Jonas Berg

Threshold Institute · Staff record

Name

Jonas Berg

Role

Night technician of the sealed level

Years

Years 5 to 46

First file

T-005 Echo

Last file

T-052 Mutant crawler

Jonas Berg was a night technician of the sealed level. In year 5 the night staff heard him call from the east corridor for a hand with a door, while he was at his post elsewhere (T-005). A cleaner, Irja Palm, went to look and did not come back (T-005). What had called was the echo, the first threshold that learnt from the staff instead of only hunting them (T-005).

From then on his voice was on a list kept by the night shift supervisor, and a call in it was checked against his post before anyone moved (T-005). Berg asked for the day shift and was refused (T-005). In year 17 he asked to test the quiet room with the echo itself. He called inside the room in his own voice, in the words the echo had used in year 5, and it played nothing back for the full hour. "It has heard me every night for twelve years," he said for the record. "That is the first room it could not hear me in." (T-012).

The replay room showed him to himself, drinking coffee in the old canteen at nineteen (T-015). In year 30, when the choir called the surveyors by name beyond the rift, Tomas Rehn went to Berg for what he had learnt: "When you hear your name, you are already being hunted. Do not answer. Do not go and look." (T-029). In year 46 Rehn still set a new creature beside Jonas Berg's voice when he wrote it up (T-052).

Papers under their name

• Addendum T-005-A: night log of J. Berg, Year 5, months 10 and 11 (extract), in T-005 Echo
• Addendum T-012-A: test log, J. Berg and Dr S. Kader, Year 17, month 2, day 9, in T-012 Quiet room
• Addendum T-029-2: interview with night technician Jonas Berg, Year 30, month 8, day 2. Interviewer: T. Rehn, in T-029 Choir

In the case files

Jonas Berg is named in 5 case files. The last column says where in each file.

Part I: The tear

File	Found	Where named
T-005 Echo	Year 5, month 11, day 28	Containment procedures, Discovery, Addendum T-005-A, Addendum T-005-B

Part II: The rooms turn

File	Found	Where named
T-012 Quiet room	Year 17, month 1, day 30	Addendum T-012-A
T-015 Replay room	Year 21, month 10, day 1	Discovery

Part III: Going through (the places and creatures)

File	Found	Where named
T-029 Choir	Year 30, month 7, day 15	Addendum T-029-2

Part IV: The planet and the pollution

File	Found	Where named
T-052 Mutant crawler	Year 46, month 6, day 17	Addendum T-052-3