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Excuse me -- excuse me.

[It opens with voice for once, hasty and dry, but with actual words bringing the connection in.]

I'm sorry -- I don't...

[Starts over. Coughs. A moan solidifies into an "uhmmm". Tapers off and presses out through Anthony's nose.

Takes a breath to stall, gets the message together, and... speaks up again. Actually steadily - halting but articulate.]

...This is Anthony. Janvier, and I -- just -- thought I would say, um. In case, that -- I've been hallucinating, since -- fall. I think. And it -- uhh. ...Something happened last week - 'mmh not sure what's - happening. ...Exactly, but I.

[And that's where the organization of his train of thought ends.]

In case it -- might be interesting -- to someone.

[He'll put the fact that he's legitimately scared at where this might be going out of his head as far as possible in favor of what he's just said - it might be interesting to someone! There was that suggestion before that it could be due to his brain deteriorating, on one hand, and on the other, there'd been the boy who'd brought up "monsters" going insane, and the psychologist a while before, had touched on the idea of "treating" what had sounded to be that sort of thing.]

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I could -- ["I could say that" isn't the answer he wants to give at all, shakes it off, winces.] - I don't - [And forces it out, over-hasty, uncontrolledly high with a daft-sounding crack to falling on its face - ] - I was still in the apartment - !

I'm only -- [Dropped to wheezy.] -- I'm only - not -- sure what happened... while I was, I'm - I really am sorry, just don't know how to - say it -- ...

[HELLO EXTREMELY UNCOMFORTABLE PULSE...Kotetsu goes silent for a few, staring off into space with a vague grimace, then finally...]

Do you, uh....[he works his jaw, trying to find the words]

...Know if your past self might've...had their memories tampered, at some point?

[He sits put with... as much of his face as he can cast down in such a state. He's talking in tangles about anything he doubts he can get to a point on...

His shoulders and head snap in a reaction to Kotetsu speaking again.

And at the question his brow strains - shallow and clipping - ] I --

No - ! [Coughs, rapid head-shake.] I -- wouldn't - know if...!

[He's tangling things up again. Husky.] I don't -- know... [Which is distressing even with it as an unconfirmed possibility, but that's beside the point...] Uhmm - why -- ?

[With voice re-entering, if at a bit of a keen, no, why is he asking that, Kotetsu asked him a question first - ]

I mean, I don't --

...I -- don't know how I would know...! [Necessarily.]

Hey--easy.

[He puts up his hands, attempting to placate.]

I had a pulse about it, is all. I figured it was worth asking. It's okay if you don't know, that's just one possibility.

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