savetheearth | Twenty-Sixth Message [Video

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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[A dissatisfying answer. Gentle and final, however, it sounds indeed. At least for the time being.

Dissatisfaction shifts back into steeling for the original line of questioning with a whistlingly-voiced breath. He's already explained it to Nick, by now - makes it a tad easier to articulate.

Coughs.] Well, uh -- I told... Nick, I - panicked. 'Mmh not sure why. I -- stayed that way - for a - while, and when it - was over I -- [Shakes his head.] - wasn't sure -- what I was doing - ...

[Also as was given to Nick:] I'm sorry.

[It always seems to be bad news.]

[ she listens, pressing her lips together. she can feel that anger curling in her stomach again, the idea that this sort of thing is happening, is happening to- to anthony, of all people. to people it doesn't deserve to happen to.

but then, who really deserves this?... ]

Don't be sorry. It's not something you can control... not yet. [ she doesn't seem to realize the irony of her statement, having been treating herself the same way, but she's speaking genuinely to anthony. ] What did you panic about?...

[ Reilanin responds before he can. Since she basically said the same thing he would have, he keeps quiet and waits for Anthony's response.

(The irony of Reilanin's answer doesn't escape him.) ]

I don't know -- ... [His tone's a little strained, but he's likewise trying to speak frankly. Slackens low.] I only had a pulse -- and - it happened... -- Maybe, the -- ...pulse, is... all I was afraid of.

[Small internal twinge at putting it that way, but it's a shame-bowed confession, he does get a flare of acute unease whenever he feels a pulse at this point.

It's either that or the pulse was the panic.]

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Maybe.

[ that doesn't help the anxious feeling building up inside of her. it could be the pulse that scared him, or...

she falls silent. ]

[ His lips press together in a thin line. ]

You said you hadn't been sure of what you were doing. Like you lost time?

-- I uhh.

[Drops and angles his head a notch further. Brow twitches.] I don't know... -- It's more, uh. I know -- something should've - been... happening then, but I...

Can't remember anything but the panic.

[And even that he's unsure is entirely faithful; lost time may be in the spirit of it to the extent he could say it, given he can't see a clock to compare.]

[ it doesn't seem like there's much to press on the issue. something should have been happening, but he didn't remember or didn't know what that something was.

she runs her tongue over a canine, careful not to draw blood on it (again). ]

What about all of those runes you've been collecting, Anthony? Do those have anything to do with what happened?

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