Twenty-First Voice (voicepost/actionpost)

[beast_unbound]

They've all come together to kill us. Yes. This is how they'll do it, by driving us to madness, by poisoning our neurons, but burning them out with this dripping, this clicking, ticking, back and forth of a pendulum so large we can't hear it, only feel it, and it shakes us like a cannon blast has pierced us and rippled out and out once, twice, over

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[obliviomancy]

Nagarov?

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[beast_unbound]

...You. Fire-creature. Non-human darkness. What do you (grating breath) want?

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[obliviomancy]

What happened to you?

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[beast_unbound]

Can you hear it, can't you, the sound of it in your mind, shaking your bones? The infernal clock...it has been the only thing in our mind, for so long...

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[obliviomancy]

The ticking. You're going crazy because of the ticking.

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[beast_unbound]

You must hear it as well -- the one who is always alone, who needs no other, who feels nothing. Do you know what it feels like to have your mind torn out by the rhythm?

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[obliviomancy]

I got a fish. It made things a little more quiet.

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[beast_unbound]

The cats aren't doing us much good. We were holed away for a long time. The voices don't help, either...the louder the ticking, the fainter they become.

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[obliviomancy]

So find some people. Stay close.

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[beast_unbound]

Your fish won't live forever.

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[obliviomancy]

Then I'll get more. I'm only keeping them to stop the ticking.

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[beast_unbound]

If you want a place in the Warehouse, we will leave you be. We have much space there.

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[obliviomancy]

Wait. Why can't you just get a pet?