THE SEGMENTS OF NIDAROS 2042

Segment One – Flowers are without hope. - Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943

::Thursday::

Eva is chatting to a help-line shrink, soon after one of her hits. A peculiar friendship is brewing, that later will come in handy.

Ash is finishing his beer with his AtomSec colleagues before heading home to his family.

Their worlds wide apart, even though Eva's back in Nidaros.

Later, Eva’s collecting the payment from her employer Bruce The Boss. Meanwhile, Jean McClusky (CEO of AtomSec) and his agent Maya, who are leading the SRPHM project, have become aware of Eva’s presence and demand Bruce to kill her. Eva walks into Bruce’s trap, not knowing that somebody wants her dead, and finds herself at gunpoint with one of Bruce’s henchmen.

Segment Two – Above Him stood the Seraphim. – Isaiah 6:2

::Friday::

Eva finds out who wants her dead by surprising Bruce The Boss with a gun to his head. But she doesn’t know why. With the information from Bruce she checks out a warehouse. It so happens to be the same warehouse that Ash and his guards are protecting that same night, by direct request from Jean McClusky. Inevitable the twins clash together, causing the death of one of Ash’s team mates. Their worlds have now collided, and Eva’s vicious world is now Ash’s.

Segment Three – A world turns to ash

::Saturday::

Having learned that Eva got away, Maya is now on the hunt. As agreed, Eva and Ash meet in the World Ocean Space Center. Time is not on their side, and they barely get away before Maya can finish them. The strange agent Maya also shows a hidden agenda with a mystery man, about the SRPHM project. A trap is set, and as Eva and Ash reaches his apartment to secure his family, the place explodes in a blazing inferno.

Segment Four – Sweeter far than flowing honey.Homer, The Iliad (XVIII, 109)

::Sunday::

With vicious means, Eva and Ash get away and fool Maya in believing them dead. Awaking on Eva’s couch, Ash’s situation dawns on him. Seeking revenge for the death of his wife and son, having learned that their doctor, Kimberly Vaugn is part of the SRPHM project, Ash heads to the hospital. Eva arrives just as Ash’s learnt that his son is alive. So does Maya, but the twins manage to get away, with the help of Eva’s help-line shrink.

Segment Five – Elevators

::Sunday and Monday::

Eva, Ash and John, the help-line shrink, heads back to the warehouse where the twins first met, where the SRPHM project is based. Maya and Jean McClusky and a team of soldiers are right behind them, and it culminates in the labs on the lower levels. Ash is killed, but before he dies, Jean tells him the terrible truth about his little boy. It isn’t Ash’s, but his. Eva and John manage to get back to the elevator, not knowing Maya is waiting for them. But Maya proposes a deal with Eva, having her hidden agenda with the project.

Eva is in the elevator at the AtomSec HQ, going to pick up what she believes is her brother’s son. Unaware of their deal, Jean sees this as an easy opportunity to finish Eva. Instead he is lying in his own pool of blood, while Eva walks away, with the baby in her arms. The agreement is fulfilled. Maya’s now leading the SRPHM project, and has made Eva part of it. Eva has got her revenge and believes she’s rescued her nephew.

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©2009, Magnus Aspli