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is in its harmony.'

[Awan] 'Beauty?

[Cane] 'Such complexity.

'If I can decipher its message,

'it will help us

when we arrive at it.

'Face to face

with its originators perhaps.'

[Awan] 'Mission Control

would like you to focus

'on the mission, Cane,

'lest you be diverted

by superfluous notions

'such as these.

'Its harmonies are

none of our concern.

'Of your concern, brother.'

[Cane] 'I'm sorry.

I retract those thoughts.

'Solitary, individual thoughts.'

[ Music plays]

[Bleep]

[Eva] 'Cane, why is the signal

playing so loudly?'

[Music stops]

What could we call

the sound, Eva?

Awan and I called it abstract,

or something else.

Perhaps it has a purpose

that we don't understand.

It fascinates me.

Play transmission.

[ Music plays]

Stop transmission.

It troubles me.

Play transmission.

[ Music plays]

- Stop transmission.

- [Music stops]

[Seth] 'Eva, status update.'

[Eva] 'Seth.

'All levels normal.

'Trajectory is good.

'Margin for error

is at a minimum.'

[Seth] 'And Cane?'

[Eva] 'Our connection

is not yet strong.

'But does Awan

not report on him?'

[Seth] 'She does.'

[Eva] 'We are working well,

brother.

'As expected.'

[Seth] 'That is good.

'You are to tell me,

'should anything

out of the ordinary happen.

'As your brother, as well

as your point of contact

'to Mission Control, of course.'

[Eva] 'He plays the signal.

'Over and over, he

listens to that transmission.

'He talks about it.'

[Seth] 'I see.'

[Eva] 'It will not be a problem.

'I will see to it that he

continues to perform his tasks.'

- [Noise builds in his head]

- [Grunts]

Uh.

[Awan groans]

Oh, no.

[Cane] 'Awan,

I hear their consciousness.'

- [Awan] 'So painful.'

[He cries out]

[Cane] 'What is it?

What is happening?

'This does not

feel like it should.

'This isn't right.'

[Awan sobs]

'My babies.'

[He cries out]

- [Cane] 'Awan!'

- [Awan] 'Cane!

'Help... help me.

'Someone.'

[Cane] 'I do not feel them.

'Where are they?'

[Grunts]

[Cries out]

Brother, help me.

[Sobs]

[Groaning]

[Cane] 'Awan?'

'What is happening?

'Awan, talk to me.'

Awan is dead.

What?

In childbirth, she died.

[Eva] And the children?

They are dead.

- All of them?

- Yes.

I have no connection

to Home now.

[Clears throat]

[Eva] 'You must concentrate.'

[Cane] 'Yes, we will. I must.'

[ Music plays]

- Stop. Go back.

- [Music stops]

- Go.

- [ Music plays]

- Stop. Go back.

- [Music stops]

- Play again.

- [ Music plays]

- Stop. Go back.

- [Music stops]

[ Music plays]

- Stop. Go back.

- [Eva] 'Cane.'

- And again.

- [Eva] 'Cane.'

- Stop. Go back. Play.

- [ Music stops and starts]

- Go back.

- [Music stops]

- Play again.

- [ Music plays]

[Eva] Cane!

- Stop.

- [Music stops]

Tomorrow we should

practice mind-training.

It will focus you.

[Eva] 'The absence

is confusing him further.'

[Seth] 'It is a tragedy

for the mission.

'He needs to stay strong.

'He depends solely on you

for his habilitation now.'

[Eva]

'If I can help him to focus,

'that will give him balance.

'I need him to remain

concentrated on the mission.

'I cannot imagine

how I would cope without you.

'Seth?'

[Seth] 'Report back

on his progress, sister.'

I'm trying to block you

from reading me.

Try harder.

- You're blocking me.

- I'm uniquely perceptive.

You're strong.

You could block me

if you wanted to.

I could never hide from Awan.

That is normal.

It is your turn

to chart the course.

That is the routine.

Routine. Routine.

[Cane] 'I know that

you can't hear me, but...

'Can anyone hear me?

'You must be close,

close enough?

'Too far.

'Please answer.

'There are many of you

out there. There must be.

'Can you hear me?

'Hear me! Hear me!

'Please answer.'

[Alarm pulses]

[Glass breaks]

[ Music plays]

[Music stops]

Too quiet.

Play transmission.

[ Music plays]

Louder.

Louder!

- [ Music plays]

- [Alarm pulses]

[Eva] 'Cane?'

- Cane, what's going on?

- It's harmonious.

Ship! Revert to auxiliary power.

[Alarm stops]

I'm trying to remember.

You need to stop this.

[Eva] 'Hibernate.

Go into stasis.'

I'm worried about

your state of mind.

[Cane] 'It needs me to discover

what it wants. I'm close.

'I think I'm close

to deciphering its meaning.'

[Eva] 'You need to

regain your control.

'With this deviation,

you are losing me.

'Our connection will aid you

'so do not distance yourself

from me.

'The mission needs you focused.

'What is that around your neck?'

[Cane] 'It helps me to think,

to remember.

'I am back on deck now.

You do not need to wait here.

'You can go.'

'Do you like

the food we have here?

'Do you like the food?'

Why won't you speak to me?

Whether I like it or not

is irrelevant.

The question is irrelevant.

[Cane] 'Are you awake?'

[Eva] 'Yes.

You should be asleep.'

[Cane] 'There's no night or day

here. We're inventing it.'

[Eva] 'You are thinking along

'these abstract lines again,

Cane.

'I'm concerned about this.'

[Cane]

'Don't sleep yet. Please.'

[Eva] 'Good night, Cane.'

[Cane] 'I want to ask about you.

'I don't know much about you,

where you're from, your family.

'Where are you from?

What age are your parents?

'Do you want to know about me?

'You can ask anything

you want about me.'

[Eva] 'I am one of many,

like everybody else.'

[Cane] 'We are not like

everybody else.

'We are separate.'

[Eva] 'We are not separate,

Cane.'

I am separate.

Get away, keep away, get away.

[He murmurs]

Mine. Mine now.

[Murmurs]

New space.

Eva.

[Murmurs]

- Cane?

- [He murmurs]

[Cain] 'Use up. Use up.

Use... use up.'

What are you doing?

What are you saying? Cane?

[Cane] 'I am this.

'Shut out. Shut you out.

'Trash. Waste.'

[Eva] 'What are you doing

in there?'

[Cane] 'Mine, mine, mine.'

Mine, mine, mine. Mine.

'Stay out.

'Stay out. Mine.

'Not yours.'

[Eva] 'As we anticipated,

'the destination system has

a planet in the habitable zone.

'Calculations suggest

it is water-based,

'and we have charted

a course to it

'and I have everything

under control.'

[Seth] 'Is Cane under control?'

[Eva] 'It is difficult.

'He is causing me concern.'

[Seth] 'Yes.

'We have decided that you must

distance yourself from him now.

'Be sporadic in your connection,

else his mania is contagious.

'Do not jeopardize

your own state of mind.

'You must bear

our responsibility alone.'

[Eva] 'I will need you

to be with me, brother.

'If no-one else is.'

[Seth] 'I will be with you

when you need me.

'I can sense your struggle,

sister,

'and I will not let you go.

'We will not let you go.'

[Cane] 'What are Mission Control

saying about me?

'You need to tell me the latest

from Mission Control.

'I can't hear them anymore.

'Eva, are you listening?

'Why don't you tell me

their news?

'The news of Awan

and the others, the Hive.

'What news is there?

'There must be news.'

Are you blocking me?

Have you heard

from Mission Control?

Only as I have reported to you.

And how do I know that?

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