[ text & accidental video ]

[tellak]

[The message begins as simple text:]

England. I

[The movement of his hand, shaky as it is, accidentally activates the video function. This skinny young man is still writing in his NV scroll, unaware of the change. The lighting is dim, yet it's clear that he's been beaten. Severely. The bruises around his neck look as though someone tried to

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Voice.

[payingthepiper]

... Have you been able to contact your friend, sir?

[switched back to text now]

[tellak]

No.

Voice onwards.

[payingthepiper]

Do you know if he may be busy?

[tellak]

I do not know.

[payingthepiper]

Who... is he, exactly? Does he go by any other name--?

[tellak]

Arthur Kirkland.

[payingthepiper]

[another codename? more importantly--]

Would he be a doctor?

[tellak]

He is not.

[payingthepiper]

Would you take one?

[tellak]

I do not need a doctor.

[payingthepiper]

It would be better if you saw one, nonetheless.

[tellak]

It would be a waste. I am not dead, so I will heal.

[payingthepiper]

It must be painful. [a beat.] And it wouldn't be a waste at all. The whole reason people become doctors is to heal others. You would be taking away from their chance to do their job, if anything.