07. phone

[no_indoor_voice]

[Filters are for squares Montagues people with the patience to put them up. Tybalt is not one of these people.]

HOW DO THEY KNOW OUR INFORMATION?!?

[Long pause, in which he can be heard breathing raggedly.]

...is it possible to trade a drone child that- aaaugh-

-that somehow knew today is my birthday -

I want it gone. I want a different child in my

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[istheatmosphere]

Oh, I know what you mean. I'm twenty-four years old and one of my "children" must be in his teens. It's creepy.

I'm afraid I don't think it's possible for us to trade in any member of our household. The best we can hope for is for a real person to replace them.

[no_indoor_voice]

...not even if the real child needs me?

[istheatmosphere]

...Is there a real child that needs you? [Sorry for the scepticism. The yelling didn't do much to inspire confidence.]

[no_indoor_voice]

She's alone right now with two drone adults-

[istheatmosphere]

But drones are generally harmless, right? So she should be okay.

[no_indoor_voice]

They're these inhuman things- she's a child-

[istheatmosphere]

Well, perhaps she could stay with you, even though she's not assigned to your household?

[Mokuren doesn't really know all the rules yet.]

[no_indoor_voice]

[bluntly] IS THAT POSSIBLE.

[istheatmosphere]

I don't see why it wouldn't be. [She'll be droned if she stays at a different house for more than three days, of couse. But Mokuren doesn't know that.]

[no_indoor_voice]

Could it be requested-

[istheatmosphere]

[slightly irritated] To whom would you make the request? Just take her if you're so worried.