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[slighted_stains]

[white noise, the connection severing throughout]

-- nd the authorities can handle the living. The dead won't wait.

[pause, then the increasing sounds of supernatural activity that's been punctuating train murders. Creaks, thuds, wood breaking, something like...scissors cutting perpetually, dripping, and overlapping voices]

Om. Amirita --

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[whoistheother]

That sounded like it hurt.

1/2

[slighted_stains]

[silent while slowly... getting himself up and together...]

voice

[slighted_stains]

I believe it served me my own warning.

voice

[whoistheother]

"Power responds to power."

voice

[slighted_stains]

It didn't disappoint.

voice

[whoistheother]

Are you going to try again?

voice

[slighted_stains]

If... it doesn't retaliate on the others.

[sigh]

I've given it offence.

voice

[whoistheother]

You'd better apologize, then.

voice

[slighted_stains]

[just going to, you know, retch some more on this end. Good radio broadcast.]

As soon as it's willing to listen.

voice

[whoistheother]

[That is...so pleasant.]

I guess you'll have to wait a bit.

voice

[slighted_stains]

[we're all about classy quality here at the Sumeragi Radio Show. More to himself than to Fuuma, really --]

Everything here's been touched by something.

voice

[whoistheother]

That's no surprise.

[I mean, it is, but it also...isn't.]

voice

[slighted_stains]

Can you feel it?

voice

[whoistheother]

[This is an affirmative sound, almost approaching a laugh, but not quite.]

voice

[slighted_stains]

[he should have expected the condescension; he didn't. Hesitantly - ]

What is it, to you?

voice

[whoistheother]

Nothing.

[A pause.]

Annoying.