001 ☠ [Audio] ☠ Help I'm Alive

[loveofvenom]

[There's a thumping, banging, jerking. Screaming. Oh god the screams are so loud echoing in the morgue. Screams as if someone is being murdered or burned alive. The Italian is frantic, coming out in desperate gasps.]

Perché? Perché Dio?

[Even more frantic movement. The sound of paper tearing.]Why am I alive? God, what have I done to deserve this

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[dontasktrix]

[Slipstream replies via the phone's voice mode. There's a slight mechanical quality to her voice, but her vocalizer synthesizes late 21st century American English quite well.]

Really, your people don't have any tales of resurrection? [Because isn't there some human religious cult in that boot-shaped part of the world where they talk like that?]

Life-giving artifacts? Individuals with special powers? Deities? [Why's everyone so spooked by not being dead, lately, it's not like certain bots haven't cheated final deactivation multiple times!]

[loveofvenom]

Christ was the only one who could resurrect anyone from the dead. But he has been dead for years- it is not the time of the apocalypse. I should not be alive.

[Surely whoever this voice belongs to-this device is so bizarre- must know of Christ and God and the bible. But the way it, she?, speaks leads Tessa to doubt. Poor soul, may God have mercy.]

[dontasktrix]

It's not like I'm saying that guy's here. [She's pretty irreverent about most religious matters.] But, if you believe it's possible one can do it, then it is possible. Usually people are grateful-

Not that I'm saying I care who's grateful or not; it just seems a pointless thing to care about, when we're all stuck here.

[loveofvenom]

It is a shock. I cannot say I feel I deserve this, nor can I that I am alright with this.

[This is so hard to explain and everything is still so new. She has to take a moment to gather her wits about her.]

Were you resurrected as well?

[chokeaslug]

[For some reason, this hits closer to home then it should. And it hurts, a little.]

...you're alive because that's how it is. Call it a curse or a miracle. Did you want someone else to live instead?

[loveofvenom]

[That hits close to home. And it hurts more than it should because that person is okay and alive and he's here with her.]

If such was an option, yes.