v. voice

[scalesandstuff]

[There are so many voices, so many new people. He's concluded that the voices from the seal sound a little differently than they do when he speaks to them in person, so the fear that he might have missed someone he knows in the stream of new arrivals increases. That, and how the memory of their voices becomes a little fuzzier every week...]

Cam? Daneen? Are you here? It's me, Bernie-!

[a pause. Surely she wouldn't go unnoticed, but...]

... Mother?