oo1. the strain [video];

[livetobefeared]

[It's a close up of the garbage disposal. It's pristine, since Phobos doesn't actually know what it is, never mind how to use it. He films it switched on for a while, then turns it off... Only to switch it back on again between speaking.]

Unusual people, I find, tend to do unusual things. Like hand over keys for doors, boxes, safes, padlocks that

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[illusived]

Free?

PhobosPhobosPhobos

So good of you to arrive here. Now I have found you.

Free?

What is it?

Breakdrowntearit-

-Free?

[video] because he's special like that

[livetobefeared]

[Frowning at the camera with one eyebrow raised--& we apologise, but while he knows she isn't in the camera itself, he isn't paying much attention;] ... I know you.

Yes. [Focus turns back to garbage disposal.] How do I free it?

[illusived]

The extension of you is what I am.

breaktearlash

If you put someone's finger down there they will give you what you wantneedcrave.

[video]

[livetobefeared]

[Still the garbage disposal;] Deimos is a ma--ooh, Phrike. [He has taken to rolling the R in her name.]

[Fingers reach out to grab at the safety guard... while the thing is switched on. So now he has to shout;] I can't let it out?

[Video]

[yawningvoid]

[It doesn't take much to realize Khaos is "hiding" under her bed, the night vision of the camera giving her skin a greenish tone; she looks kind of amused by the whole monologue]

Unusual like me.

My own...Mm free?

[video]

[livetobefeared]

[Staring at her through the camera, apparently intrigued;]

Your own?

[video]

[yawningvoid]

[She really can't work with so few words, lol. Khaos gives him a "serious" look, although she looks fairly childish, since she is also smirking.]

Own.

[video]

[livetobefeared]

[He's mirroring her expression, but has realised this may be amusing.]

I used to have one just like that.

[most_persistant]

You can't, um, free the garbage disposal. It's not... freeable?

[livetobefeared]

Why not?

[most_persistant]

Well, you could free it but once you've freed it it won't do anything. It's not really alive.

[livetobefeared]

Further explanation is required.

[a_snowbaby]

it doesn't get free. you feed it leftovers.

and you really shouldn't stick your hand in it. you don't want it to turn on.

[livetobefeared]

But I want to let it out and I wish for it to be turned on. This is the point of the exercise.

We are donating someone else's fingers and toes and... whatever it was Phrike said.

[a_snowbaby]

guess it's not so bad if they're somebody else's bits and pieces. [And this would be the point where she gets fed up with clicking with her one available hand.]

[Voice]

It rumbles and growls and stuff, yeah? But it's a buncha blades on a spinner. Not a monster. [Thoughtfully.] Well, unless it's possessed or somethin'.

[livetobefeared]

That's boring and you're a child.

That's not to say you're childish, but you are actually a child. With a squeaky voice. You're even dropping all the right consonants.

[zooos]

Tell me you took it all the way, my boy.

[livetobefeared]

But that would be a lie. You're a terrible example for your descendants.

[zooos]

Not at all.

[livetobefeared]

In that it's a lie or you're a terrible example?

... Arguably, both are lies, but you wouldn't know.