F-fuck ...

[There's a fumbled noise of someone handling the comm with shaky fingers, a crack as it hits the floor, then scrabbling, scratching noises as it's picked back up before clicking off again.]

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Anyone know if the lifts are safe?

I can't sit here and listen to this bloody screaming anymore.

Y'know, Houdini actually died of peritonitis from a ruptured appendix?  None of that Chinese water trap shit.  Bloody amazing man, but he was only human.  All that showmanship and mystery, and he took his last breath in a hospital bed.

Isn't half nice to get out and stretch me legs again.

[He clears his throat, then reads from the book in front of him.]

"Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises; and oft it hits
Where hope is coldest, and despair most fits."

Smart guy, old Bill.