EPISODE 8: THE LEGACY ## CHAPTER 1: EIGHTEEN YEARS August 15th, 2017. The thirtieth anniversary of the Galleria incident. Jessica Chen-Morrison was fifty-seven years old. Her daughter Tamara was eighteen. And today was the day she had been dreading for almost two decades. "There's something I need to tell you," she said over breakfast. Tamara—named for a woman she had never met—looked up from her phone with the particular patience of a teenager who had been waiting for her mother to explain the strangeness she'd noticed all her life. "Is this about the trips to Cedar Valley? The coded journals? The meetings with Uncle Marcus and Uncle Brandon?" "You noticed." "Mom. I've noticed since I was twelve." --- ## CHAPTER 2: THE TRUTH Jessica told her everything. The Galleria. The creatures. The Devourer. Carlos and his lighter. Derek and his sacrifice. Tamara—the other Tamara—and her joining. She explained the network. Morrison's organization. The mouths around the world and the people who watched them. "So you're telling me that my entire childhood—the normal life you worked so hard to give me—was happening on top of a sleeping monster?" "Essentially, yes." "And the woman I'm named after is currently trapped inside that monster, keeping it contained?" "Along with Derek. They've been holding the seal for twenty-five years now." "And you want...