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CODA: THE BLUE ROOM
Overview
Garral, now a prisoner in a stark facility, is brought to a blue room for questioning by an elderly interrogator named Carlon. Carlon reveals surveillance of the Carryx world-palace sent via a secure channel during a recent battle, source unknown. Garral cannot identify the sender. The interview pivots to Garral recounting Anjiin, signaling a new phase of intelligence-gathering and uncertainty about hidden allies.
Summary
Escorted by impassive guards through a sterile, color-banded facility, Garral is diverted from his routine and delivered to a slate-blue–coded “Restricted” room. Inside, he notes familiar furnishings and an abstract screen display, accepting surveillance as a given and waiting.
An elderly man, Carlon, arrives and introduces himself as Garral’s interrogator, adjusting his speech to Garral’s developing command of the language. After a polite offer of a drink, Carlon replaces the screen’s visuals with footage from the Carryx world-palace, specifically a corridor near the human moiety’s quarters.
Startled, Garral confirms the location but denies that it is his homeworld, clarifying it as the Carryx palace where humans were taken. When Garral asks how the image was obtained, Carlon explains it was transmitted via a secure protocol during a recent battle, then probes whether Garral knows the sender. Garral does not, and Carlon admits they also do not know.
With the source of the transmission unresolved—implying an unknown ally or actor—Carlon resets the interview’s scope, asking Garral to begin at the beginning and describe Anjiin. The scene closes with Garral’s captivity reframed as a methodical intelligence operation built on new, ambiguous evidence.
Who Appears
- GarralPrisoner in a restricted facility; shown palace footage; cannot identify its sender; pressed to recount Anjiin.
- CarlonElderly interrogator; conducts measured questioning; reveals secure-channel palace footage from a recent battle; seeks origins.
- GuardsImpassive escorts without Corvall’s armor; move Garral to a restricted blue room for interrogation.