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.]

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[detectivetroll]

[Damn it Anthony, don't make him do this. He really wants to shut down here, like he always has when things get this heavy, when there's this much emotion involved.

But he meant it when he said he didn't want lose Anthony, so... for that, he'll try.]

You're smart. You come up with these ideas about pulses and the network, like those databases, that seem obvious in retrospect, but I never thought of them. There's a reason I tell you everything I find out, and it's because if I missed something, you might pick up on it. I can bounce things off you because I know your opinion is always a good one.

You're good in a fight. You can think on your feet, your intuition's good, and there's not many people I'd trust more at my back than you.

[He could probably stop there, but now that he's started, it's almost like he can't stop.]

You're determined. Shit, you're one of the bravest I've ever met, Anthony. When I was around your age, I lost my parents and I wanted to die. When that didn't work, I stopped caring, about anyone. You've lost almost everything, and you're still going. You're still trying, you're doing everything you can. Most people'd run away from all this. Most people aren't even a quarter of the person you are.

[And that's... probably way more than Anthony needed to know, so he's just going to awkwardly stop talking.]