In Her Eyes
Two months of nonstop work had left me exhausted. I asked my director for a two-day leave of absence so that I could go on a short trip and clear my mind. He agreed, but only on the condition that I take a pair of eyes along with me. I accepted, and he took me to pick them up from the Control Center.
In Her Eyes
Firstly, any transmission from space reaches its destination with some degree of delay. Even transmissions from the Moon have a lag of two seconds. The lag time is even longer with communications from the Asteroid belt. Yet somehow her answers seemed to arrive without any perceptible delay. This meant that she had to be in LEO: low-Earth orbit. With no need for a transfer mid-journey, returning to the surface from there would be cheap and quick. So why would she want me to carry her eyes on a vacation?
The grassland stretched all the way to the horizon. Behind me, dark green forests covered the Tian Shan mountain range. The highest peaks were capped with silvery snow. I took out her eyes and put them on.
It was daytime when I awoke. Dark clouds covered the sky, shrouding the Taklamakan in a light drizzle. The eyes were still hanging from the tree, mist covering the lenses. I carefully wiped them clean and put them on. I assumed that after watching the Moon for an entire night she would be fast asleep by now. However, I heard her sobbing quietly. A wave of pity overwhelmed me.
A terranaut once described the experience. Whenever she and her fellow crew members shut their eyes, they would see the onrushing magma gather behind them, pressing down and sealing them in all over again. The image followed them like a phantom, and it made the voyagers aware of the massive and ever-increasing immensity of matter pressing against their ship. This sense of claustrophobia was difficult for those on the surface to comprehend, but it tortured each and every terranaut.
Because the plot of this deranged show has made me lose more sleep than I'd like to admit (enter lucid dreaming and/or astral projection joke), I analyzed the show's promotional poster for Easter eggs. And lo and behold, the Rob-of-it-all is right there, staring at us in our cold, dead eyes.
Now if you're wondering, Is that it? No! Draw your eyes to the bottom of the Netflix poster and you'll see a faint figure walking into the woods, a mysterious place that gets referenced often throughout the series. It's Rob! And here it is, the Easter egg that should've told us everything we needed to know: The green "astral soul" is literally snaking its way out of Rob's body and circling Louise's eye. Rob is literally behind Louise's eye...a.k.a. the final twist at the end of the show. Furthermore, the green aura lingers over David, because Rob is so obsessed with keeping his eyes on David and keeping him all to himself.
During this very visit, Adele went on to reveal that she slept through the fatal fire as she was astral projecting at the time. She then taught Rob how to astral project, not realizing he'd abuse the ability. Rob, who had fallen in love with Adele's life, including her relationship with David, used his newfound power to switch bodies with her. So, in actuality, it was really Rob behind Adele's eyes.
A couple of weeks later, she returned home to Nebraska, still feeling continued irritation and a "foreign body sensation" in both eyes. Another ophthalmologist examination diagnosed her with mild bilateral papillary conjunctivitis, but wasn't able to detect any additional nematodes.
That fourth worm was the last ever found in the woman's eyes, and for that she might consider herself lucky. At least, in the only previous human case of the same infection, 14 worms were discovered lurking in the 26-year-old patient's eyes.
"God does not want you to be scared or confused," Muthart said. "I want to spread my story and I trust in God to do that for me. It took me to get my eyes out of my head to see anything good happening to me." 041b061a72