Control (Eng)

"Control" is the second episode of the webcomic Foribus Mentis Saga 6

## Summary

After meeting Adalie, Marcel watches as a teacher is chatting with a student in a room down the hall. Marcel is startled when the teacher reaches out her arm and pierces the girl's forehead with her finger. As if the girl was made of some kind of disembodied substance.

Then, Adalie notices her friend Jenny walking past her and Adalie waves to her. Immediately, Jenny begins to cry as she says she is sorry for what she did and that she should be at the bottom of the food pyramid. Adalie doesn't understand what her friend is talking about and asks her to explain what she means by that. Instead of doing that, Jenny walks away crying while Adalie says she's always been this dramatic.

Marcel notices that everyone at the university is acting strange. They have scattered looks and talk incoherently. He proposes to Adalie to go to investigate, but she hasn't seen anything strange and doesn't believe him so Marcel bets her ten dollars that something strange is going on. Adalie agrees and they both slowly approach the door where the teacher was. Suddenly, they are attacked by Jenny, who is still controlled by the entity's powers. Adalie laments that she is going to have to pay Marcel ten dollars. She starts yelling at them saying that they must die in order to start making amends. They then begin to run through the halls of the university using all the elements around them to try to avoid being caught by the students who continue to shout incoherently. One of the students shouts that *they must change reality from fantasy, while another shouts that fantasy must be moderated by reality*.

At that, the teacher discovers them and with a threatening walk asks them from afar if they see what she sees and if they know what she knows. Marcel and Adalie are paralyzed with fear now that they know the truth and do not answer. The teacher's body begins to disfigure and spread out like the branches of a tree. The creature tells them that the seeds of evil have been planted and that the roots will bury themselves in their cerebral cortexes. Marcel returns to find another thought capsule in his pocket with an idea and gives it to Adalie. Later she is captured by another group that attacked her by surprise and becomes controlled just like the rest. When the whole university has Marcel cornered while they yell at him that he is a scumbag and should die, the thought capsule Adalie had bursts and for a few seconds she can think clearly, free from the mind control, she takes a thick metal folded chair and hits the teacher in the head who expels the entity for a few minutes. While she is unconscious, the students come to and wonder what is going on and then disperse. Marcel and Adalie corner the entity who threatens to return to possess other bodies. However, they kick it until it disappears.

Finally, Adalie can't believe everything that has just happened but that if it hadn't been for Marcel, she would have been under the creature's control, Marcel tells her that if it hadn't been for her, he would have been part of the mind controlled students army too. The two of them make a deal to investigate what is going on in Montreal and to help each other.