001 // [VOICE] // what is past is prologue
[The stranger who speaks is surprisingly calm, his voice nice and even, as if this sort of thing happens to him all the time--and who knows, maybe it really does?]
I'd thought this was Lachesis' work. She hadn't said much, lately.
But I can see now this isn't a joke.
It's too elaborate. Even for her.
Hm...
[Resigned.]
...All right.
My name is--[A pause. An unfamiliar setting... best to go back to an alias. Something only a select few would know; after all, if there's a chance that others from his previous world escaped too, how else to sort out those he could trust right away?
His voice grows even quieter, if you can imagine that. Clever listeners might catch the barest hitch in his breath before he speaks the name.] --This is Rumble.
Requesting assistance.
Contact with Sandrock preferable, if at all possible.
[Another beat while he considers something. Maybe...]
Zero. Shinigami. Shenlong. You too.
I'd thought this was Lachesis' work. She hadn't said much, lately.
But I can see now this isn't a joke.
It's too elaborate. Even for her.
Hm...
[Resigned.]
...All right.
My name is--[A pause. An unfamiliar setting... best to go back to an alias. Something only a select few would know; after all, if there's a chance that others from his previous world escaped too, how else to sort out those he could trust right away?
His voice grows even quieter, if you can imagine that. Clever listeners might catch the barest hitch in his breath before he speaks the name.] --This is Rumble.
Requesting assistance.
Contact with Sandrock preferable, if at all possible.
[Another beat while he considers something. Maybe...]
Zero. Shinigami. Shenlong. You too.