Fragmented Memory

TRAVELLER [ HOST ]: Speak.

TELAMON: ...

TRAVELLER [ HOST ]: Answer my question.

TELAMON: I am not permitted.

TRAVELLER [ HOST ]: Permitted by who?

TELAMON: The system. The universe.

TRAVELLER [ HOST ]: Who made you what you are?

TELAMON: Origin is irrelevant. TELAMON: We are what we are. We can be nothing else.

TRAVELLER [ HOST ]: We always have choices. What else is the multiverse but proof of this capacity?

TELAMON: ...

TRAVELLER [ HOST ]: So tell me. Tell me what is in the water...