Hello! My name is Evan Redgrave. I’m going to be working on this floor with you.
Hello! My name is Evan Redgrave. I’m going to be working on this floor with you.
Maria Curie, loasldey fomdlyvo.
Nice to meet you!
Zhfyarvy dloarzhiv loasldey fomdlyvo!
Sorry?
ZHORLSSCHCH! ORLRWL! Tslod ayayyav ayvkkoldzh…
Sorry, I don't understand you!
Responses
End conversation
Zhfyaryvdloarzhvyasldeyfomdllyvo! Yvolarvyola? vapmivfapi? yaCHSACHsi? VHTMvm?
Hello! My name is Evan Redgrave. I’m going to be working on this floor with you.
Hello, Maria!
OH! You speak in my language! At last they guessed to give me an interpreter!
I'm not an interpreter!
I know. You are Evan. Your names I know. Who are you?
I'm just your colleague!
I wish for you a good day! Is good to see you! How are you going? Oh, long time haven't seen you! What?
Responses
Ask about work
Talk about interpreter
Talk about the child
Ask about tests
Ask about Carl Zero
General chat
End conversation
Maria, to be honest, I studied your language to find out why you aren't working.
I not working?!
Yes, Oliver Vertinsky says that you work in neuroscience and genetics, and that DNA is a universal language that doesn't need translating. He expects some results from you.
Universal language? If jailer beat Oliver every night, all languages he would have forgotten!
What are you talking about?
All day I sit and wait for the night with fear. I cannot write. I cannot read. I cannot do anything.
Why?
At night, guard comes... Angry. Bad. Nobody sees.
Is the guard beating you?! Why didn't you say anything?! Oh, yeah…
I tried to make report. No one understands. I'm scared. No way out.
This is unacceptable! I won't let it stand! Either he’ll leave you on his own, or I’ll find a way to reign him in and he will regret it!
No, Evan! It will be worse! I cannot stand it!
Don't worry! Given the kind of hurdles I had to overcome to make it to this floor, it’ll take more than some guard to stop me!
Maria, I see that they gave you an interpreter.
Yes. Now I can ask to go to the bathroom or tell them if something hurts.
Then why are you so sad?
Because my soul hurts, Evan!
What happened?
I'm with a child.
Whoa. How could that happen?! You don't know anyone here!
The guard.
Oh… I’m sorry… So what now?
I don't know. His child I don't want to keep. But this is also my child. My child is not my enemy! Evan, what should I do?
About the child…
I don't know. His child I don't want to keep. But this is also my child. My child is not my enemy! Evan, what should I do?
Responses
Suggest running away
I don't think the interpreter is as well-trained as the guard you had. You can try to escape.
And then what?
Get on a freight train, get to the border, maybe even cross it. Give birth to your child at home, in peace and quiet.
You say it so easy, but it is difficult. And scary!
Responses
Scare her with possible consequences
But if you don't run away, everyone will soon find out that you’re pregnant, and when the child is born, they’ll surely take them to the House of Misfits.
The House of Misfits? What is it?
A terrible place, Maria, believe me. And they’ll probably lock you up!
Take my child away? Lock me up? Evan, I agree. I need to run!
I’ll try to explain everything so that it's easier for you.
Thank you, Evan! The kindest here was you!
You're welcome, Maria! Good luck!
Think of other options
Suggest contacting the embassy
Have you tried to contact your country's embassy? Maybe they can help.
How? I do not have phone! How do I call?
Responses
Call yourself
I can call them from my phone and tell them about you.
You can do that?
Of course, it’s no trouble.
Is dangerous!
I'll be careful, don't worry!
Evan, thank you! You my savior!
Wait, let's try to get you out first. Then we'll talk.
Think of other options
Advise her not to keep the child
You don’t have to keep your rapist’s child, Maria. Especially if you think that it’ll always remind you of all the hurt, humiliation and pain. Can you live with that?
You are right, Evan.
So what do you plan to do?
I cannot go to doctor. I have the medicines, but... I am sacred. What if something goes bad?
Responses
Persuade
You’re a geneticist, Maria - you know the human body better than anyone in this building. Surely you know how to administer the drugs properly?
You are right, Evan. I am a scientist. I will manage.
I don't doubt it.
Think of other options
Keep the child and work hard
No child is to blame for the sins of its father. Human life is cheap in this country... If you think you can make your child’s life worth something more, then you should keep it.
You think I should give birth?
Responses
Support her
I know you can do it! Just think about your baby gently breathing against your chest.
Ah... I am going to cry, Evan! I do really want child!
You’ll make a great mother.
Mother, me... All my life I dreamed about it. It is pity that everything happened here, but the child is not to blame, yes, Evan?
Of course!
Thank you for your support, Evan! I will do as you say!
Think of other options
Discuss it another time
Maria, have you heard anything about personality testing?
Your language is so funny, I hear it as “ha-ha-ha”. “Personality testing” I don't hear.
Maria, do you know anything about Carl Zero?
I do not know Carl Zero. What is it?
Not what, who. The man who became the template for our clones.
I did not work with your clones. I not know who is Carl Zero. I saw only tests. By chance. Looking at adrenaline stats, I can say Carl Zero was much afraid and angry a lot.
How do you know?
I saw test results next to biocontainers before download of firmware. High adrenaline. This is him, Carl Zero, inside.
Biocontainers?
Clones. With no firmware. The consciousness is suppressed, but subconscious is afraid and angry.
Responses
Ask how she's doing
How are you doing, Maria?
Very good. After I decided to keep child, the interpreter offered me friendship. He said he liked me. And my baby.
Great. Does he hurt you?
All men hurt. But this one is better than previous one.
That makes sense.
I feel like I have wings! It is over, you know? Again I can work, I can do science!
I'm happy for you, Maria!
Thank you, Evan! You really helped me! It is time for me to go. See you again! And how do you say? Glory to the Leader!
All hail the Leader!
I did it with my own hands. Killed the enemy.
I'm very sorry... How are you?
It hurts, Evan. Life is empty. I want to cover myself in work. Forget all.
I hope you succeed…
A new person they gave me. She knows my language - it is good!
I'm glad!
Treats me two times better.
What do you mean?
The guard beat me every day. This one does not.
Better can be, like they say.
“Could be better”, you mean.
Yes.
Ask about the guard
And who is this with you?
That is guard. Do not show what we are talking about him!
Why?
Will be worse. Later. Where they hold me. When people don’t see us. He will ask and hit. Hit and ask. And then, then…
Calm down, Maria!
Okay, okay... Cannot cry! I can do it!
Ask about family
Where is your family?
My family is in my country.
You don't talk to them?
Only in my thoughts. They do not give me telephone.
Ask about her everyday life
Are your living conditions alright?
They put me in a house. Together with guard.
Do you need anything?
Food I have. Life I don't.
What?
I want to go to home, Evan. Or to die.
Ask how she ended up in the Ministry
Maria, how did you end up in the Ministry?
The special forces of your country took me. I am geneticist and neuroscientist, I gave a report for an international conference.
Took you?
Yes. From the hotel room. At night. They gave me table, gave me papers, test tubes, microscope. They gave where to sleep. And a guard.
Umm… Sorry…
Why?
For everything… It’s…
Evan, it was not you, your country did it! You are a prisoner too. Only without a guard. You are all caged here.
Ask about colleagues
Did you ask anyone here for help? Maybe someone else knows your language?
I don't know I can to trust, Evan. Maybe you too are a spy and will make it worse for me.
I'm not a spy!
How do I know? But I cannot be silent anymore, so I want to at least speak my language.
Back
Go. Go.
Redgrave! Why did you tell him what I told you? Why?!
The guard came... He did horrible things!.. I want to die! I cannot... I cannot!
Hello, Maria! How are you? Where are you calling from?
Evan! The management learned about that I am pregnant! They made me fired from the Ministry! I have no right to give birth without a citizenship.
Why don’t you leave?
I had no a permission to enter. Without it, I cannot get a permission to leave.
What are you going to do?
They sent me to work. Toilets at the station should be clean, and I can do that job.
That's terrible!
My interpreter still talks with me. He is my only hope.
Can I help you with anything?
No, Evan! It is too much risk. Thank you for everything, goodbye.
I don't have time to talk about this.
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