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[VOICE. static -- the sound of someone moving it, testing the communicator. occasionally you might hear a 'hmm'.
switches to TEXT.]
communicator not switching to language. stuck in capitalist block letters. english, it says. a disorganized language. a brutish language. you need a key to shift tones, disguise meaning, delegate and re-delegate importance in words? uncoordinated. back home, the slightest tone can either kill or break. or both.
[back to VOICE. for a moment, there is nothing. like the other line had disappeared, and forgotten that the communicator's still running.
and then:]
kolkolkolkolkolkol
Souls, they say. They talk of feeding on souls. I know of souls. [horrible smile. not that you can see, but you bet it's there.] I have a hundred million of them.
switches to TEXT.]
communicator not switching to language. stuck in capitalist block letters. english, it says. a disorganized language. a brutish language. you need a key to shift tones, disguise meaning, delegate and re-delegate importance in words? uncoordinated. back home, the slightest tone can either kill or break. or both.
[back to VOICE. for a moment, there is nothing. like the other line had disappeared, and forgotten that the communicator's still running.
and then:]
kolkolkolkolkolkol
Souls, they say. They talk of feeding on souls. I know of souls. [horrible smile. not that you can see, but you bet it's there.] I have a hundred million of them.