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[Sings] I am your everyday everything
I see your face as your sentences swim,
I see the demons underneath your skin,
I see the teeth in the cracking of your smile,
I see the black of your eyes in denial,
I see the same thing again and again,
I see the aftermath of letting you in...
Say, Mister, are you one of them bad *** rock stars?
Jen! You scared the crap outta me.
Sorry babe!
Hey! Hey, hey, Lewis, what's up?
This huge freak in the crowd kept staring at me like some whacked out psycho.
Well, maybe you never checked out your audience before but you guys don't exactly share the same fanbase as Kenny G.
Tch. This was different. He looked seriously creepy...
Ooh, that reminds me, grab your money and let's split, we gotta go visit the landlord.
Great set man!
Come on! If we don't pay him tonight we're gonna be living in a box.
Aw, Jen. You never used to complain. I think we're growing apart.
I'm 21 now Lewis, too old to be living like a bum.
Plus I'm gonna need study space once I start college.
No autographs. Creep
Goodnight guys. See ya next week.
See ya buddy!
God... what is that thing?
Hey!
Hey, n-n-now don't make me hurt you, man.
Jen! Run!
Jen!
Is this your Jane Doe?
Yeah, came in two nights ago, hasn't come round yet.
She's a fighter though. I've lost plenty with injuries less than hers.
"Five broken ribs, lung punctured in two places, ruptured spleen"... What she do, get hit by a truck?
She left some nightclub with her boyfriend. Looks like a gang jumped them. Left her lying outside the club.
They found him several blocks away, he's in the room three doors down.
So... what do you think?
Fifty - Fifty.
Come on, doctor.
There's a coffee and doughnut downstairs need your attention.
That... was one freaky dream.
This a... hospital? What the hell happened?
Oh my God! I'm dead!?
No, no, no, I don't wanna be dead, things were just starting to work out, Lewis and I were just...
Oh my God... Lewis... what happened to us?
Huh? What the hell are you?
A bit short for the grim reaper aren'tcha?
You're not dead Jennifer, but if you don't be quiet and listen to me, you soon will be!
My name is... well, let's say you can call me Scree.
I've been sent to find you, to show you some very important things and to enlist your assistance.
Right... well... Scree... glad I'm not dead, but first you better explain how come I'm looking down on myself, she is creeping me out!
Your corporeal form, the one still lying there, is very weak, close to death perhaps but not yet lost.
That is only part of you. The other part, your spirit.... that's you.
I set it free from your body so that we could talk.
In fact now that it's free, you'll find you can travel to places you've never even imagined.
Right, so... I'm like an astral projection or something?
Essentially, yes.
So what does that make you?
I am but a humble servant to my Lady, and to you I'm a friend, someone you need to trust.
Now quickly you must come with me, we're both vulnerable here.
Ok. But only cuz I'm intrigued. I've never been an astral projection before.
Ok, Jennifer?
What the hell -
My God...
What just happened? Where are we?
Questions, questions! We're no longer in Mortalis. We've stepped through a Rift Gate into the Nexus.
Still huh?
As I said earlier, your spirit is no longer constrained by flesh.
You have left the physical mortal world and now stand in the Nexus: a convergence point for energies drawn from the four realms of Oblivion.
Sounds like one of Lewis's fantasy novels.
This is real Jennifer. I know you mortals think you're at the heart of everything, but believe me, you're not!
Now please try to absorb all of this quickly, there really is no time to waste.
Ok, I'm trying. Just one thing though - no matter where we are you gotta stop calling me Jennifer. You sound like my step-dad. It's Jen.
I am to give you these. They are devices that will help you to learn of your true self.
And if my Lady is correct, they may afford us some protection.
What am I supposed to do with this?
It's a vambrace. They fasten around your wrists. Please, it's important that you trust me and just put them on.
I've just jumped out of my skin, left my body in some hospital, been dragged through a riff gate...
RIFT Gate.
... and I'm in Oblivion. Vambrace? Not a problem.
Precisely.
Ooh, shiny! And pretty comfy for a pair of metal doodads. Could have been made for me.
They were.
So uh... how do I get 'em off?
You don't.
And this guy wants me to trust him!
This 'Lady' you keep mentioning. Who is she?
I serve Arella. She is all that is good and pure. She is strength and virtue. She is righteousness. She is nobility.
She's a person, right?
She is NOT a person!
She is not mere flesh and bone, emotion and desire. She is one of two primal forces that govern the universe. She is Order.
And the other would be... ?
The other would be Abaddon, the embodiment of Chaos. Lord of corruption and decay.
He is my Lady's eternal foe, and the reason for my being.
Right... uh... you know your're gonna have to introduce me to this Arella.
Oh, I shall, and she will be most relieved to see you, but first I must show you more of Oblivion. Please follow me.
Scree? Will all this start making sense any time soon? Is there nothing you can say that won't leave my head spinning?
I think that perhaps... your Lewis may have been brought here.
Lewis? Lewis here? You've got to help me find him!