Nineteenth Message [Text -> Video | Sheet of Paper]

[scramasax]

[Last message seemed to be a reminder that it may be advisable not to jump straight into visual connection without some sort of warning or heads-up preface.

Is unsure what a clear enough heads-up would be, deliberates a moment - and then pens in - ]

This is Anthony Janvier (the zombie). [It's a ridiculously silly thing to write but the warning's clear!] I am changing to video.

[Another pause - and connects directly with a rough - ] - Excuse - me - ... [A little thick and choppy - quick flick of his eyes down in a sense that's part additionally apologetic and part plain a tad restless.]

-- How umm -

-- If I may ask - how - [A little hoarse, this is not meant to sound critical as much as it is curious but he'd not be fretting that if it wasn't out of some subconscious, latent opinionated though - ] -- sure we are - of the -- past life or - alternate - reality - theories.

[That punctuation's not an error. It's entirely uninflected, held tense along a line, as is everything else just a little faintly, has no idea how much presumption could've been read into that.]

Comments

[scramasax]

That's uhm -- still some of what I mean - I think... - It - er, it could be - something more, trying to -- ...shape us into people, who -- we -- couldn't have been otherwise. -- Deliberately, I mean...

[stavros]

In that case, what is it that you believe? That these are our impossible dreams?

[scramasax]

Nnh - not ours - ! -- Necessarily - but something's -- ...idea - for us -- what I think is that something's in -- charge, of this... [Will leave it off at that much for that turn.]

[stavros]

They are disturbing to be sure, but... I am uncertain as to whether somebody deciding who we must become is more plausible than a connection to another realm or many.

[scramasax]

[He mulls over asking if she believes in God for a few seconds - that would be daft; the answer implied in that is no.

Takes it, after another second of thought, in the opposite direction. Tone airy and docile - meant not to be argumentative, only sincere.] - I - ...! == Don't know if I believe in alternate - dimensions - to be honest...

[stavros]

With all due respect, I am unsure what cannot be believed in now.

[scramasax]

-- But then it - could still be something - controlling this - ... [Tone still meek, don't sound pushy about it...]

[stavros]

...I do not know. However, your argument seems as valid as the other. Not more so, but I shall consider it.