problem then. You require cooperation, but I require nothing from you. " And she sits, her back pointedly turned away from the hologram. "Release both prisoners, and then we can negotiate my cooperation."

It's difficult to see Inia suddenly, especially laying on the floor the way she is. Hiro loves the woman, even as he know how terrible she is for him... and he is for her. Two souls intertwined who can't help but bring out the worst in one another.

He looks at the woman's image longingly for a long, quiet moment, then he turns to the shifting figure before him.

"Fuck you. That's not Inia. And I have no idea who this guy is. None of this is real. So fuck you. Space yourself."

Hiro, Hariette and TBD. For a quite some time, the hologram in front of you continues changing shape, constantly. Then for a split second you feel your wrists burning. Not much of a painful feeling, this feeling is not pain as you remember but you can also describe it at best as burning. Then you open your eyes.

Leda and Cass. You see the hologram disintegrating in front of you, splitting into a thousand million pieces and slowly disappearing. Everything else seems to disintegrate as well. Then you open your eyes.

Dreams are messages from the deep.

Space. The ship wanders through it without much effort. Just you're about the finish your last blink, you all find yourselves in the ship, exactly as you remember before appearing in the rooms.

END OF SESSION 1