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Bring me the livers.

Mother of Creation and Destruction, you are the Earth and we are your children.

I saw something out there.

Someone.

There was something wrong with his face.

Mother, we ask your forgiveness.

We join your servant in traveling to your bosom.

-We don't make fire in daylight. -They're looking for me.

-They would've been here already. -I heard him, over the radio.

I'll take you tomorrow.

What?

Where's his mother?

I'm sorry.

You don't have to.

Lily was a chemical engineer.

At first she said her blood... was hurting.

Later it was like she was being eaten up from the inside.

Benzene.

When the doctors gave up,

Lily wanted to come back here, where we spent our honeymoon.

Where he was conceived.

And then?

Then I met her.

Who?

God.

Thank you.

-Are you going to keep quiet? -Mm...

If they get in, stay against the wall... They're blind.

Who?

Let him.

Get the blood off her.

Bring the blood. Burn the rest.

And that is your god?

She was here long before the apes started dreaming of gods.

-Do you believe that? -Bedtime.

Pretty.

-Monster. -What?

-Monster! -Keep your devilish devices away from us!

Apparitions! Abominations!

Out! Go!

Time to go.

-Dad! -No!

It's okay.

I could always come visit you.

Let me take him with me. Please.

So if this thing is under the forest, why do you live here?

Why aren't you guys infected?

-Hey! -But we are.

Hey! Barend?

This is his.

This belongs to my boss.

Wait...

That's where they live!

This is madness.

No!

You want him to become one of them?

We can help him.

Come.

I know you have medicine.

Please.

Where did your dad go?

To pray.

And your mother?

She called me her little monkey.

She must've loved you very much.

Loved...

Loved...

Love...

Loved.

Loved.

She lives in the forest.

What?

She lives in the forest now...

My mother.

I'll show you.

No...

You know there's a whole world out there, right?

You could learn to read, to write...

You could work with me.

You could become a game ranger, work with animals.

Anything you like.

Drive a truck.

Drink beer.

And there are girls.

That's a pity.

Dad says they're all gonna die.

Eat it!

Are you ready?

I'm staying.

There she is.

We also started writing a manifesto once.

But we were... high.

And we weren't very clever.

Not as clever as you.

Nature is scripture.

"For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world

are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made."

I think we're a bit beyond that.

Are we?

Seeing is believing.

"If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed,

ye might say unto this sycamine tree,

Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea."

How will you ever convince anyone...

I don't need to convince anyone!

I want to understand.

"Understand"?

Look at your world...

The creatures are crawling in their cages of shit,

clinging to dream worlds on silicon screens.

You swarm... like maggots around your neon towers

and multiply exponentially in the glow of the whores and false goddesses

dancing on the walls of the neon towers in the fire of infinite explosions!

All you know is excess and devouring and more, and more, and more!

Faster and faster over the abyss and into the very fires of hell

where the smoke and brimstone will spew forth from your mouths...

Look...

Look how you congratulate yourselves on your achievements,

your tremendous victories...

The internal combustion engine, the nuclear bomb...

Democracy.

The willing surrender of the highest decision-making power to every zygote

who won the grand victory of fertilization. And look... Look where that got you.

Look at humanity choosing its own demise time and time again!

Hurrah for your free will! Hurrah!

A band of apes climbing up the burning mountain

to escape the floodwaters that want to engulf them!

A swarm of locusts swirling around the Earth,

faster and faster until the atmosphere goes up in a ring of fire!

And you think you can save them?

No...

No, no, no.

"In those days, men will seek death but will not find it,

they will long to die but death will elude them."

If you love them so much...

rather wish for mercy, a swift end to the Anthropocene.

Show me.

Where was I?

In the dreamtime.

How long was I out for?

Fifteen minutes, maybe.

It felt like days.

What did she tell you?

You heard her.

You know what she wants.

No.

But he's innocent.

I begged...

I implored...

We must get away from here.

Hey, come on. We have to go.

Son?

What are you doing?

Haven't I always protected you?

What are you waiting for, hm?

It all ends the same way.

Do you know where she's taking you?

-She's going to sell you as a slave. -He's lying.

They'll work you till the flesh falls from your bones, and then they'll eat you.

That's what they do.

Let's go, Stefan.

Is that what you told him, huh?

What you wrote in your manifesto?

-Please, that's my life. -I'll tell the whole world about you!

She'll never let you leave.

Stefan?

There's nothing out there for you, son.

Stefan...

Please.

Abandon me now, and your mother died for nothing.

-You murdered her. -She came here to die!

Remember our big journey, Stefan.

Our pilgrimage.

It's time. All of us, very soon, into the world.

-Where are we going, Dad? -To make a sacrifice.

But we haven't brought anything, Dad.

God will provide.

She has chosen you, my son.

Your body... our message.

It's time for your pilgrimage.

Because I love the world so much...

Dad?

We must...

We must obey her.

Please, Dad...

Stefan!

I knew you would not forsake me.

You've been sent.

No, Dad!

"And thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies."

We have to obey her!

It was just a test, son.

I would never...

We must believe.

Do it!

Come on.

Please...

Leave me here.

Go out...

into the world.

Show me mercy...

Please.

I beg you.

Love...

Loved.