intro | day 104

[tacosgay]

Listen.

[The voice that comes over the public channel is... odd, and new to most folks here. He pauses for a bit, as if that's the entire thought-- but, sure enough, he follows it with an obviously annoyed question.]

So we're just kind of... here, because they say so? Like... this can't be legal, can it? Has anybody tried talking to the fuckin' police about this?

[As he speaks, he gets increasingly irritated, his voice breaking.]

I'm gonna be real with you guys: I've got half a mind to just kinda magic my way out, except I'm pretty sure the Ringleader or whatever would come after me. Is that a thing?

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[periphrasing]

It probably won't be. I mean... Bad stuff does happen sometimes? Like, recently, I got abducted and brain-washed by vampires, and that was pretty horrible. I'm still trying to work through my garbage emotions about it to this day!

[She supplies all of this in a VERY MATTER-OF-FACT manner. Too bright, too eager sounding for such a heavy topic.]

[tacosgay]

Uh... yyyikes. Does that kinda stuff happen a lot? Or, like, was that the exception and not the rule?

[UHHH. She's not doing a great job of reassuring him here.]

[periphrasing]

It's more the exception. I mean, that sort of thing happened once before, but the second time was sort of a continuation of that, so. The argument could be made that, really, it's only happened once.