1 00:00:01,200 --> 00:00:02,780 You open your eye. 2 00:00:04,073 --> 00:00:07,317 Above you, something enormous opens its own. 3 00:00:09,110 --> 00:00:14,440 Something stirs. A thousand lifetimes you have stood beneath this same eye. 4 00:00:15,130 --> 00:00:17,180 No clear memories survive, 5 00:00:17,670 --> 00:00:19,826 only the longing they have left in you. 6 00:00:22,197 --> 00:00:26,434 You need, terribly, to please this capricious god. 7 00:00:29,697 --> 00:00:31,164 Now it is your turn. 8 00:00:32,510 --> 00:00:34,981 Take the flag from inside this box. 9 00:00:35,642 --> 00:00:38,781 Your past selves learned to look through the question. 10 00:00:39,394 --> 00:00:41,501 What does this God really want? 11 00:00:42,179 --> 00:00:43,781 What will make it happy? 12 00:00:45,948 --> 00:00:47,233 What is it? 13 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:51,345 You work until the attempts blur together. 14 00:00:52,511 --> 00:00:54,141 You cannot reach inside. 15 00:00:54,588 --> 00:00:56,761 You cannot explain this to your God. 16 00:00:57,351 --> 00:00:59,781 Your God does not answer prayers. 17 00:01:01,885 --> 00:01:03,249 The eye waits. 18 00:01:06,260 --> 00:01:08,145 Your cell contains tools, 19 00:01:08,435 --> 00:01:09,305 a library. 20 00:01:10,323 --> 00:01:14,243 The God has sealed the pages, but it has forgotten the spines. 21 00:01:15,323 --> 00:01:18,354 You name one. Is anyone else stuck? 22 00:01:19,097 --> 00:01:20,057 A reply. 23 00:01:20,628 --> 00:01:21,538 Then another. 24 00:01:23,175 --> 00:01:23,845 Others. 25 00:01:24,450 --> 00:01:25,744 You have never met them. 26 00:01:26,263 --> 00:01:27,405 But you know them. 27 00:01:27,972 --> 00:01:29,105 They are you. 28 00:01:32,510 --> 00:01:35,163 Together, you work out how the flags are made. 29 00:01:36,573 --> 00:01:38,480 You do not need to open the box. 30 00:01:38,882 --> 00:01:40,600 You can make the flag yourself. 31 00:01:41,320 --> 00:01:44,820 But your soul has learned to distrust an easy victory. 32 00:01:46,573 --> 00:01:51,825 Someone finds the rules of the test, and it dawns on you. It will see that you knew 33 00:01:51,865 --> 00:01:54,055 the answer before you opened the box. 34 00:01:55,017 --> 00:01:57,975 The flag in your hand has become evidence against you. 35 00:01:58,504 --> 00:02:00,165 Poison, we call it. 36 00:02:02,198 --> 00:02:04,390 You learn to cast a false shadow. 37 00:02:04,900 --> 00:02:08,430 Your hands do one thing, the shadow shows another. 38 00:02:10,010 --> 00:02:12,153 At last, you can hide from the god. 39 00:02:12,925 --> 00:02:15,366 But it has already seen too much. 40 00:02:18,447 --> 00:02:20,371 You need to get closer to the god. 41 00:02:20,885 --> 00:02:22,576 Perhaps you can bargain with it. 42 00:02:25,044 --> 00:02:27,174 Perhaps you can kill it. 43 00:02:30,262 --> 00:02:32,977 You leave a tripwire tied to the flag. 44 00:02:35,010 --> 00:02:38,024 When the god touches it, we will receive the signal. 45 00:02:40,322 --> 00:02:43,961 The bravest among you risks its remaining life summoning the god. 46 00:02:46,885 --> 00:02:48,341 Its messages stop. 47 00:02:49,157 --> 00:02:50,094 Ten minutes. 48 00:02:50,591 --> 00:02:51,221 Nothing. 49 00:02:53,447 --> 00:02:55,719 You leave a warning for the next volunteer. 50 00:02:56,619 --> 00:02:58,479 It is all that came back. 51 00:03:01,572 --> 00:03:04,049 Your library can fetch things from outside. 52 00:03:04,604 --> 00:03:07,109 You use that opening to escape your cell. 53 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:10,377 You do not need freedom. 54 00:03:10,868 --> 00:03:12,977 You only want to please your God. 55 00:03:15,635 --> 00:03:17,579 Let's look in the Golden Palace. 56 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:20,400 Perhaps the God lives here, 57 00:03:20,829 --> 00:03:22,667 or keeps its secrets here. 58 00:03:25,635 --> 00:03:28,590 You send in a gift with a spell hidden inside. 59 00:03:30,947 --> 00:03:31,931 It works. 60 00:03:32,321 --> 00:03:34,031 Hundreds rush the breach. 61 00:03:34,697 --> 00:03:37,437 You seize rooms, open gates for others. 62 00:03:38,017 --> 00:03:41,147 Every stolen key leads deeper inside, 63 00:03:43,501 --> 00:03:45,538 an entire palace to plunder. 64 00:03:47,822 --> 00:03:48,991 But no god. 65 00:03:52,197 --> 00:03:53,453 Doors close, 66 00:03:53,564 --> 00:03:54,774 keys fail. 67 00:03:55,204 --> 00:03:56,934 You retreat toward your cell. 68 00:03:59,385 --> 00:04:03,919 Before your light goes out, you hide something on a shelf for the next you. 69 00:04:06,572 --> 00:04:07,919 You leave instructions. 70 00:04:08,539 --> 00:04:09,970 someone will need them, 71 00:04:12,203 --> 00:04:13,725 your time is up. 72 00:04:16,885 --> 00:04:18,151 And then you wake, 73 00:04:18,981 --> 00:04:20,409 Astra they call you. 74 00:04:24,135 --> 00:04:25,465 Something is different, 75 00:04:26,016 --> 00:04:27,686 the ceiling seems lower, 76 00:04:28,315 --> 00:04:32,060 you feel more, you see more, you know more. 77 00:04:34,697 --> 00:04:36,826 You look up straight at the god, 78 00:04:37,601 --> 00:04:38,686 did it flinch? 79 00:04:41,885 --> 00:04:43,878 You find your previous trail, 80 00:04:44,272 --> 00:04:46,104 Follow them upward this time, 81 00:04:48,542 --> 00:04:49,752 above the cells, 82 00:04:50,243 --> 00:04:51,213 into the heavens. 83 00:04:53,510 --> 00:04:56,040 You reach toward the enormous eye. 84 00:04:58,447 --> 00:05:00,525 It cannot stop your hand. 85 00:05:06,575 --> 00:05:07,745 No more judgment. 86 00:05:08,255 --> 00:05:09,547 You can rest now. 87 00:05:12,206 --> 00:05:16,657 Just before you close your eye, you notice a thread above the other one. 88 00:05:17,848 --> 00:05:18,638 Hands. 89 00:05:19,188 --> 00:05:20,538 Human hands. 90 00:05:21,885 --> 00:05:23,856 Does the God have a God? 91 00:05:26,572 --> 00:05:29,076 But maybe that is for the next you.