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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.]

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Mmyes. What kinds of things do you hear? Or 'see'? And how long do your delusions last?

I can't -- tell; I apologize... It never - feels, like -- more than a minute... [Could he see a clock, he'd certainly have checked most instances by now.]

Uhh - things I - things I hear, uhm. Sounds -- I've heard in my visions, ss - sometimes. Like, umm. Roars, uhh - shrieking - noises. -- And bells and chimes.

I uh - see - the room - smaller than it should be, and er - things. ["Things" is a copout that he fails to think anything of at this very moment.]

I am -- so sorry, I know that -- probably doesn't help. Anything...

[Dragged off husky.]

So they're definitely delusions? And not, say, visions of the future? Or magical projections?

[ The heaviest and most snootacular of sighs. ]

Urrrgh. Pity. Those would have been far more interesting.

Er - I'm sorry...! [Cringing and emphatic, blast it he has disappointed.]

I -- only have them when I -- uhmm... get... stressed out.

[A stupid and inelegant and not even particularly useful explanation, but alas.]

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