At least I'm going into the job with clean hands.

Jun 07, 2011 13:28

[The owner of this communicator is a woman, going by the sound of her voice; she speaks clearly, and of no nonsense, but in a calm, relatively quiet sort of way. It is the voice of a person who knows that she does not need to scream and rage to stand her ground or prove her point, and who is quite sure of the validity of her opinions. In fact, it might remind you just a little bit of your mother...]

I have heard of some Northern cities being very advanced. This building is very tall. It is the tallest building I have ever been in. I am told I am safe here. I do not know if I am. It seems dangerous to be this high.

I would like to come down. I must find my children. School will end soon. They will need a healthy dinner when they come home. I must return to my house. I do not understand how I was brought here, but there was a stew on the stove. It is dangerous to leave food cooking unattended.

I do not believe I [She seems to falter here, ever so briefly. Perhaps she was about to say something else. Something about missing body parts, or pink skin, or how frightening it is to be in the same room as some kind of machine with a face and a voice and no sight of anyone behind some sort of door or curtain. But this is no place and no time for her to fall apart. And so she carries the sentence in a slightly different direction.] have ever seen a radio this small.

There is much about today I do not understand.

† mother squirrel | n/a

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