0.05 [Audio]

[tic_tech_turtle]

[There's the sound of the communicator being fumbled with, and soft child noises of frustration and curiosity.]

[Then Don speaks, voice very, very young; an uncertain stage whisper and wavering like a child at the end of his ropes. The words muffle halfway through as he accidentally puts his thumb over the mouthpiece]

M-master Splinter?

[Long pause,

Comments

[heavyweaponsbot]

... Tingling?

[tic_tech_turtle]

Yeah. And it's, um. Numb, I think? And it kinda hurts. A little.

[pause]

But not that bad! It's okay. I can still use it.

[heavyweaponsbot]

What did you do to it? Pinch a wire?

[tic_tech_turtle]

I'm lying on it.

...I don't have wires, I don't think.

[heavyweaponsbot]

Why are you lying on it...?

... What?

[tic_tech_turtle]

Because I have to. There's no more room.

I don't think I have wires. I don't know what they're called, but I don't think they're wires.

[heavyweaponsbot]

... What do you mean, you "have to"?

You're kinda deluded.

[tic_tech_turtle]

[Don shifts a bit at the reminder of his hidey-hole, and metal clanks and shifts with him.]

'Cause I do. I'm...hiding.

...What's deluded?

[heavyweaponsbot]

... Why are you hiding?

Means you're off your processor.

[tic_tech_turtle]

Because I'm not supposed to be seen by people 'cause they'll cut me up.

[stated very matter-of-factly]

...What's a processor?

[heavyweaponsbot]

That's stupid. Why would anyone do that?

... in your head.

[tic_tech_turtle]

Because they don't understand what we are and they hurt what they don't understand. That's what Master Splinter said.

That's the brain.

[heavyweaponsbot]

... that's stupid.

Is not.

[tic_tech_turtle]

Yeah.

...Yes it is.

[heavyweaponsbot]

No, it isn't.

[tic_tech_turtle]

...

Yes, it is.