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Episode 007: Dark Gifts

Episode 007: Dark Gifts

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 Thirteen hundred years before Christ was born, a man with claw marks down his back carries a sack of four mewling leopard cubs through a tear in reality and into another dimension. He collapses on the other side. His legs give out on the packed earth of a settlement called Andhakara. His vision greys. His wounds, wrapped in cloth and forest herbs by trackers who knew better than to ask questions, have reopened. Blood seeps through the bandages. People are shouting. Hands are gripping his arms to keep him upright. He manages one sentence before he loses consciousness: "The cubs. Take the cubs. The enclosures." Four lives, torn from their mothers in the Western Ghats of India, carried across the boundary between worlds by a man who nearly died to get them. They don't know where they are. They don't know that the forests of their birth are not merely miles away but dimensions removed. They know only that they are hungry, and frightened, and surrounded by scents that bear no relationship to anything they've ever experienced. They will change everything. That's the moment.
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