01 ▮ day ▮ voice

[ituncleared]

[Deep breaths, Lou, deep breaths. He's still practicing this exercise about a split second before the recording begins, shifting his focus to it immediately, superficially ready to laugh and quip at this silly challenge someone has proposed (forced) him to take part in.

It's nothing but pure nerves, he assures you.]This is... definitely the most

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[mortestmamere]

Your cat has lost you, you mean.

[mortestmamere]

It's hardly any concern of mine if your mind is too slow to keep up with what I have to say. Perhaps you would be quicker if you abandoned the self-effacement, hmm?

[ituncleared]

Like I said, don't worry about me.

[mortestmamere]

Ah, maman, am I speaking to a parrot now? No? Just half a man, a shadow of an icon, with hardly anything of his own to say.

[ituncleared]

[She's starting to ring a little too similar to a crowd of people he left behind a few years ago. It's making him wish he wasn't dealing with her, which translates into his tone, and the relation he makes just serves as further proof that his subconscious is very intricately messing around today.]

Is that supposed to piss me off? Get some reaction? I'm kind of lost here.

[mortestmamere]

So slow, goodness, it is no true wonder at all that he has so little to show for his years. Do as you please, and I will do the same.

[ituncleared]

Yeah. I wouldn't want to keep you.

[Go away, unsettling manifestation of my subconscious, you hint too much.]

[mortestmamere]

I have nowhere to be, but I suppose I shall go look for your cat, yes? That would be polite of me after telling you what a sad excuse for a man you are. Perhaps you will be emboldened with the return of your familiar, hmm?

[Her smile is mean.]

[ituncleared]

[About ten years ago that would have earned her a considerable about of yelling and physical threats.]

God, just go already.

[mortestmamere]

Oh yes, I hear and obey, tiny king.

[ituncleared]

[He just mutters a very impatient Yeah, yeah, fishing for the damn button that'll turn this thing off. Click.]