It unrolls itself and ingests the branchial basket. When Apollodorus unrolls it, Cleopatra emerges, much to Pothinos' surprise. Locke unrolls part of the reel and recognizes Dr. Marvin Candle. In this device, a sheet of paper gradually unrolls over a cylinder. The word "thangka" means "thing that one unrolls" in Classical Tibetan.