ǂ 009 -- still better (phone/action)
[Someone's still a little confused now and then where his memory blanks out. He's also most irritated than he's been in a while.]
So can we go outside? If inside's not safe and outside's not safe and-- I mean, can we all just bolt until we've seen that our friends are safe and then-- go hide in the woods or something?
Or is it worse if there are lots of us together?
I don't--
[And, of course, there's the fact that having the Diabolo back is generally destabilizing. His attention span has been a little shorter than usual, so the phone is idle a moment before he hangs up again.
And, against whatever judgment the world has given him, heads out to
a) skirt about behind his own house like a well-trained street child and
b) window-peek, because maybe he'll see people behaving normally and calmly and it'll remind him of how to be calm. Or maybe the hazmats will eat him. NOT SURE.]
So can we go outside? If inside's not safe and outside's not safe and-- I mean, can we all just bolt until we've seen that our friends are safe and then-- go hide in the woods or something?
Or is it worse if there are lots of us together?
I don't--
[And, of course, there's the fact that having the Diabolo back is generally destabilizing. His attention span has been a little shorter than usual, so the phone is idle a moment before he hangs up again.
And, against whatever judgment the world has given him, heads out to
a) skirt about behind his own house like a well-trained street child and
b) window-peek, because maybe he'll see people behaving normally and calmly and it'll remind him of how to be calm. Or maybe the hazmats will eat him. NOT SURE.]