Episode 34: Tightly Locked
After it was all over, Bella stood up and staggered as if dazed. Cassandra went to her immediately. “Are you all right, Mom? Can you remember everything?”. Her mother couldn't say anything. Then she started to cry. “No… It's still all gone! Why… Why did my head have to show me those horrible pictures again? sob… I… I don't know what to do"/. Cassandra fell silent and held back her emotions, “It's okay mom, it…it'll come back for sure”.
A telepathic conversation took place between Chloe and her father. (“What went wrong?”/ “Nothing went wrong, father, the machine is perfectly fine and did exactly what it was supposed to do. But it couldn't break through the barrier, it could only show the day of the abduction. You saw the images that followed. They go up to a certain point, then it's all gone. I'll analyze them later"/ ‘mhm’).
Pascal went outside and met his big brother. “So, how did it go? You were in there for a really long time. “/ “Not very well. She hasn't recovered her memories, except for one. We now know how she disappeared and who did it"/,,so… A kidnapping?"/ ‘It was a Gioric’/ ‘Oh my…’. Friedbert knew the old stories that Polli had told the brothers a long time ago. About the different alien species, and the Gioric had stuck in his mind in particular.
.Later. It's 7:32 pm. We talked for a long time in the lab. But at some point Cassandra withdrew from the conversation and went upstairs. At some point, Pascal came after her. She was crying a lot, as if she had to get rid of a huge burden, „Hey, is everything all right? I know…"/ ”Please, I just want to be by myself now. Go home with mom, okay?”… without another word, she left the premises.
Pascal went back to the lounge above the lab, “Well, we should go home then, we can't do anything for now… Cassandra, she…"/ ”leave her alone, I could feel her disappointment and the pain that I also feel. It's not the machine's fault that it didn't work out,” Bella's voice was calm. “Yes, we should go now”.
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Later. When the brothers arrived home with Cassandra and Pollination, Lazlo was not alone with his nephew, “why are you here, Lazlo is at home”. Alecia looked at him, snivelling. “I know, I… I ran away, Pascal, I just couldn't stand it there anymore, they're all so mean and…“/” Oh man, sweetie, I hope there's no trouble. The application still hasn't been fully processed"/ ‘I'm sorry’.
“Can I please stay? I'll keep looking after your little one when you have to work“/”And what about school? You're not going to neglect it, there's only a month left“/ ”i know, but, I don't want to go back, please, I can sleep in my sleeping bag, I brought one with me“/”hh,…. OK, but I have to report it to the authorities, OK?” / ‘Yes, OK, I'll leave you alone for a moment, you have a few things to discuss, Lazlo said’.
The atmosphere in the living room was tense. “What's going to happen now?” asked Pascal. “I'm waiting for Chloe to get in touch. She's going to analyze a few more pictures"/ ”What else was on them? You were talking, I saw that"/ ”terrible things, she must not have been well. And the last memories end abruptly"/ ‘would someone enlighten me and where is Cassandra?’ Lazlo said impatiently.
Polli told Lazlo what had happened in the lab. “It didn't work? Were there any technical problems?"/ ‘No, everything worked with the technology, but the barrier to her memories couldn't be completely broken through.’/ ”And it was really a Gioric who took her? That's weird, they're actually long gone"/ ”So he came from the past and took her there.”
“And then she somehow ended up in Lunar, in the future. That's why she got this time anomaly and died."/ ‘OK, that all makes sense, but my question still hasn't been answered, where's Cassandra?’/ ”Sorry, you wanted to know what's going on and we answered you. She wanted to be on her own first“/”She's out there alone? Pascal!“/”hey, she'll probably be home in the next hour or two”.
But Lazlo didn't accept that, he stood up… “Hey, what are you going to do now?“/”I'm going to look for her, what else? We're here in the desert, Pascal and she haven't seen everything yet, she doesn't know her way around at all…"/ ”Lazlo, she hasn't fallen on her head… Come on now…”. But he didn't want to be talked to and left the house very quickly..
“LAZLO! God, he's always so impulsive…” Then Bella suddenly appeared at the same moment he left the house. “Let him go… I think… It's right that he's looking for her. My gut tells me that“/”Do you think something will happen to her?“/”No, I can't see anything threatening… And I'm… Her mother, I should feel that“/”okay, let's wait and see”.
Later. After the few remaining people in the house had eaten dinner, everyone retired. But less than half an hour later, Polli called Pascal and Friedbert to him. Oasis Landing made contact with him and sent him all the information that could be found about Bella via his mental computer. At the same time, he received a message from Chloe…
“And what is it?“/”That's really amazing. I have a kind of detailed medical report in front of me. But it's from a scientist. His name was Len Sekemoto. Wait… She appeared on Lunar one day in a desolate state, completely apathetic, full of fear and she kept begging for her terrible memories to be taken away“/”what might have happened to her…“/”She wasn't the only victim back then….” “Chloe analyzed all the pictures and sent them to me. It came suddenly, in the middle of the night… A meteor shower of gigantic proportions that crashed down on the Gioric planet“/”that's why they all died out, yes… But then Bella would have died there already…"/ ”She didn't. She managed to escape… But how did she manage that? My goodness…"/ ‘What, what do you see?’.
“it happened within a few seconds, two, three at most…A time portal opened and she disappeared through it“/”but… How did this portal come about, it must have been built somehow…"/ ,,there must have been someone who took pity on her, he sent her through…. But I can also see that he died. There is no one left of them in the whole universe, they were all wiped out. And the planet with them.” / ”One last good deed, so to speak… Oh boy”.
“Was there anyone among the Gioric who had compassion?"/ ”There were always some outsiders who wanted to do good… There were also scientists among them. He sent some of the women back home, only Bella arrived somewhere else misunderstood“/”on Lunar Lakes. And how did she lose all her memories?"/,,Not lost… They were… Put on ice, sealed, you could call it”. . sealed?“/”As I said, she was in a desolate state, Dr. Sekemoto wrote that her psyche had suffered greatly. The abduction, the stay on the planet, then the meteorites that reduced everything to fire, rubble and ashes, she saw many of the Gioric die and also a few… A few of the women. She couldn't cope with that. So he removed all these negative memories from her.“/,,and what about the memories BEFORE the abduction?”.
. “Well, she's banished it to some corner of her brain where she can't find it herself…. The Reminder bypassed all those memories to show us, perhaps something more important to it, and that was the abduction“/”do you think the device has its own mind now too?“/”Not unlikely, artificial intelligence. Anyway, it needs a trigger to release all her memories again”.
“And what kind of trigger could do that?”. Polli ended the transmission, took a deep breath and stood up. “An emotional one. A strong feeling that outweighs everything else"/ ‘does she know that?’/ ‘how could she? it has to happen on its own’/ ‘phew… where is she?’/ ”She has withdrawn, we should give her that. Well, that's it for now. I can't do any more at this point. I want to go home, good night, you two“/”o.k., and thanks for everything”. Pollination went home. And after the others had mentally processed all the new information to some extent, they went to bed too. Only Lazlo and Cassandra weren't back yet.…
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