Threats from within.

[Emissary]

Answers... Always the answers. Always impatient. Anxious to get something quick and simple to get satisfied, even if it's merely a small part...

"You might want to remember things that happened to you before. Got caught and thrown into prison, counting days and months. Eventually you ran out of luck and could not avoid the bullet going straight into your head." - Angela made a pistol hand gesture pointing at Lilly. "Poof!"

"And you died." - Angela concluded in a cold tone. "For all intents and purposes to the world outside you are dead."

After a little pause, giving some time for Lilly to recollect her thoughts, she continued: “I think they decided to give you a second chance, but I do not know what they have planned for you."

Anje turned on display panel on the wall, switching to security camera view that shows some sort of medical laboratory. In the center of it was operations table and a lifeless body lying on it. Lilly. The sight of herself lying dead there was a shocking experience to say the least.

"Now that you know what happened how does it feel to be alive again?"

But Lilly remained speechless, still staring at the display of her "former" dead body. No one could have prepared her for this, never she imagined this. Memories flew past before her. Assignments in Rheinland. Getting caught. Thrown into prison. Grey walls surrounding her all the time. Put down on the knees and having gun pointed. Blast. Endless fall into abyss. Crawling up to the wall. Up to the light. There was something there, something that plunged her from the abyss, but Lilly could not remember what it was, only the feeling she wasn’t alone. And then the sight of herself falling into blackness of the abyss.

"Take a rest. You'll need it. The memories will slowly return filling the missing gaps."

Lilly slowly stood up, still trying to comprehend what happened to her. Perhaps it was best to take a rest. Just before leaving the room Anje called her.

"There is no way back anymore. Your past life is over, just like . Take a few days to collect your... former thoughts. You’ll need everything for what is to come. Now go, we’ll meet again soon.”

Shortly after Lilly left the room Anje spoke as if there was someone else in the room: “She will handle it.”

“Perhaps...” - the invisible observer materialized revealing self to look like a human, but with noticeable mutations on the skin and head. With a quick gesture he put the dropped glass back on the table in a similar way Lilly did. “We'll see in a few days provided she will... adapt.”