✾ 『 third hit 』 | accidental voice

[neverplays]

[ There's the strain of an empty line, white noise as a steady pulse. A minute or so lapses until a voice finally speaks. ]

You'd be proud of me.

... Proud of us. The dumbass helped, you know, helped with a lot of dumb luck but we-

[ more static, though it's not silence on her end. ]

We finally did it, like you would have done.

[ ... ]It

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[prefers_chess]

[Deploying attempt at tact in three...two...one...]

Your device is recording.

[neverplays]

[ And there's just the smash and clatter of a device crashing against a wall, speared with a sharp bursts of profanity. ]

[prefers_chess]

[So much for tact.]

Ow.

[neverplays]

Go away.

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[adeadringer]

[ elena's not sure whether or not someone's already told her she's recording, or if she should intrude on this. but she remembers hearing her mother, and so: ]

Your, um - it's recording.

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[neverplays]

Don't you think I know by now?

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[adeadringer]

I just figured I would tell you, in case no one else had.

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[neverplays]

What can I do about it now? It recorded, people heard.

One day I'll break this fucking thing, and aim it at a deity's head.

[ Then there's laughing on her end, laughing at something uttered by a ghost. ]

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[adamantined]

Hey. You okay?

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[neverplays]

[ a strained pause. no point in hissing about the accidental communicator right now. ]

I'm fine. [ another pause ] Really.

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[adamantined]

Curses like this are never really easy.

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[neverplays]

He's dead, if that's what you want to ask.

[freckleddoll]

[not saying anything, but it's good to hear someone who cared about her father. Who had a good father, it sounds like.]

[neverplays]

[ Horrible in the eyes of most others, but what does external opinion matter over her perspective.

He was the kindest Daddy ever. ]

[freckleddoll]

[If Mindy thinks he was? Then Doll would say he was. Anyone who could call a loved parent horrible doesn't know what a horrible parent really is like. It's not for nothing that she spent the whole day terrified hers would turn up.]