Episode 138 - A Little More Static

## A Little More Static

A black background with a bold white border. Within the border two anthropomorphic figures are depicted levitating, one in red and the other in white. The one in read is reaching for the others shoulder as if in comfort. Around them are white stars and below them a landscape and horizon with a cracked floor and an unknown jagged mass protruding from it. Below these images but still within the border the words "138. A LITTLE MORE STATIC" are depicted in white.

### Guest

 Kdin Jenzen as Danielle O'Hara

A heart beats in the North. There is no episode tonight; all you may hear is a little more static

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## Intro - A Little More Static

Nikignik narrates to the Dreamers someone who hovered in black water underneath ice, hoping that the Grackle would not be able to find them there. Nikignik breaks character, stating that there was too much and changes the opening perspective to Percy Reed discovering Riot Maidstone's dead body (see Episode 132 - Crossings). They change it again to Olivier Song waking up to warmth (see Episode 129 - Cats), and again to Yaretzi. They stop all together, telling the Dreamers that they knew it was not the time, but they were a coward.

He tells them that what was happening was unfolding all at once, they could view it as they did because of dream, but simultaneously Downing Hill Public Library burned (see Episode 134 - Libraries), and Clara Martin progressed North (see Episode 128 - Haunts), and Mort approached the Heart (see Episode 137 - Snares), and Riot drifted. He regrets interfering (see Episode 103 - Crossroads), that had he not Mort would not be here, and the rest of the group would have been killed by Creep (see Episode 120 - Wilds), and one great chance would be gone. He asks if they should put their hopes in Clara or Diggory Graves. What happened from that point onwards happened because of his hand, that if he narrated death to them, he had caused it. Perhaps Old Afterclaps had been wrong (see Episode 84 - Interference), if he had done nothing at least he would have been able to watch impartially. He was a foolish God for caring, and it would have been better had he not started the broadcast at all.

Danielle O'Hara speaks out asking if Nikignik could hear her (see Episode 136 - Faults). She asks Nikignik to let her know if the expedition North were okay. He tells her that it wasn't a good time, that some of her friends may never be coming back to Scoutpost Two, he wished he had better news for her, he wished they had lived. She asks if he could help them, and he grows frustrated, telling her that he was helping them, he had put their lives in jeopardy so that they might have a chance of their mission succeeding. He believed they would succeed but tells Danielle not to tell the Scoutpost of this. She asks why she got the feeling she was not going to be hearing from Nikignik again, he tells her that him speaking to her was a selfish action in a moment of weakness that he was sorry for.

She thanks him, telling him that the only reason she was free was because of him, and he'd taught her how to use dreams. He'd set everything in motion, and she tells him that she'd think of him, and hoped he'd think of her too. The two wish each other a farewell and Daniell leaves. Nikignik weeps, before chastising himself to pull it together, that for better or worse he had affected the Dreamer's world. He had ignored the signs of conspiracy to kill Marolmar (see Starcrossed Gods). He had touched it again in Cairo when someone had called to the stars and from loneliness he had decided to speak. And again with Amaryllis Ward.

Nikignik reminds the Dreamers that he'd warned them when they'd first ventured into the winter (see Episode 97 - Hallows; A Prologue), telling them that he did not want them to die, and he had done something about it, and by that choice he must now stay. He and the Dreamers must face the future together, one that they would both fight for. A Dreamer and a Nightmare, an audience and a friend, if he had saved them, he deserved no thanks. If he had doomed them, he was sorry, they knew he had tried.