29th dish - voice

[baratiesbest]

[The transmission begins quite deliberately. It's a voice post but there's not a whole lot being said, almost like the poster just wanted to try out a new way to avoid the bi-weekly electrocution. Or maybe he just wanted to say that he's back but couldn't find the words.

The silence stretches on. Ten seconds.

Twenty.

A minute.

The post ends just as

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[emomachine]

...You're back.

[baratiesbest]

Just like I said.

[emomachine]

... [He's not sure what else to say. It was over with now, and he was alive again. It was too late to change anything.]

I'm glad.

[baratiesbest]

['That makes one of us' is what he'd like to say but really, there's no reason to be even more pathetic over this.]

...hn.

[emomachine]

...Are you okay?

[baratiesbest]

I'm alive, aren't I?

[emomachine]

...

[baratiesbest]

...

[click]