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[peopletalktome]

[ some crackling, and it's scratchy and cuts in and out at best ]

Hello is---

[ interference ]

Um, oh dear that's no--

[ more crackling ]

---orking...yet.....an---

[ click.]

[ooc; it broke and she has been trying to fix it in order to communicate with anyone....but she will not leave her apartment due to the craziness outside, which

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[worksmart]

Emma?

[Some worry here because when his cut out like that-- well.]

You've got a lot of interference on the line. Is everything alright?

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[peopletalktome]

[ a sort of flat static ]

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[peopletalktome]

--es, it's me it's just this devi---

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[peopletalktome]

--seems to be br---

But [interference ]

I'm fine other tha--

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[worksmart]

[Mental jigsaw puzzles. At least this one has corners intact.]

You're fine but your device is broken? Am I coming through clearly your end?

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[peopletalktome]

[ oh this is the sound a bit later of something cracking. clanking maybe, as much as plastic and little metal pieces can ]

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[peopletalktome]

That might have done---

...I can hear you, that is I can hea---

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[peopletalktome]

[ a tinny noise now, hollow, some clicks and then... unbroken feed but very low ]

Is that...is that any better? I've been trying to fix it myself, but it's just...and I don't really...

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[worksmart]

Quiet, but it's a lot better. How long has your connection been down?

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[peopletalktome]

Oh is it---it's just---

[pause as she tries to recalibrate it, to no avail]

---stuck, it seems. That level, I mean. But um, well, I suppose...since a little before the um...you know water going...well, going. And you see I'd planned on getting a new one, but I was just busy. I needed some...time anyway and it didn't seem like such a bad thing to wait until the next day but then...

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[peopletalktome]

[oh she catches her rambling too late]

...I'm so sorry. I'm...I think my nerves are just a little, you know, well...anyway, to answer your question, three days----but only two of them have been, really...a little problematic.

I can't...don't want to--- won't go outsi--

This place. Even without...I think I preferred believing it was a dream.

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[worksmart]

[He's used to sitting patiently until she trails off by now, though he's drawn breath to speak at least twice now and had to hold back.]

Staying indoors makes sense right now. There's nothing good out here. Do you have bottled water? Enough to eat?

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[peopletalktome]

[ nothing good, of course and why she had hoped to hear different there is no reasonable answer for, but she feels that foolish wishful thinking drain out in a rather long pause ]

Oh, well...it's manageable. It seems like everyone is...is going to be pressed for one thing or another.

But thank you for asking um... [she realizes that sounds as wish-washy as anything so she hurries on to say ] And, and what about yourself? I...I hope you have enough.