eleven. voice.
The very first thing you should know is that your pets are dead.
[Katurian's voice is an unfortunate cracking middle schooler's, but his usual morbid glee is unmistakable.]
Probably dead. Most-likely dead. Unless we're talking about parrots that can live for a hundred years and whatnot, but I'm betting most people have cats and dogs and gerbils. Did you know that something like fifty million people die every year? If you're thirteen years in the future like I am, think about how six and a half hundred million people have died since. There are car accidents and heart disease and freak accidents like swallowing glass from cracked plates and murders and suicides and murder-suicides. There are six and a half hundred million ways to go. Or more.
Do you figure any of them are people we know?
[Light, sing-song:]
Welcome to the future.
[private to stein]
Hello?
[Katurian's voice is an unfortunate cracking middle schooler's, but his usual morbid glee is unmistakable.]
Probably dead. Most-likely dead. Unless we're talking about parrots that can live for a hundred years and whatnot, but I'm betting most people have cats and dogs and gerbils. Did you know that something like fifty million people die every year? If you're thirteen years in the future like I am, think about how six and a half hundred million people have died since. There are car accidents and heart disease and freak accidents like swallowing glass from cracked plates and murders and suicides and murder-suicides. There are six and a half hundred million ways to go. Or more.
Do you figure any of them are people we know?
[Light, sing-song:]
Welcome to the future.
[private to stein]
Hello?