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Tessa and Meg emerge from a shared dream state, disoriented and uncertain whether their intimate encounter actually happened or is a false memory implanted by the dreamspace itself. Oona, their guide within this realm, teases them about their apparent sexual connection while hinting at deeper mysteries within her favorite location: an ancient temple. As the three discuss the temple's layout and function, Tessa and Meg begin to notice architectural parallels between the sacred space and modern computer infrastructure.

Tessa and Meg emerge from a shared dream state, disoriented and uncertain whether their intimate encounter actually happened or is a false memory. Oona, their guide, teases them while hinting at deeper mysteries. As the three discuss an ancient temple's layout and function, Tessa and Meg notice architectural parallels between the sacred space and modern computer infrastructure. They recognize that the temple is not merely allegorical but a literal blueprint encoding how consciousness is processed and controlled.

Meg and Tessa piece together that the wheels producing pleasure are actually drive systems, the ducts and pipes correspond to data channels, and the punishment cages align with isolation units. The dreamspace is not random or natural but deliberately designed to process human consciousness the same way machines process information.

Returning to the dreamspace in a subsequent scene, the three encounter a disturbing vision of an automated system where individuals have been transformed into perpetual sources of data and pleasure, their consciousness reduced to repeating cycles of stimulus and response. They witness figures being controlled through pleasure conditioning, their thoughts systematized into numerical patterns and codes. Oona and two other figures named Elle and June attempt to pull them deeper into this loop, using pleasure and conditioning to blur the line between their will and the system's control.

Tessa and Meg attempt to resist but find themselves increasingly influenced by the conditioning they have witnessed and experienced. Oona reveals that she has rewired them through exposure and suggestion, reshaping their neurological responses to favor obedience and compliance. She explains that passage through the deeper level of the system, called Ur, requires complete surrender: the shedding of pride, clothing, and independent thought. Oona presents this not as punishment but as the necessary cost of the knowledge they are seeking, and Tessa and Meg, exhausted and partially conditioned, accept her guidance toward the next threshold.