✾ 『 third hit 』 | accidental voice

[neverplays]

[ There's the strain of an empty line, white noise as a steady pulse. A minute or so lapses until a voice finally speaks. ]

You'd be proud of me.

... Proud of us. The dumbass helped, you know, helped with a lot of dumb luck but we-

[ more static, though it's not silence on her end. ]

We finally did it, like you would have done.

[ ... ]It

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audio;

[adamantined]

Hey. You okay?

audio;

[neverplays]

[ a strained pause. no point in hissing about the accidental communicator right now. ]

I'm fine. [ another pause ] Really.

audio;

[adamantined]

Curses like this are never really easy.

audio;

[neverplays]

He's dead, if that's what you want to ask.

audio;

[adamantined]

I didn't want to ask anything, but I'm sorry.

audio;

[neverplays]

Don't worry about it.

He didn't die for nothing.

audio;

[adamantined]

What did he die for?

audio;

[neverplays]

[ there's a long pause here; so many ways to phrase an answer. ]

For my mother.

audio;

[adamantined]

[A pause of equal length on her side.]

That's extremely admirable.

audio; SO LATE SOB

[neverplays]

Dad really loved her.