El Observador del Abismo
El archivo del terror
[{'start': '6.680', 'end': '10.960', 'text': 'I was never the protagonist of this'}, {'start': '8.400', 'end': '14.160', 'text': 'story.  That role fell to'}, {'start': '10.960', 'end': '16.600', 'text': 'Elena, brilliant, charismatic,'}, {'start': '14.160', 'end': '19.480', 'text': 'visionary, the star of the'}, {'start': '16.600', 'end': '21.760', 'text': 'theoretical physics department.  She commanded all the'}, {'start': '19.480', 'end': '25.119', 'text': 'attention at every meeting.  He received the'}, {'start': '21.760', 'end': '27.720', 'text': 'scholarships, the awards.  I was just Marco,'}, {'start': '25.119', 'end': '29.759', 'text': 'her eternal assistant, taking notes'}, {'start': '27.720', 'end': '31.960', 'text': 'while she deciphered the secrets'}, {'start': '29.759', 'end': '35.040', 'text': 'of the universe, until that'}, {'start': '31.960', 'end': '37.680', 'text': 'winter came, the winter when everything'}, {'start': '35.040', 'end': '39.920', 'text': 'changed.  We had been given access to the'}, {'start': '37.680', 'end': '42.160', 'text': 'new particle accelerator, an'}, {'start': '39.920', 'end': '44.440', 'text': 'experimental piece of equipment capable of reaching'}, {'start': '42.160', 'end': '47.039', 'text': 'energies never before achieved in a'}, {'start': '44.440', 'end': '49.120', 'text': 'university laboratory.  Elena was'}, {'start': '47.039', 'end': '51.840', 'text': 'obsessed with proving her theory'}, {'start': '49.120', 'end': '53.760', 'text': 'about parallel dimensions.  Marco,'}, {'start': '51.840', 'end': '55.800', 'text': "we're about to see beyond the"}, {'start': '53.760', 'end': '57.640', 'text': "veil, don't you understand?  What"}, {'start': '55.800', 'end': '60.079', 'text': 'we perceive is only an'}, {'start': '57.640', 'end': '62.680', 'text': 'infinitesimally small fraction of reality.  The'}, {'start': '60.079', 'end': '64.880', 'text': 'first few weeks were'}, {'start': '62.680', 'end': '68.119', 'text': 'disappointing.  Nothing confirmed his'}, {'start': '64.880', 'end': '70.280', 'text': 'hypotheses.  Elena slept less and less.'}, {'start': '68.119', 'end': '73.080', 'text': 'His office became a labyrinth'}, {'start': '70.280', 'end': '76.080', 'text': 'of equations written on napkins,'}, {'start': '73.080', 'end': '78.280', 'text': 'whiteboards, and even the walls.  I'}, {'start': '76.080', 'end': '80.920', 'text': 'cared for her, but I also'}, {'start': '78.280', 'end': '84.720', 'text': 'admired her.  His determination was'}, {'start': '80.920', 'end': '87.840', 'text': 'unwavering and then it happened.  It was'}, {'start': '84.720', 'end': '90.640', 'text': 'during experiment 37. The readings'}, {'start': '87.840', 'end': '93.439', 'text': 'showed an anomaly, a'}, {'start': '90.640', 'end': '95.439', 'text': 'tiny fluctuation in the quantum field.  It lasted just'}, {'start': '93.439', 'end': '97.600', 'text': 'a microsecond.  Any other'}, {'start': '95.439', 'end': '100.240', 'text': 'researcher would have dismissed it as'}, {'start': '97.600', 'end': '103.759', 'text': 'measurement error.  We found it,'}, {'start': '100.240', 'end': '106.000', 'text': 'Marco.  We found a crack.  From that'}, {'start': '103.759', 'end': '108.960', 'text': 'day on we adjusted the experiment to'}, {'start': '106.000', 'end': '111.920', 'text': 'reproduce that anomaly.  Elena worked'}, {'start': '108.960', 'end': '114.680', 'text': 'like a madwoman and I, as always,'}, {'start': '111.920', 'end': '116.320', 'text': 'followed her faithfully, ignoring that'}, {'start': '114.680', 'end': '118.600', 'text': 'inner voice that warned me that we were'}, {'start': '116.320', 'end': '121.159', 'text': 'entering'}, {'start': '118.600', 'end': '123.880', 'text': 'forbidden territory.  After three weeks we'}, {'start': '121.159', 'end': '127.719', 'text': 'achieved it.  The anomaly stabilized'}, {'start': '123.880', 'end': '129.280', 'text': 'for 5.7 seconds.  Enough time'}, {'start': '127.719', 'end': '132.640', 'text': 'for our instruments to'}, {'start': '129.280', 'end': '134.720', 'text': 'register something disturbing.  A pattern'}, {'start': '132.640', 'end': '137.720', 'text': 'that defied known physical laws'}, {'start': '134.720', 'end': '140.640', 'text': '.  Elena called it the imprint of'}, {'start': '137.720', 'end': '143.200', 'text': "another reality.  That's when"}, {'start': '140.640', 'end': '146.760', 'text': 'the nightmares began.  At first they'}, {'start': '143.200', 'end': '149.400', 'text': 'were vague, non-Euclidean spaces,'}, {'start': '146.760', 'end': '151.440', 'text': 'impossible angles, a feeling of being'}, {'start': '149.400', 'end': '154.360', 'text': 'watched from all'}, {'start': '151.440', 'end': '155.959', 'text': 'directions and none at the same time.'}, {'start': '154.360', 'end': '158.200', 'text': 'I told Elena, who'}, {'start': '155.959', 'end': '161.519', 'text': 'surprisingly confessed to having'}, {'start': '158.200', 'end': '163.879', 'text': "similar dreams.  Don't you see, Marco?  Our"}, {'start': '161.519', 'end': '166.360', 'text': 'minds are processing what our'}, {'start': '163.879', 'end': '168.760', 'text': 'senses cannot'}, {'start': '166.360', 'end': '171.879', 'text': 'directly perceive.  We are being affected'}, {'start': '168.760', 'end': '173.920', 'text': 'by the proximity of the fissure.  I should have'}, {'start': '171.879', 'end': '176.000', 'text': 'been worried.  I should have'}, {'start': '173.920', 'end': '179.040', 'text': 'insisted on stopping the experiment,'}, {'start': '176.000', 'end': '181.480', 'text': "but I didn't.  Experiment 42 marked"}, {'start': '179.040', 'end': '183.760', 'text': 'the point of no return.  We increase the'}, {'start': '181.480', 'end': '186.400', 'text': 'power to the maximum.  The fissure'}, {'start': '183.760', 'end': '189.480', 'text': 'stabilized for almost a minute.  The'}, {'start': '186.400', 'end': '192.120', 'text': 'instruments went crazy and then'}, {'start': '189.480', 'end': '194.319', 'text': 'silence.  A silence so deep I'}, {'start': '192.120', 'end': '198.560', 'text': 'could feel it pressing against my'}, {'start': '194.319', 'end': '200.959', 'text': 'eardrums.  I saw it for a second, Marco.'}, {'start': '198.560', 'end': '203.840', 'text': "I saw what's on the other side.  He didn't want to"}, {'start': '200.959', 'end': '206.400', 'text': 'give me details, but that night the'}, {'start': '203.840', 'end': '210.400', 'text': 'dreams intensified.  It was no longer'}, {'start': '206.400', 'end': '212.840', 'text': 'just impossible shapes and angles.  There were'}, {'start': '210.400', 'end': '214.560', 'text': 'presences, entities moving'}, {'start': '212.840', 'end': '216.560', 'text': 'between folds of reality,'}, {'start': '214.560', 'end': '218.760', 'text': 'watching us through the tiny'}, {'start': '216.560', 'end': '221.760', 'text': 'fissure we had created,'}, {'start': '218.760', 'end': '223.680', 'text': 'watching us forever.  Elena'}, {'start': '221.760', 'end': '226.400', 'text': 'began to change.  At first, there were'}, {'start': '223.680', 'end': '229.159', 'text': 'small details.  He spoke more quietly,'}, {'start': '226.400', 'end': '231.560', 'text': 'avoided bright lights.  Sometimes he would'}, {'start': '229.159', 'end': '233.959', 'text': 'stand motionless, staring at a fixed point in'}, {'start': '231.560', 'end': '236.840', 'text': 'space.  Then he started writing in'}, {'start': '233.959', 'end': '239.760', 'text': "a language I didn't recognize, symbols"}, {'start': '236.840', 'end': '242.480', 'text': 'that made me nauseous just looking at them.'}, {'start': '239.760', 'end': '244.439', 'text': 'They are teaching me, Marco.  At'}, {'start': '242.480', 'end': '247.000', 'text': 'first I thought we had just'}, {'start': '244.439', 'end': '249.680', 'text': 'found another dimension, but it is so much'}, {'start': '247.000', 'end': '252.319', 'text': 'more.  They are dimensions within'}, {'start': '249.680', 'end': '256.639', 'text': 'dimensions, realities folded upon'}, {'start': '252.319', 'end': '259.759', 'text': 'themselves.  And there are beings there, ancient,'}, {'start': '256.639', 'end': '263.000', 'text': "infinite, they've been watching us,"}, {'start': '259.759', 'end': '265.240', 'text': 'waiting for someone to open the door.'}, {'start': '263.000', 'end': '267.360', 'text': 'I tried to reason with her.  I suggested that he'}, {'start': '265.240', 'end': '270.080', 'text': 'rest, even seek'}, {'start': '267.360', 'end': '272.600', 'text': "psychological help.  Do you think I'm going"}, {'start': '270.080', 'end': '275.520', 'text': 'crazy?  No, Marco, for the first'}, {'start': '272.600', 'end': '277.759', 'text': 'time I am perfectly sane.  I am'}, {'start': '275.520', 'end': '281.600', 'text': 'seeing the true nature of'}, {'start': '277.759', 'end': '283.960', 'text': 'reality and they have chosen me.'}, {'start': '281.600', 'end': '286.520', 'text': 'The situation worsened.  Elena stopped'}, {'start': '283.960', 'end': '289.120', 'text': 'attending departmental meetings.   He'}, {'start': '286.520', 'end': '291.759', 'text': 'spent days on end in the lab'}, {'start': '289.120', 'end': '294.039', 'text': 'setting up the experiment without my help.'}, {'start': '291.759', 'end': '297.479', 'text': 'The fissure became more stable with each'}, {'start': '294.039', 'end': '299.960', 'text': 'attempt and she, she faded before'}, {'start': '297.479', 'end': '302.039', 'text': 'my eyes as if part of her essence'}, {'start': '299.960', 'end': '304.720', 'text': 'was being absorbed to the other'}, {'start': '302.039', 'end': '307.280', 'text': 'side.  You have to come now.  I have'}, {'start': '304.720', 'end': '309.919', 'text': 'managed to permanently stabilize the fissure'}, {'start': '307.280', 'end': '312.360', 'text': ".  They're going to cross, Marco.   They are"}, {'start': '309.919', 'end': '314.600', 'text': 'finally going to cross.  I ran to the'}, {'start': '312.360', 'end': '317.039', 'text': 'laboratory in a panic.  The'}, {'start': '314.600', 'end': '318.880', 'text': 'building was plunged into darkness,'}, {'start': '317.039', 'end': '321.840', 'text': 'except for the light emanating from the'}, {'start': '318.880', 'end': '323.960', 'text': 'basement where we had the equipment.  As I walked'}, {'start': '321.840', 'end': '326.080', 'text': 'down the stairs, I felt a tightness'}, {'start': '323.960', 'end': '329.479', 'text': 'in my chest, as if the air had'}, {'start': '326.080', 'end': '333.520', 'text': 'become thick, almost liquid, and there was a'}, {'start': '329.479', 'end': '336.280', 'text': 'smell impossible to describe, like ozone,'}, {'start': '333.520', 'end': '339.440', 'text': 'putrefaction, and something older than'}, {'start': '336.280', 'end': '341.479', 'text': 'time itself.  Elena, I will never forget what'}, {'start': '339.440', 'end': '344.120', 'text': 'I saw.  The accelerator was'}, {'start': '341.479', 'end': '346.199', 'text': 'overloaded, blue sparks were jumping from'}, {'start': '344.120', 'end': '348.319', 'text': 'the ducts.  In the center of the room'}, {'start': '346.199', 'end': '351.560', 'text': 'floated what I can only describe as'}, {'start': '348.319', 'end': '353.960', 'text': 'a wound in space, an'}, {'start': '351.560', 'end': '357.039', 'text': 'irregular fissure about 2 meters long that'}, {'start': '353.960', 'end': '359.400', 'text': 'emitted that sickly greenish light.  And'}, {'start': '357.039', 'end': '362.000', 'text': 'Elena was standing there in front of the'}, {'start': '359.400', 'end': '364.479', 'text': 'fissure with her arms outstretched.  But she'}, {'start': '362.000', 'end': '366.639', 'text': 'was no longer completely Elena.  His'}, {'start': '364.479', 'end': '369.240', 'text': 'silhouette seemed to blur at the'}, {'start': '366.639', 'end': '372.599', 'text': 'edges as if he were simultaneously'}, {'start': '369.240', 'end': '374.599', 'text': 'here and somewhere else.  His head was'}, {'start': '372.599', 'end': '376.520', 'text': 'tilted at an impossible angle,'}, {'start': '374.599', 'end': '379.639', 'text': 'staring at me with eyes that were no longer'}, {'start': '376.520', 'end': '382.120', 'text': 'human.  "You\'ve arrived just in time.'}, {'start': '379.639', 'end': '385.400', 'text': 'They want to meet you."  I took a step'}, {'start': '382.120', 'end': '387.840', 'text': 'back, tripping over a chair.  Elena,'}, {'start': '385.400', 'end': '392.599', 'text': 'this is crazy.  We have to close'}, {'start': '387.840', 'end': '395.720', 'text': "the gap.  Are you changing?  I don't"}, {'start': '392.599', 'end': '398.120', 'text': 'change, Marco, I improve.  They'}, {'start': '395.720', 'end': '400.800', 'text': 'have shown me that we are mere sketches of'}, {'start': '398.120', 'end': '403.560', 'text': 'what we could be.  Forms limited'}, {'start': '400.800', 'end': '406.479', 'text': 'by our three-dimensional perception,'}, {'start': '403.560', 'end': '409.039', 'text': 'but there are ways to transcend.  They are'}, {'start': '406.479', 'end': '412.080', 'text': 'impatient.  I promised them we could'}, {'start': '409.039', 'end': '415.440', 'text': 'help them cross.  They need'}, {'start': '412.080', 'end': '418.440', 'text': 'hosts, you understand?  Containers that'}, {'start': '415.440', 'end': '422.039', 'text': 'can adapt to this dimension.'}, {'start': '418.440', 'end': '425.319', 'text': "You can't leave now.  We need you."}, {'start': '422.039', 'end': '428.759', 'text': 'Marco, you were always the observer, the'}, {'start': '425.319', 'end': '431.000', 'text': 'witness.  Now you will be something more.  When I'}, {'start': '428.759', 'end': '432.840', 'text': 'regained consciousness, the fissure'}, {'start': '431.000', 'end': '435.960', 'text': 'had shrunk to a floating point of light'}, {'start': '432.840', 'end': '438.080', 'text': ', no bigger than a coin.'}, {'start': '435.960', 'end': '441.000', 'text': 'The lab was wrecked,'}, {'start': '438.080', 'end': '444.120', 'text': 'equipment melted, walls'}, {'start': '441.000', 'end': '446.400', 'text': 'blackened.  There was no trace of Elena.   I'}, {'start': '444.120', 'end': '448.720', 'text': 'should have run away.  I should have'}, {'start': '446.400', 'end': '451.759', 'text': 'alerted someone.  But that point of'}, {'start': '448.720', 'end': '454.479', 'text': 'light hypnotized me.  Elena.  But his'}, {'start': '451.759', 'end': '457.080', 'text': 'smile was too wide, his eyes'}, {'start': '454.479', 'end': '460.120', 'text': "too bright.  It hasn't"}, {'start': '457.080', 'end': '462.759', 'text': 'exactly made things easier for us.'}, {'start': '460.120', 'end': '466.879', 'text': 'Now we can manifest ourselves using their'}, {'start': '462.759', 'end': '469.639', 'text': 'memories, their appearance.  What are you?'}, {'start': '466.879', 'end': '472.120', 'text': 'We are observers like you.  The'}, {'start': '469.639', 'end': '475.319', 'text': 'difference is that we observe'}, {'start': '472.120', 'end': '479.360', 'text': "from agoons.  We've seen universes born and"}, {'start': '475.319', 'end': '482.240', 'text': 'die, and now we can finally'}, {'start': '479.360', 'end': '485.120', 'text': 'do more than just observe.  Elena always'}, {'start': '482.240', 'end': '487.960', 'text': 'said you were loyal, that you would follow her'}, {'start': '485.120', 'end': '491.440', 'text': "anywhere.  Don't be afraid, you'll soon"}, {'start': '487.960', 'end': '493.919', 'text': 'understand.  Everyone will understand.'}, {'start': '491.440', 'end': '496.400', 'text': 'That was three weeks ago.  I have written'}, {'start': '493.919', 'end': '499.159', 'text': 'this testimony in moments of lucidity, which are'}, {'start': '496.400', 'end': '501.960', 'text': 'increasingly rare.  I can feel them'}, {'start': '499.159', 'end': '504.919', 'text': 'inside me now expanding,'}, {'start': '501.960', 'end': '508.159', 'text': 'transforming me cell by cell.  I no longer'}, {'start': '504.919', 'end': '510.400', 'text': "dream, I don't need to because I live"}, {'start': '508.159', 'end': '512.839', 'text': 'in a state of expanded consciousness that'}, {'start': '510.400', 'end': '515.519', 'text': 'blurs the boundaries between wakefulness and'}, {'start': '512.839', 'end': '518.719', 'text': 'sleep.  Between this reality and the'}, {'start': '515.519', 'end': '521.919', 'text': 'infinite realities beyond, the rift'}, {'start': '518.719', 'end': '524.000', 'text': 'continues to grow.  Elena was right, we'}, {'start': '521.919', 'end': '525.760', 'text': 'were just observers looking through the'}, {'start': '524.000', 'end': '528.160', 'text': 'microscope of our limited'}, {'start': '525.760', 'end': '530.560', 'text': 'perception.  Now bacteria have'}, {'start': '528.160', 'end': '533.120', 'text': 'learned to look up and,'}, {'start': '530.560', 'end': '535.839', 'text': 'worse still, they have learned to open the'}, {'start': '533.120', 'end': '538.000', 'text': "microscope lid.  If you're seeing this, it"}, {'start': '535.839', 'end': '540.000', 'text': "'s probably too late.  The"}, {'start': '538.000', 'end': '542.399', 'text': 'fissure is no longer confined to the'}, {'start': '540.000', 'end': '545.160', 'text': 'laboratory.  It is everywhere,'}, {'start': '542.399', 'end': '547.240', 'text': 'invisible to the uninitiated eye.   It'}, {'start': '545.160', 'end': '549.120', 'text': "'s in the overly long shadows"}, {'start': '547.240', 'end': '551.360', 'text': 'at dusk, in the'}, {'start': '549.120', 'end': '553.640', 'text': 'distorted reflections of mirrors, in that'}, {'start': '551.360', 'end': '557.040', 'text': 'chill you feel when you think'}, {'start': '553.640', 'end': '560.600', 'text': 'someone is watching you.  Because someone or something is'}, {'start': '557.040', 'end': '562.800', 'text': "watching you, always has been, and now they've"}, {'start': '560.600', 'end': '565.720', 'text': 'finally found a way to'}, {'start': '562.800', 'end': '568.560', 'text': 'cross to the other side of the glass.  Look at yourself'}, {'start': '565.720', 'end': '571.000', 'text': 'in the mirror, look closely at your'}, {'start': '568.560', 'end': '575.920', 'text': "eyes.  Are you sure that what's"}, {'start': '571.000', 'end': '575.920', 'text': 'looking back at you is still you?'}]