04 | [Video]

[talktothedoll]

[The webcam feed opens, and Mort looks a bit ashamed of himself.]

It would seem that I...well, I seem to have forgotten everything about these numbers and this network for the past couple of weeks. It's somewhat alarming, really.

[He sighs.]

I apologize if you came in looking for help with anything and I gave you a difficult time about it. I'm now leaving a few notes for myself in the event it happens again. Don't worry--it's nothing personally identifiable or dangerous to keep lying around, but it should be enough that I won't immediately start treating anyone talking about numbers and strange powers as delusional.

My office usually isn't open on Sundays, but given the circumstances, I'm here now. If you need to talk--or if I may have made things difficult for you this past week, please, stop by. If anyone's experiencing any new developments they're having trouble with, again, please feel free to stop by.

[There's another pause, as though what he's about to say next rubs his sense of ethics the wrong way.]

If circumstances call for it, I can...er, I can reassure your family members that everything's under control and that they've got nothing to worry about with these changes.

[There. He didn't outright say he'd lie for anyone, but that's basically what he means, loath as he is to admit it.]

Comments

[shiromadoushi]

Didn't looks very random to me. It mimicked you perfectly.

[talktothedoll]

It doesn't always move. It only sometimes moves...

[There's a wince.]

Sometimes I can open the drawer up and it hasn't moved at all.

[shiromadoushi]

Or so you think~

[talktothedoll]

Well, I'm not about to start keeping watch on it with a camera.

[He would rather not know these things for sure...]

[shiromadoushi]

Then how can you be sure?

[talktothedoll]

It...it's never moved whenever I've been watching. Even if I set the grasshopper to watching it, it still might not because something's looking at it...

[Crap, now there's a theory that needs to be tested scientifically. There's an exasperated sigh at the realization.]

[shiromadoushi]

[[Bakura just griiiins. Because he hears that sigh.

He won this round~]]

[talktothedoll]

[Don't you have somewhere you need to be right now, Bakura? Like somewhere else so he can set the camera up in peace?]

...I'll consider it.

[shiromadoushi]

You do that~

[[Grin getting more obnoxious now Bakura heads for the door]] I'll leave you to it, then~