Captain Callista Monteiro led the rescue and recovery team sent from Site 24 to contain the situation at Sector H.

Dr. Bartus: Captain Monteiro, can you describe for me the events that you witnessed upon your team's arrival at Sector H?

Monteiro: I will do my best. I will warn you that my memories decrease in clarity at a certain point. An effect of whatever caused this situation, I assume.

Dr. Bartus: Of course. You're not only the only one to experience that sort of effect. Just tell me what you can.

Monteiro: We arrived at Sector H at approximately 9:30 am. I was in the MCV , and as soon as we came to a stop, I knew something was wrong.

Dr. Bartus: How so?

Monteiro: There was a sense of…wrongness. I think we all felt it. It was…it was like the sudden realization that you're dreaming, except I knew I wasn't. I felt stretched thin, like everything that made me the person I am was being pulled apart at the seams. Not physically of course.

Dr. Bartus: Mentally?

Monteiro: Not…not quite, no. But you know that already, don't you? I can tell.

Dr. Bartus: I have to do my best not to lead you.

Monteiro: Yeah, I get it. It was like I suddenly knew I was made out of atoms. Not just in a distant, science fact sort of way. I knew and felt what I was made of, and it was very unpleasant.

Dr. Bartus: What happened after you stopped?

Monteiro: We were all dealing with that bizarre feeling I think, right? Yeah. It was maybe just a moment or so before I began to give my first order after arrival. The main door opened. Are you familiar with the main entrance of Sector H, Dr. Bartus?

Dr. Bartus: I've seen photographs, but I've not been there in person.

Monteiro: Ok. It's not really that important anyway. But, yeah, the door opened, and something walked out.

Dr. Bartus: Describe it for me.

Monteiro: It had the body of a man. Completely nude. It had the head of an owl though. An actual, real owl, you could see in the way it looked around at us. And it was impossibly tall.

Dr. Bartus: How did it exit the facility, given its height?

Monteiro: That's harder to explain. This is when it gets difficult for me.

Dr. Bartus: That's okay, just do your best, Captain Monteiro.

Monteiro: From what I was seeing, and from what made sense with how physics works to most people…it was probably around two meters tall. But it was really much, much taller.

Dr. Bartus: Can you elaborate?

Monteiro: Eh, it's not an easy thing to think about. I think you already have some idea though. Your face betrays you a bit, doctor.

Dr. Bartus: Perhaps. Try anyways.

Monteiro: I think it was probably around sixty meters tall. It's not like we were seeing an illusion or even a run-of-the-milll visual anomaly. There was this feeling of bizarre…charisma, I guess? And it made me feel like I could understand. My puny human brain was understanding something that I can't put into words. The thing's height wasn't about tallness; it was a representation of some aspect of itself that we just can't comprehend. I think that's what its wings were, too.

Dr. Bartus: It had wings?

Monteiro: Visually, yes. It had large, gray wings. But like its height, I think they were just some aspect of this entity that was beyond what I could understand. Ugh.

Dr. Bartus: This is hurting you, I'm sorry.

Monteiro: It's okay, I know this is important. Can we try to be quick, though?

Dr. Bartus: Yes, of course Captain. Be quick, but be precise.

Monteiro: The entity didn't look at us for long. It only said one thing, so loudly that we could hear it in the MCV, even from ninety meters away. "Amalgam is komplet. Quebre each other." And then it wasn't there anymore, and I couldn't even say for certain that it was really there in the first place.

Dr. Bartus: Quebre…is that Portuguese?

Monteiro: Yeah. It told us to break each other.

Dr. Bartus: And is that what instigated the violence?

Monteiro: Yes. Most of my unit began to attack and kill each other. I wasn't affected of course; just one of the reasons why they made me captain. But nobody in the MCV…they should've been…it has a device…

Dr. Bartus: I know, we believe it was sabotaged.

Monteiro: What? Nobody told me. Who? Who the fuck would do that?

Dr. Bartus: We believe we know who did it, though I can't divulge that information to you at this time. I hope you can understand.

Monteiro: Yeah. Yeah I get it. Can you do me one favor though, doctor?

Dr. Bartus: If I can, I will.

Monteiro: Have someone else notify the families of Nygaard and Tekin. I can handle the others, but not them. I can't do that.

Dr. Bartus: I mean, I don't think that will be a problem, but I just don't…oh. Oh, yes. Of course. I'll personally make the calls if I have to, Captain Monteiro. You have my word.

Monteiro: Thank you.

Dr. Bartus: I do have one last question for you, if that's alright.

Monteiro: The music?

Dr. Bartus: Yes. What did it sound like to you?

Monteiro: It was the loudest noise I've ever heard. Of course, I don't think we were hearing it with our ears. Not really. It was like ten thousand out of tune harpsichords loudly fucking a pod of screaming whales. I don't say it like that to be humorous. But you know, doctor, it wasn't really music.

Dr. Bartus: It wasn't?

Monteiro: No. It was words. Something was speaking.

Dr. Bartus: This…this is the first I've heard of this. What do you think it was saying?

Monteiro: Nothing that makes any sense to me. Others might've heard it differently. But…what I heard was something like "Eu nasci again. Jeg am Beleth."

Dr. Bartus: I understand the second part. What does the first mean?

Monteiro: Keeping in mind that I'm trying to interpret what a screaming entity said in a mix of the three languages I speak, I believe it said "I am born again. I am Beleth." I think somebody in Sector H fucked up big time.

Dr. Bartus: No, we believe this was intentional.