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[willlive_living_lived]

[It's a good enough sign for Robert, certainly. Anything that doesn't involve a gun fired at his head is an improvement on his "worst case scenario."

The man is, at least, remorseful enough to listen.]

It's complicated -- I won't bore you with the science. It will have to suffice to say that Anna is in another world. Similar to this one but different. Zachary Comstock is the leader of a theocracy there. He is the man who paid me to broker our deal and provided me the funds. He was... desperate... to have a child.

[Which is all DeWitt needs to know. Not that he'll remember it. For the first two weeks after crossing between worlds, Robert had only remembered his name and Rosalind. He'd surrounded himself with scientific journals and accounts of what had happened to him. His own hand and written by Rosalind. His mind had tried desperately to rationalize everything.

He'd been away, been touring Europe. Then, he'd joined Rosalind in Columbia. Only through vicious, repetitive focus on the journals had he finally been sure of it all. That those memories were false, created to solve the cognitive dissonance of existing in a place where he didn't exist.

DeWitt would have no need to fight that as much. He could embrace just the knowledge of the task.]

My sister and I developed a way to go between the worlds, thus how we brought Anna from one to another. We can do the same with you.

If I could, I would take you right to Anna. Save you the journey, but that won't work. Comstock is... probably watching our house -- my sister's and mine. If you emerge from it, even in the dead of night, he'll kill you.

So, we will be delivering you an associate of ours. He will take you to a lighthouse. He'll have a box for you -- things to help you get started. The lighthouse is the door to Columbia. A messenger of mine will be waiting when you enter Columbia proper.

When you get to Monument Island, my sister and I will be able to help a little more.

[The plans were already set. Wait for DeWitt to make it that far and, if he did, help destabilize and sabotage the siphon. They didn't have the power to destroy it, but they could weaken it enough to allow the Lamb to escape.]

Once Comstock realizes you're in Columbia, he'll do everything he can to stop you. You'll be fighting a man who thinks he's a step away from being God in a city that reveres him as a god.

You'll have your work cut out for you, Mr. DeWitt.

[If only everything could go according to plan.

Robert knows how unlikely that is. Knows the number of ways this can go to lead to his own death. It's almost a certainty. But...

Things get set in motion.]