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[makesfolktalky]

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[The feed cuts to video, obscured at first, until a clumsy paw lifts up again and attempts to press buttons again.]

Bloody thing... Can't they make these things jus' a bit less shit?

...Oh, for God's sake. There. Is this recordin' now? Oh, shit... I didn't want it to record like that.

[The paw withdraws and

Comments

[justcautious]

Ray? What was that thing?! Great...massive thing in the video.

[makesfolktalky]

[Still steering well clear of the device.]

Wha--? Nothin'. Dunno what you mean.

[justcautious]

You know! That....furry somethin'. An' y'left your video on too. [This is too puzzling for him to work out. He's just going to...try and remember what exactly the big furry something looked like.]

[makesfolktalky]

Yeah, well. I'm lyin' down, aren't I? Bit 'ard to reach, innit?

[justcautious]

Oh yeah, I s'pose. You goin' t'be alright, though? If y'can't even stand up...

[makesfolktalky]

Yeah, yeah. M'fine, Chris. S'jus' flu.

[justcautious]

Okay. Long as there in't somethin' in your apartment. Thought I saw sommat, though...

[makesfolktalky]

There ain't nothin' t'see, Chris. All right?

[justcautious]

I can tell, cos y'left your device on.

[makesfolktalky]

Yeah, Chris. I know I did. So's you can see you didn't see nothin', yeah?

[justcautious]

[A pause.]

...this like that time I didn't come in for work cos I were sick too and there was some bird pretendin' t'be me?

[makesfolktalky]

[Ray pauses himself, because agreeing with that means indirectly admitting that actually, yes, he does know that was Chris.]

Sommat like that. Sort of.

[justcautious]

[Chris spends a little bit of time thinking about his answer and then ends up speaking it in sort of hushed tones.] So...s'not so much flu as it is tryin' t'hunt down some sort of massive animal that th'City put into your flat?

[makesfolktalky]

[For the first time in this conversation Ray sounds almost not grumpy.]

Aye, yeah. That's about right. Jus' seemed easier t'say it were flu.

[justcautious]

So...d'you want me t'pass that on t'Beckett? Verb-- ...um, like 'ow I said it? Or jus' tell 'em it's flu?

[makesfolktalky]

Flu, Chris. Jus' sounds stupid, what you said, if you say it to anyone else.