<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 150%; line-height: 116%;"><span style="color: #008040"><div style="text-align: center;">Tessa<br/><br/>Season One. Episode Two</div></span></span></span><br/><br/>"Door two million seven thousand, six hundred and seven. Please make your way to the Heart." That wasn't Echo speaking, where there more disembodied people in this house? Tessa shivered at the thought. She got dressed quickly. There clearly was an emergency, but at least it wasn't a fire or something.<br/><br/>"Found him," This time it was Echo, and who was she talking about? "Recalculating door exit parameters." What did that mean? "David, Tessa, please meet in the dining hall as quickly as possible." Tessa nodded, and finished getting dressed. She had no idea what she was going into so it was a pair of skinny jeans, and a black t-shirt. Tessa was braiding her hair as she stepped into the dining hall.<br/><br/>David was already there, in just his boxers, he greeted her with a smile and said, "There's breakfast if you want something." Tessa resisted laughing, and was able to control her face into something resembling a smile.<br/><br/>“Thanks.” Tessa said and grabbed a bagel. It was still warm, as if it had just got toasted. She slathered some spread on it and looked away as David pulled on the clothes the Caretaker handed him.<br/><br/>"What's going on?" David asked as he finished getting dressed.<br/><br/>"I have detected the location of a demon who is about to acquire the Law of Enlockment. Up until now, he has had free reign to capture the Laws. It stops now! David, Tessa, your task is to prevent him from stealing the Law from his safe place in Krackmora Castle. He is safely placed as one of the King's servants." Tessa nodded, despite her confusion.<br/><br/>“I'll pretend that made sense.” She mumbled around her food.<br/><br/>"Hold on, this is moving kind of fast. What is the Law of Enlockment?" David asked.<br/><br/>"The Law of Enlockment is one of the Eight Laws of the Lesser Seal. The Lesser Seal holds some very dangerous demons. In addition, the Law prohibits entry into the Hollow World, which holds the cage housing the Lesser Demons." Echo explained.<br/><br/>"Wait what are-"  David started to ask, but Echo cut him off<br/><br/>"I'm sorry David, but I don't have time to explain everything to you," Echo said. Tessa could tell Echo was worried. If she was an AI she was a highly advanced one. Something humans wouldn't have made, how old was she? Why was she here? Tessa shook her head, they had more urgent things to worry about than that.<br/><br/>"What are we supposed to do?" David asked, in a very serious tone. He seemed to pick up the same thing Tessa had. Something was very wrong.<br/><br/>"I'll explain on the way," The Caretaker said.<br/><br/>"On our way to where?" David asked - when the entire room suddenly starting moving up. "Holy crap!" David stumbled, catching himself on a chair. Tessa sat down on another chair surprised. Then the table itself was retracting down into the floor, Tessa grabbed a banana off of it before it was gone. In it's place, a large globe of soft glowing light rose. It was large, like something you might see at a museum. It was taller than they were. The entire room seemed to shifted and Tessa felt like she was in space. Stars spread out in every direction filling the room and beyond it. She let out a soft breath of air.<br/><br/>"Floor Two Million." The alarm voice said.<br/><br/>A door opened up onto a hallway. Tessa could feel heat blazing in the rooms. Each and David could feel heat emanating from it. He could see doors lining either side of the hall. Each looked like they had a different combination of fire and other theme.<br/><br/>"Note, there will be lava. Good luck." The Switchboard announced.<br/><br/>"You've got to be kidding." David said.<br/><br/>The Caretaker stood before them with a grim determination. "This will be your first mission. It will be dangerous, but you must always remember that you have a destiny unlike any other. You have a strength within you that we have not seen in thousands of years. Beyond these doors, is the door to the world you must go into. I will hand you a book with the most important information you require." He gave the book to Tessa. "Your weapons will appear beside you. They are not ordinary items, they will have special properties of their own, which the book will explain. Here is a sack with food and other essentials." This, he gave to David. The sack, was actually a tiny cloth bag that could fit in his pocket. David shrugged and put it away in his jeans.<br/><br/>David looked at Tessa, "I don't know if I can handle this," he said. Tessa wanted to add her own fear of the future to his comment. Her heart was racing and everything before them was terrifying.<br/><br/>"Time to go." The Caretaker said. He placed his hand gently on Tessa's shoulder and then gave her a slight push. She stepped into the hallway, her mouth drying up instantly. She hoped there was some water in that sack the Caretaker had given them.<br/><br/>“Two million seven thousand, six hundred and seven,” Tessa mumbled looking at the doors, some had plaques on them, others looked like they may have at some point or another. Each door was unique though. Finally she saw the door labeled two million seven thousand, six hundred and seven. The plaque looked like someone had scratched at it trying to get rid of the numbers, but the numbers had melted back. Tessa had the image of the crate at the end of the Indian Jones movie burning the information off of itself pop into her mind. She shook her head and started to reach for the handle.<br/><br/>Just as she was about to touch it she thought better of it, and gathered up some of her shirt in her hand and used that to protect her hand as she turned the handle. Tessa was thankful for that because through the shirt she could feel the heat trying to burn her skin. She hadn't even finished turning the handle and the door blasted open, Tessa screamed and ducked. When nothing happened she smiled and David and chuckled.<br/><br/>“Might be a little jumpy.” Her heart was pounding still. “I'll be honest,” She said still looking at David. “I'm actually completely terrified. We have no idea what is waiting for us, we don't even understand what we are, and yet here we are.” She waved her hand and gestured out beyond the door. They couldn't see far as there was thick fog, or smoke just beyond the door. What they could see though was rough and unforgiving looking terrain. “If you want, I'm all for just finding a way out of this house and forgetting this ever happened, but if you want to do this. I'll be there beside you okay.” She looked back to David from the place-beyond-the-door.