|01| to catch a monster, we make a movie

[seesyou]

[The hallway monitor at first picks up nothing but the window behind it. And then a low buzzing begins, and the image on the screen seems to split for a moment, the bottom segment blurring

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[Video]

[reckless_eagle]

[Poland gives his communicator a strange look, then turns it upside down and shakes it.]

Um? Like, what's wrong with this thing?

[Video]

[seesyou]

[Nothing but the black-and-white speckles and soft hiss of static snow.]

[Video]

[reckless_eagle]

[Since Poland's only contact with technology more complex than... whatever the Hell they had before the printing press has been in the mansion, he's somewhat befuddled. He's never seen this before D=]

Ohmigawd, is it broken?

[Poke. Poke, poke! Fffff, is Liet gonna scold him if he broke the communicator? Maybe it'll fix if he shakes it again...]

[audio]

[40410]

[He was prepared for this. He saw it coming. He--

--is pants-wettingly terrified. When a hurricane arrives at your door, who gives a shit that you watched the weather report?

Even the forest of cameras around him does little to bolster his morale. He's pretty sure he had something to say, maybe it was even commanding or impressive, but what comes out of his open mouth is a tiny sob of fear.]

[audio]

[seesyou]

found you

say hell0

[audio]

[40410]

[Alex clenches his teeth, shakes his head, tries so hard to recapture the confidence he felt only days ago. He's sort of forgotten to breathe.]

[text/video]

[seesyou]

0pen your eyes

[Because now the Operator is at the window again, too-long fingers resting against the sill, peering eyelessly inward, his head tilted as if in curiosity.]