[When the audio clicks on, Hanna is a bit fidgety. He’s got the communicator on his lap-there’s the ambient sound of a fire crackling merrily in the background, and of paper being folded really quickly somewhat closer to the communicator.Okay, so, hi! Iiiiie probably haven’t met you yet? I’m Hanna Cross. I’m a paranormal investigator for hire, so
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[The woman's voice is slightly Japanese accented, so maybe she's in a position to know?]
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[Basically nothing could have roused her from her human-and-hating-it stupor but this. Good job, Hanna.]
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[His grin is evident in his voice.]
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[Pause.]
Why are you folding cranes?
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I'm just a little homesick, is all. Kind of want my friend to show up? But I don't at the same time, I don't think he'd like it here.
[He'll see that pause and raise you one.]
Well, not that he'd be too bothered by it. It's just a selfish little thought is all.
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[She sounds distant, flat. Which is how she always sounds, but Hanna has no way to know that.]
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[He chuckles a bit. He's used to people raining on his parade.]
They meant something to him, anyway, so. It kind of brings him here, without bringing him here, you know?
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["Origami" comes out with the Japanese pronunciation, the vowels different from English, and the stress on the syllables more evenly distributed.]
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Long story short, I sent a sort of a tracking spell to help him out this one time and it takes the form of something important to you, right? So yeah. His took the form of a paper crane. Sooooo, they're important. Somehow.
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[No, really! She actually means it!
Hard to tell from her delivery, though.]
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[He's not going to mention how Imhotep is totally a zombie, though, and that the amnesia is probably from being dead for ten years.]
So, what I decided back home was that I was going to help him out by making a whole bunch. Technically it's a wish for his health, so it'll work, right? Wishing for your memory back? 'Cause brain health-- I.E., lack of amnesia-- is totally health, so it totally counts, right? [He laughs, a bit self-conciously.] Even if you think it's just a myth.
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