Miranda

[Tenacity]

Session 3: Interview of Miranda, Subject 42

-Recorded Audio-

Interviewer: "Miranda, are you feeling better today? Is the headache gone?"

Miranda: "It... it still hurts, like eyes on the floor, swimming in rocks and climbing waterfalls..."

Interviewer: "Miranda, you arent making any sense, what do you mean?"

Miranda: "I'm trying, trying to remember, pulling seeds from black and white, trying to grow color... it talks but without voice, I know it was my burden and my blessing, but why? I cant add 1 and B to make yellow..."

Interviewer: "Miranda, can you remember where you came from?"

Miranda: "Spaces of black and blue and purple and green, mottled rainbows without rain. The heat is invisible but I can feel it, it burns but I'm protected, I live in a metal shell and it cant reach me here."

Interviewer: "Miranda I need you to concentrate, answer the question please. Do you know where you came from, how did you get on Pittsburgh?"

Miranda: "Sea of tiny rocks, I remember, it's like pieces of a puzzle, they all fit together if you mash them hard enough, but the pieces break, everything is broken."

Interviewer: "So you remember Pittsburgh, but do you remember how you got there?"

Miranda: "Wings and fins like light swimming through black, flapping like a bird but not moving, just drifting on a ray of sunshine"

Interviewer: "You're not answering my question, Miranda..."

Miranda: "You hear but dont listen, see but dont recognize, you're blind and deaf and you dont even know, they say you're going to die soon, I believe them."

Interviewer: "Who, Miranda? Who says I'm going to die?"

Miranda: "We regrow like plants or lizards, I dont but we do, you dont either. If you die there is nothing, just black and no light, they say that's how it will be for you, soon."

Interviewer: "Sedate her, I've had enough for today."

Miranda: "Soon, quiet you'll see and black you'll hear, soon..."



Medical excerpt - attending physician Dr. Michael Palmer

"Miranda is showing severe signs of mental disorder, confusing words and speaking in exceptionally abstract terms. The interviewer cant even understand what she's saying half the time, and neither can I."

"While she was in session today, I looked around her cell and found strange symbols scattered across the walls. Further examination of the cell and Miranda herself revealed that she has been scratching at the walls in a trance-like state, wearing the skin off of her fingertips and writing in her own blood. This behavior is disturbing to say the least, it shows an incredible tolerance for pain, most likely when the nomad is in control."

"The symbols are like nothing we've ever seen, I sent some images of them to Professor Blair on Cambridge for analysis, he's studied alien ruins before and might know what these writings mean."

"The good news is that Miranda seems to be remembering more and more of her past, though the information drawn out by the Interviewer is still spotty. Holographic scans show that her brain is healing, but so is the Nomad in it... I fear what will happen if it is able to fully retake control of her."

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