//025// Voice / Mercy

[politehulk]

[Splash! Laboured water noises. Wetness on concrete noises.]

What?! Not -

[Fumbling for the device. Hiss of static.]

Oh. Oh my god. Billy?! How long have I been gone? Is he still in the hospital? Kate??

I can't believe -

[cut off]

[ooc: tiniest bit of canon update, just some point between the end of SI #8 and around when Norman takes

Comments

[anti_buttons]

You really can't believe?

[politehulk]

I meant that I can't believe that the city would do that to me - to us. But I shouldn't be surprised.

[anti_buttons]

I assume you mean taking you from wherever or whenever you were taken.

That is, I gather, what the City does. Unfortunately.

[politehulk]

It was when it took me from here that bothers me, not the other way around.

[anti_buttons]

That is new.

[politehulk]

Is it? Well, I'm not happy to be the first.