Interlude
The Organization For The Advanced Mind
Assigned psychotherapist: Dr. N. Levy
Assigned psychiatrist: Dr. P. Bell
Abstract
What follows is an early, but vitally important, collection of writings and drawings from Subject 3478, assigned female at birth and registered as Olive Elaine McLeod—a gifted psychic and a former Asset to The Organization.
The Asset was incredibly self-reflective even in her earliest creative expressions.
In the blue folder attached are some of the first papers in our collection attributed to McLeod.
There are crayon and later, coloured pencil drawings of events that had not yet come to pass at the time of the picture’s creation, only for the event to take place at a later date.
This clearly demonstrated the Asset’s talent for foresight.
In fact, many of her drawings in our collection have still not occurred, according to reports from our researchers.
Those drawings may be found in the red folder.
As a body of work, the material ranges from the seemingly innocent—such as many versions of what appears to be a party with a girl in a pink dress and a man in a red cape (see images 215-243) or the ocean (see images 475-522)—to the disturbing, such as image 1420, the start of a series of drawings of the mountain Megiddo which occupied the Asset’s mind for almost a year.
Image 1420 depicts flames in the sky over the mountain, while below adults cleave children to themselves as fire rains down to the ground.
This is not the only drawing which depicts what can only be interpreted as terror in the eyes of children.
The skies of fire, described by our Analysts as natural phenomena such as volcanic eruptions or a meteor impacting the earth’s surface, were described by Olive’s elder brother, Thomas, in completely different terms.
Thomas saw the footprint of man-made technology—everything from drone strikes to the deployment of nuclear weapons.
Natural or man-made, it is chilling that these drawings are of Megiddo, the biblical setting for the event known widely as “Armageddon.” The McLeod parents had no recollection of their daughter, at age seven, ever reading religious texts related to Armageddon, and as they were of no faith and were raising their children the same way, the Armageddon pictures in the red folder remain unexplained—though we do have a position in our Organization dedicated to keeping a close watch on the site in and around Megiddo, anticipating the days of fire and death in the drawings.
As it is yet unknown how far into the future the Asset can see, it is also unknown if these events will happen in ten years, a hundred, or even a thousand.
This has led some in The Organization to question at what point does foresight become prophecy?
Is Olly McLeod the second prophet to be in our midst, after our esteemed and great leader, Edward Evans?
When asked about the drawings under observation, the Asset had no explanation for the phenomenon, other than she had to draw what she “saw” and that sometimes those things “came true.” However, she was disturbed by the Megiddo series of images and repeatedly claimed she had no deeper understanding of them than we did.
During what would be our final session with her, she rather curtly asked us, “Where do the pictures come from? The heart, the mind, or the soul? You need to ask yourselves those questions. I don’t know any more about it than you do.
I’m seven.” (See: copies of select audio and video recordings in this box, on the enclosed USB drive).
The Asset’s parents were pleased with the compensation their daughter was receiving to participate in our research, so much so that they enrolled her older brother, Thomas James McLeod.
As an Asset, he proved uncooperative and hostile toward our methods.
At eighteen years of age, he was able to understand our questions and replied in a fashion that made us believe he was as intelligent as his younger sister, with similar psychic potential.
It was tragic that this Organization only had scant years with him before he and his parents were killed so senselessly in a car wreck—Olive being the only survivor.
Asset Olive Elaine McLeod was lost to us in both her grief and severe head injuries, subconsciously constructing a psychic brick wall around many of her capabilities and memories, including her time with us.
It remains unknown to us to what extent Olive even knows of her own abilities, having chosen as an adult to pursue a rather mundane career.
The wall around her mind is certainly robust, unbreakable by even our strongest Assets whom we have occasionally deployed to assess her current potential.
Her former psychotherapist, Dr. N. Levy, posits that unless Olive makes a serious effort to access her abilities, the wall will hold—perhaps for the rest of her life.
Her former psychiatrist, Dr. P. Bell, agrees, but also recommends she submit to a rigorous regime of experimental pharmaceuticals to augment any such reemergence of both her memories and talents.
What follows the drawings in this collection—see green folder containing The Mind of an Olive!
—is an excerpt containing the most insight we ever managed to get directly into the Asset’s mind without psychic interference.
Despite her young age when she began writing her diary, we hold this document in highest regard, as in Olive’s case, her writing was abandoned as quickly as it started.
This serves as a reminder to those of us involved in the study that prophet or not, she is still a deeply emotional and often flighty child.