savetheearth | Eleventh Message [Audio

[Anthony's defaulting to his typical least-preferred method of communication for two reasons - text isn't quote-unquote enough for his peace of mind about now, and video is for another package of sub-reasons not ideal - at least to start with.

He doesn't have much of a voice for speaking on the phone. Still, the particular brand of apprehension he's got in it presently pulls it through to register relatively well - and he's loosely rehearsed this in his brain enough times for his tone to be evenly-cadenced and -pitched on the whole, if just a little hoarser than his usual natural, and restrained. All the same best to clear his mind on this, better sooner than later than never.]

Hello. -- This is Anthony. ...Janvier.

I -- spoke - about this before, but I -- ...thought I should - be clearer. About it. Now... -- I -- am - a zombie. So please -- ... [Trip here - second-guesses phrasing.] -- don't be alarmed - when I use the network. -- Anyone. -- It's... - unpleasant-looking -- I know. However -- I promise that it's safe.

-- I can, er -- [Also second-guesses and wrings and waffles over making this offer, but again, if wanted it'd be better sooner than later!] -- also show anyone, who'd like me to... if it may help.

... -- And if you're - one of the new ones - in this, er... - Transforming - hasn't been common... among pulses - or Echoes... -- It happens, but - it's -- normally in ways that aren't -- extreme -- like - hair and eyes changing color -- [Bumbles quickly and back to a higher pitch through this next as he has no idea if he's being presumptuous in saying it but it must be worth something - at least he'll not name names!] -- ...others are becoming "monster"-like but they're -- all - ..."safe", also.

Thank you. Uhm. -- And please excuse me.

[For any and every way in which that might have been a poor move - and alas what's done is done - he'll see if it'll have appeared to have at least been benign.]

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-- Was it a vision -- ? Or a - change...?

-- Or - something else... [Keeps his tone subdued, as he also doesn't want to press, and is preemptively mortified that even this active questioning istaking it too far - isn't forgetting that Xander's first-mentioned vision hadn't been a thing he'd wanted to revisit - but still he's still intrigued. If ever-more-morbidly in shade since enough time's passed for pulses to bring out their patterns as all the more fantastical and unpredictably strange.]

[There's no hesitation with his reply. This was something he wasn't exactly afraid of sharing, it wasn't like that memory.]

An ability. [A brief pause, but the sound of someone tapping their fingers on the siding of a laptop is heard. Even if he shouldn't be doing that right now.] ...I've been debating if I should show the whole network or not.

Edited (my brain is getting ahead of my fingers) 2013-09-27 07:19 (UTC)

It's - something people do often... [Said as a very mild, passive encouragement - thinks as he's saying it that it could be "off" even accidentally pushing an insinuation that whether or not it'd be unusual is anything to do with it.] -- If you don't mind it.

["...then there isn't a reason you shouldn't" would be completing the thought. Meanwhile, for himself, Anthony is, again, curious.]

I've seen a few demonstrations. [Then again, it was people showing off new items they got from the lights.] But, I think I need a bit more practice with it.

...Is it - "supernatural"...? [Asked relatively freely and smoothly - it's likely to sound innocent enough. He's in spite of himself tempted to ask whether it's anything to do with that vision of Xander's - that quality exhibited by his "other self" that had made him suspect that he isn't going to be human forever - but that doesn't seem to be the sort of skill it's suitable to freely discuss needing to "practice" use of.]

Yes, it is. [He's rather stern with his response, but he doesn't go in to further details about what it is. An exhale is heard.] ...The only issue is that the 'pulse' I got didn't give me any instructions. Seems to be a common thing around here.

[Then again, that was kind of obvious to state.]

Edited 2013-09-28 08:02 (UTC)

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