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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So it's official, huh?

Almost -- my... [Little pause - voice drops force just a little to carry less of the sort of dread he's feeling in putting it to phrasing like this.] ... -- organs are not dead - completely -- ...but my flesh is.

-- It doesn't feel that bad.

Congratulations on coming out of the closet.

If anyone gives you crap, lemme know and I'll beat them up, kay?

[[He's pretty sure Anthony will never call in that promise, but he does mean it.]]

Geez.

Sorry to hear that, man. But thanks for stickin' up for us monsters, ha?

How are you holding up?

[Why yes he does sound concerned, but at the same time silently ridiculing himself for his poor choice in words.]

[Haa, definitely chagrined at reading it that way, if pettily - the attitude of it's plainly understood...]

I'm not "coming out of the closet", Bakura... It was already impossible for people who see me not to know.

However, thank you for everything.

[Indeed Anthony firmly intends not to - but he is touched by it.]

-- Don't be...! -- I meant it -- it - ...I've erm - been adjusting to it...

...Should I have, by the way? I - er -- ...know it isn't my place to -- ...talk about other people's transformations -- [Lops that off unceremoniously - it can't be exactly his place to qualify it after asking a question like that, either.]

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[It's a question Anthony's been asked more than once since the process began - he reads nothing into the phrasing.]

Fine - thank you... -- Xander. [Tried to deliver that in a polite and sufficiently convincing unbroken and even tone - that last pause was on catching himself and correcting from a habitual "sir" on recollecting what was said on it the last time he and the source of this voice spoke.] -- It's -- already been almost a week since it - got -- more - obvious... -- It happened the night the -- ...light - reappeared. The -- pink light - in the sky.

[Likewise concerned - and additionally curious in a way of a simple and plain curiosity.] -- Did you, er - see it -- ? If I may ask...

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[He assumed that Anthony's condition got worse, but he won't press him for details. He'll take his word for it.

As for the question, that gets an exhale.]

...I did, but it gave me more questions instead of answers.

-- 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.]

Well, you're surviving, anyway . . . as much as a zombie can do that kind of thing, I guess. [Yeah, this is weird. How do you tell a zombie that they're surviving? Zombies are by definition dead, right? It feels kind of stupid to say that kind of thing. But it's out there.]

So the lights made you change more?

[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)

Right... - it was the lights. [Audible breath in the pause before the sentence.]

Did - you - ...see them yourself -- also? -- I'm -- sorry if - ...you've already - mentioned it. [For one reason and then another he can't be entirely sure he gave the network the thorough-est of checks for the day after.]

A zombie?

Yeah, but it's the first time you've openly admitted it without being prompted, pretty sure. Still counts. Still important.

Uhm -- ...yes - a zombie. -- I could -- ...make visual connection - if you'd like.

[Ah, dear, someone he's unacquainted with. Making a point to deliver that as easily-articulately as possible, tone still reserved - nothing to fret over for himself or anyone else - but the consciousness of it affects. Not necessarily expecting a yes, but as a sort of in-case!]

[Well, he hadn't made a post specifically about it, but he doesn't post much anyway. His only mention of it was in a conversation with Bakura.]

Saw them. Kind of a delayed reaction on what the pulse gave me, though.

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.]

--It's okay. I was just surprised, but I really shouldn't be. But you aren't mindless...

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.

[Oh, he...recognized that voice. Admittedly, it would be hard not to. Roy thought something sounded off when this person answered him previously, but wow, this was not the sort of something he expected.

Maybe he should have.]

...Are you alright?

[He still seemed to have his sanity, which is more than what the media usually grants to the undead.]

It - still hasn't come... -- you mean...

[Technically a question - said with an inflection weighted flat and to a tapering finely off. It's an unnerving thing to hear, particularly with the association set with his own first delayed pulse.]

[The last time he'd had a delayed pulse, he'd gotten a physical object. This time? Not the case. But unbeknownst to him, the two relate to one another.]

No, I have it now. Seems that "other me" had a title.

I actually had tried once before! You were in Japan at the time... I showed without telling, however. Although it wasn't as obvious then, people assumed.

...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.]

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