Twenty-Sixth Message [Video | Sheet of Paper]

[scramasax]

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.]

Comments

voice

[wonk]

[Roxy groans before activating voice.]

I listened to the message three times and you didn't actually say what the interesting thing was, so what is it.

video

[scramasax]

-- Ohh. [Thick.]

Well, uhm. [And thin. Tightly so, oops, she's right, he was talking nonsense.] I don't - know. Either. I, uhh... said it that way in case -- someone may...

[Doesn't occur to him that none of that is quite any more explanatory.]

[wonk]

Dude, just explain the thing. We can't know if it's interesting until you tell us.

[scramasax]

But I -- [What on earth did he even say, runs through it, and -

Ahh and whoops, then.]

-- ohh, you mean what - happened - ... Er -- that's - the problem, I don't know...

Times from last week I'm - not sure what I was doing and uh - not sure what it means... -- I apologize.

[wonk]

So you're sayin' that you just zoned out and what, woke up doin' something different?

I realize this might seem kinda silly, but like - maybe you should talk to a doctor about that?

[scramasax]

It's -- it's more than zoning out, and uhh - 'mmh not sure what that would do, I uh.

...Had -- someone suggest to me, that um. [Words go a little shallower, tad creakier.] Could be uh... parts of my brain - rotting.

[wonk]

...yeah, there's gotta be like - preservatives and antifungals and stuff, right? To stop that? 'S'worth a shot.

[scramasax]

I couldn't, uh -- compensate, for that - though.

[Monetarily, at the least.]

[wonk]

I don't - oh, um, no they're really nice over there, they'll run your shit for free. They were gonna exempt me because I was a kid, except I'm super rich so I figured I could throw in more support.

[scramasax]

Er -- "over there"...? [Goes quickly and awkwardly high-pitched, did something obvious slip his mind...]

[wonk]

Yeah the clinic - wait no I didn't say that yet. Anyway, yeah, I meant the network clinic, LSR. That guy was a bro, I liked him.

[scramasax]

[Ahh he should've figured as much - ]

Oh -- ...yes, I - I know... I know the clinic... [That winds down.]

I... [Not-laughing breathing sound. Coughs.] 'Mm already dead, though -- I don't - uhhm. I doubt anything would do anything...

[wonk]

You're still movin', aren't you? There's gotta be some mechanism for that.

Look, dude, what do you have to lose from a visit?