CHARLIE WAGNER – The Swarm – Leonie Benesch ⁓
Exiled to the Shetland Islands for failing to follow protocol, Charlie is well positioned to observe the strange events happening in the world’s oceans, but she reasons in unconventional ways and her superiors find her conclusions difficult to accept. After Charlie’s best friends go down with a research vessel off the coast of Iceland, she returns to Germany and manages to get the attention of Dr. Johanson, who makes her a part of a scientific mission to study the mysterious creatures behind the oceanic anomalies. Charlie is the first to make direct contact with the alien intelligence, though she does so against orders. She is physically transformed by The Yrr and deposited by the ocean on the island of Spitzbergen, redesigned, and impervious to the cold. As the first season ends, she is lying on a beach at night, staring happily at the sky with bright, newly blue eyes.
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