06 // audio // locked to Lamb; damn secure, but not impossible to hack

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((OOC: Backdated to the same evening as this post; therefore, before this post.))

Sofia. Are you there?

[Alex's voice is a monotone; it's the flat, resigned dread of someone preparing to go into battle, driven only by a reluctance to admit that the odds are hopeless.]

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[VIDEO//PRIVATE]

[echo_of_utopia]

Of course, Alex. I'm here.

[She wants to ask if he's all right, but the answer is already written in his voice. Whatever this is, it won't be small talk.]

[AUDIO//PRIVATE]

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I just want to say.

[He promised he would.]

I'm pretty sure that man is here.

[VIDEO//PRIVATE]

[echo_of_utopia]

[Oh.

...oh.]

I see.

[She wants to ask how sure he is, how he knows, but that might sound as if she was questioning and indeed she is surprised that it's happening and that Alex has decided to tell her about it, but-]

Does he know you're here as well?

[VIDEO//PRIVATE]

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[Maybe it's a perk of being one of the only people he actually talks to! You're sort of an anchor, Sofia. Have fun with that.]

Hope not.

[But Alex hoped that when he ran away from the set of the movie - and look what happened that time. Maybe the Operator doesn't even need to look, maybe he just knows where Alex is, always. Even if running were possible here, maybe it'd be pointless.]