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Tomas Rehn

Threshold Institute · Staff record

Tomas Rehn
Name
Tomas Rehn
Role
Technician from year 11; led the first survey and the retrieval runs; head of research; keeper of the catalogue
Years
Year 11 on
First file
T-008 Dark room

Tomas Rehn was a supply runner of nineteen, in his first month as a technician, when he was sent to the last storeroom of the east wing with a crate of lamp batteries and saw the beam of his hand lamp stop two tiles out (T-008). He walked the room on a rope with his eyes shut, counting his steps, and Director Varga moved him from supplies to a survey of the building (T-008). The dark room was the first threshold that was a place (T-008), and Rehn went on to learn each room that followed it.

He timed the turns of the gravity room over nine days (T-009), stepped through the elsewhere door six times before he believed it (T-010), went into the cold room for a minute at a time (T-013) and brought a lost guard's helmet down from the ceiling of the upside-down room (T-014). When a storeroom was measured larger inside than its walls, he wrote in the margin of its file: "Then the somewhere else has shelves, and stores, and someone to stamp them." It was the first time anyone at the Institute put in writing that something lay beyond the rift to be reached (T-011). Director Lind gave him the training of the first walkers (T-014), and when the ministry granted the means in year 23 he was named to lead the first survey (T-016).

In year 24 he took the first survey through the rift and set the anchor where it arrived, and his field log was the first account of the shifting land (T-017). He led the seventh survey into the hanging moment (T-022) and the tenth to the well, where Oskar Nyberg became the first surveyor lost beyond the rift. "The decision to let him go near the rim was mine," Rehn wrote (T-024). Between surveys he interviewed the people who came back: Lina Dahl after the twin rifts (T-018), Ruth Abel after the tether (T-028), and Jonas Berg when the choir began to call the surveyors by name (T-029).

Anneli Sund was his closest colleague. When her expedition went silent in year 32 he led three searches for her, and the third found the hollow walking in Petr Lask's gear (T-031). He kept Lask's log on his desk and asked for one more search (T-031). He turned that search back himself after the cache mimic and the shard swarm, wrote that he thought the way Sund went was guarded, and asked that no more long surveys be sent (T-032, T-033). He went out with the retrieval runs that were sent instead (T-034, T-036). He used the clock to take back a shot fired at the edge of the listening field (T-037), asked the compass once for Anneli Sund and watched its needle swing down (T-039), and believed for an hour that a key found in a lone door was hers (T-041).

By year 41 he was head of research (T-043). He tested what the relief flight brought home and found that it could not be held (T-047), and at the end of year 46 he reported to the Directorate that nothing the Institute had stopped it (T-053). When the mask came out of the rift he entered an objection under the directive to widen it and asked for a second team first; the widening was given a date the same day (T-054). He signed for the catalogue and the radio when they went out with the last of the staff (T-055). He wrote the last file himself, at a survivors' home on one of the islands, with the catalogue in a crate under a bunk: "I keep the catalogue. What I find out here I will number after this one." (T-056).

Papers under their name

Section titled “Papers under their name”

In the case files

Section titled “In the case files”

Tomas Rehn is named in 48 case files. The last column says where in each file.

Part II: The rooms turn

File Found Where named
T-008 Dark room Year 11, month 5, day 6 Discovery, Addendum T-008-A, Addendum T-008-C
T-009 Gravity room Year 14, month 3, day 22 Discovery, Addendum T-009-B
T-010 Elsewhere door Year 14, month 11, day 3 Discovery, Addendum T-010-A, Addendum T-010-B
T-011 Bigger inside Year 15, month 8, day 2 Discovery, Addendum T-011-B
T-013 Cold room Year 18, month 12, day 5 Discovery
T-014 Upside-down room Year 20, month 7, day 13 Discovery, Addendum T-014-B
T-015 Replay room Year 21, month 10, day 1 Discovery
T-016 The watchers Year 23, month 4, day 27 Discovery, Addendum T-016-B

Part III: Going through (the places and creatures)

File Found Where named
T-017 Shifting land Year 24, month 3, day 9 Discovery, Addendum T-017-1
T-018 Twin rifts Year 24, month 8, day 17 Discovery, Addendum T-018-1
T-019 Slow bubble Year 25, month 2, day 4 Discovery, Addendum T-019-1, What followed
T-020 Fast bubble Year 25, month 2, day 11 Discovery, Addendum T-020-2, What followed
T-021 Upward rain Year 25, month 10, day 3 Addendum T-021-1, Addendum T-021-2
T-022 The hanging moment Year 26, month 4, day 21 Discovery, Addendum T-022-1, Addendum T-022-2
T-023 Listening field Year 26, month 11, day 2 Addendum T-023-2
T-024 The well Year 27, month 5, day 14 Discovery, Addendum T-024-1, Addendum T-024-2, Addendum T-024-3
T-025 The copied camp Year 28, month 1, day 19 Addendum T-025-2
T-026 Trader Year 28, month 9, day 6 Addendum T-026-2, What followed
T-027 Statue Year 29, month 3, day 27 What followed
T-028 Tether Year 29, month 12, day 8 Addendum T-028-1, Addendum T-028-2
T-029 Choir Year 30, month 7, day 15 Discovery, Addendum T-029-2, Addendum T-029-3
T-030 Clockwork Year 31, month 4, day 2 Discovery, Addendum T-030-2, Addendum T-030-3
T-031 Hollow Year 32, month 9, day 30 Discovery, Addendum T-031-1, Addendum T-031-3
T-032 Cache mimic Year 33, month 2, day 14 Discovery, Addendum T-032-1
T-033 Shard swarm Year 33, month 2, day 15 Discovery, Addendum T-033-2

Part III: Going through (the objects)

File Found Where named
T-034 Pale Lantern Year 34, month 3, day 11 Discovery
T-035 Still Watch Year 34, month 9, day 2 Addendum T-035-A, Addendum T-035-B
T-036 Mending Jar Year 35, month 4, day 19 Discovery, Addendum T-036-B
T-037 Rewind Clock Year 36, month 1, day 27 Discovery, Addendum T-037-A, Addendum T-037-B
T-038 Tomorrow Radio Year 36, month 10, day 5 Discovery
T-039 Wish Compass Year 37, month 6, day 14 Addendum T-039-B, What followed
T-040 Blood Coin Year 38, month 2, day 3 Discovery
T-041 Skeleton Key Year 39, month 5, day 22 Discovery, Addendum T-041-B
T-042 Endless Battery Year 40, month 8, day 30 Addendum T-042-A

Part IV: The planet and the pollution

File Found Where named
T-043 Alien skitter Year 41, month 3, day 14 Addendum T-043-2
T-044 Alien spitter Year 41, month 3, day 20 Addendum T-044-1
T-045 Burrower Year 42, month 7, day 2 Addendum T-045-2
T-046 Drifter Year 43, month 1, day 9 Addendum T-046-1, What followed
T-047 The pollution Year 43, month 9, day 4 Addendum T-047-2, What followed
T-048 Infected Year 44, month 2, day 11 Addendum T-048-2, What followed
T-049 Toxic wolf Year 45, month 5, day 8 Addendum T-049-2, Addendum T-049-3
T-050 Toxic boar Year 45, month 8, day 30 Discovery, Addendum T-050-3, Addendum T-050-4
T-051 Mutant brute Year 46, month 4, day 3 Addendum T-051-1, Addendum T-051-3, What followed
T-052 Mutant crawler Year 46, month 6, day 17 Addendum T-052-2, Addendum T-052-3
T-053 Mutant sludger Year 46, month 10, day 2 Discovery, Addendum T-053-2, Addendum T-053-3, Addendum T-053-4

Part V: The widening

File Found Where named
T-054 Porcelain Mask Year 47, month 6, day 21 Addendum T-054-1, Addendum T-054-2, Addendum T-054-4
T-055 Warden Year 48, month 2, day 9 Addendum T-055-4

Part VI: After the fall

File Found Where named
T-056 Toxic mutant Year 48, month 9, day 30 Written by

In the journal

Section titled “In the journal”

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