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Twenty-one Bells: [ACTION/VOICE]

Sep 11, 2011 17:31

[Archie has barely been around town lately, but he does appear in town this afternoon, dashing about to various shops and stores and picking up various one-use items and lots and lots of groceries. He seems to have one thing on his mind.

Later, he'll sit at the fountain and send out the voice message:]

This is Mr. Kennedy. If anyone is in need of me ( Read more... )

babysitting jack, still okay, action, a case of the sads, voice

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[voice] seventeensir September 11 2011, 22:26:12 UTC

All well there, Archie?

[Jovial enough... but there is real concern in the undertone.]

Well as it can be, at least, I mean.

[Despite having been shown once how to filter things... He doesn't get it, so he's careful about what he says. Private business and such.]

[voice - 50%] noprevaricating September 11 2011, 22:35:21 UTC

Good God, Horatio, I do not know how you did this in Ferrol. [He's sounding just a tad shaken.]

[voice - 50%] seventeensir September 11 2011, 22:39:09 UTC

The same way you are doing it, Archie-- because you know you have to. [It's gentle, soft.]

[voice - 50%] noprevaricating September 11 2011, 22:46:39 UTC

You did not have to. Somehow, you did, and I cannot...I do not think I was the one for this task, Horatio.

[voice - 50%] seventeensir September 11 2011, 22:54:01 UTC

I had to, Archie, as a friend. Just as I'm sure you'd argue if I told you that you didn't have to look after Sparrow.

[voice - 50%] noprevaricating September 11 2011, 22:59:59 UTC

Perhaps. But I do not have your fortitude.

[voice - 50%] seventeensir September 11 2011, 23:04:50 UTC

I think you do, Archie. Perhaps more.

[voice - 50%] noprevaricating September 11 2011, 23:32:17 UTC

[Deep breath in and out.] What am I to do, Horatio?

[voice - 50%] seventeensir September 11 2011, 23:37:03 UTC

Take it a day at a time. And take every day an hour at a time. And take every hour a minute at a time.

Give yourself time, if you need it. A few hours a day or a night to sort your own thoughts and have time for yourself.

[voice - 50%] noprevaricating September 11 2011, 23:39:58 UTC

[He can remember that. Living moment to moment, expecting to die still but knowing it could wait till later. Eventually, he had started thinking about the next moment, and the next day.]

Of course. You're right.

[voice - 50%] seventeensir September 11 2011, 23:44:00 UTC

All that can be done in situations like this, I'm afraid. [He was fond of planning himself, of laying out a long-term plan. But sometimes... one only had the short-term.]

[voice - 50%] noprevaricating September 11 2011, 23:45:05 UTC

You remember those days well?

[voice - 50%] seventeensir September 11 2011, 23:45:55 UTC

...I don't think I'll ever forget them.

[voice - 50%] noprevaricating September 11 2011, 23:48:35 UTC

...What do you think of them now?

[voice - 50%] seventeensir September 12 2011, 00:02:02 UTC

Every day spent at that place... feels like it was ten times as long. But...

[A slight chuckle, quiet rather than amused.]

But we survived.

[voice - 50%] noprevaricating September 12 2011, 00:14:52 UTC

...Yes. Despite everything, we did. But that isn't what I meant, Horatio. I know how bad it was. I want to know what you think of it now.

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