Voice Mail

[ladywithnovoice]

This is Red.

Leave a message, and I'll get back to you.

Comments

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[me_first]

[There's a long pause.]

i'll be ok

they're just dreams

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[ladywithnovoice]

[He gets a return pause that's almost as long.]

Want to talk about it?

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[me_first]

it's just more of the same. cloudbank decaying. buildings falling. endless silence.

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[ladywithnovoice]

I dream about Sybil sometimes.

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[me_first]

before? or after?

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[ladywithnovoice]

After. When she was processed.

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[me_first]

i see.

do you want to stay here another day or should we move on tomorrow?

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[ladywithnovoice]

Tomorrow seems fine. Back to Violet? You never went to that Gym, did you?

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[me_first]

sounds good to me. and no i didn't. i think we might need to train a little more.

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[ladywithnovoice]

I suppose it wouldn't be a challenge if they could be beaten easily.

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[me_first]

of course not. but it's good to have something to aim for!

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[ladywithnovoice]

It keeps us busy if nothing else.

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[me_first]

it's not like we have something else to do.

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[ladywithnovoice]

I guess that's one thing in this place's favor. There's things to do.

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[me_first]

are you going to do it too?

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[ladywithnovoice]

Might as well, right?

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[me_first]

right!

but you should probably go back to sleep now.

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[ladywithnovoice]

How about you?

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[me_first]

you shouldn't worry about me so much.

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[ladywithnovoice]

I'll worry about whoever I want to worry about.

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[me_first]

even someone you could likely blame for the destruction of everyone and everything you care about.

[It's one of those nights.]

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[ladywithnovoice]

[And Royce, guess what?]

[You're getting a high heeled shoe thrown at you from across the way.]

[...And a text immediately after.]

What's hating you going to do for me!?

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[me_first]

[Ow. That was his head. He tosses it back underhand.]

i dont' know

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[ladywithnovoice]

It doesn't solve anything

It wouldn't bring cloudbank back, it wouldn't bring my voice back, it wouldn't bring back Henter Jallaford or Bailey Gilande or Preston Moyle or anyone else back

Why don't you hate the two of us for taking the Transistor and throwing everything off the rails?

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[me_first]

because it wasn't actually you who did anything wrong. not in the sense that most people would think.

if there's anyone to blame for throwing things off the rails it's sybil.