[BZZT--!]  Ow!  [Pause as Oz is presumably jerking his fingers away and inspecting them for damage.  His voice is... a little more careful, a little more distracted than usual, but it'd take someone who knew him well to recognize this.]

Whoops, I didn't mean to [...] leave it alone for so long...

Say, I have a lot of books here from the library ( Read more... )