Twenty-First Voice (voicepost/actionpost)

[beast_unbound]

They've all come together to kill us. Yes. This is how they'll do it, by driving us to madness, by poisoning our neurons, but burning them out with this dripping, this clicking, ticking, back and forth of a pendulum so large we can't hear it, only feel it, and it shakes us like a cannon blast has pierced us and rippled out and out once, twice, over

Comments

[nocakestoday]

Poor thing... the clock's tearing you to pieces.

What a pretty thing you are!

[beast_unbound]

...Pretty?

(Crunching the rat's spine, he drops its body on the ground, where it lies in an impossible angle. A snarl bubbles through his teeth.)

Take it away!

[nocakestoday]

I would stab it to bits if I could.

Do you bite?

[beast_unbound]

Not if you keep talking...it keeps that sound away.

Who are you? And why are you talking to us?

[lyra_of_dust]

Nagarov... Why have you been away?

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[beast_unbound]

Away...we have been away working on nanites. Creating more of the lab. Restoring ourselves, transforming ourselves, becoming what we once were, all you humans are going about your lives but we have ambition.

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[lyra_of_dust]

You need to be with someone-

The ticking- even I can't handle it, without Pan.

Nanites are the little machines, right?

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[beast_unbound]

Yes, the tiny machines.

But who, is the question...

[deadlyhealing]

The ticking can indeed get...overpowering.

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[beast_unbound]

There are no words for it, but it fades at the sound of human voices...who are you?

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[deadlyhealing]

Indeed, it does seem to recede with company.

Doctor Jezebel Disraeli. Please disregard my appearance, it seems I am cursed today.

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[beast_unbound]

...Cursed. Curse how? What are you, without a curse?

[obliviomancy]

Nagarov?

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[beast_unbound]

...You. Fire-creature. Non-human darkness. What do you (grating breath) want?

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[obliviomancy]

What happened to you?

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[beast_unbound]

Can you hear it, can't you, the sound of it in your mind, shaking your bones? The infernal clock...it has been the only thing in our mind, for so long...

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[reginagloriae]

What...what the hell. I feel sick.

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[beast_unbound]

Questions? Come to us, and we will answer you...

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[reginagloriae]

...I pass.

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[beast_unbound]

Are you afraid of us? Come speak to us...we want the sound to go away.