❃ 003; (video; english)

[venomize]

(The view from the communicator is tilted, its supposed subject out of the frame almost completely, save for a pair of bare legs

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[inyourgarden]

[Well at least she's not hurting herself. ...Just acting in a disturbing fashion. Could be worse? But he'd rather make sure it doesn't get worse.]

Hey! You still with it?

[mansae]

[ Doesn't matter that he won't get responded to. He feels the need to talk. Constantly. ]

"Make him pay"? Japan hasn't paid me, either!

some of us can be on time B|

[idkmybffmrhat]

Dahlia? What's wrong?

(voice) I like to be different :>

[venomize]

(Here, Trucy, have some more pounding on the wall - which is getting louder and louder with each hit - and the same mindless, guttural mumbling.)

[voice] one word for it. <:

[idkmybffmrhat]

[ ... ]

W-What's the matter? You'll hurt yourself doing that!

[turneverystone]

Dahlia Hawthorne.

(voice)

[venomize]

(For the moment, Mia, all you're getting is an ear-splitting shriek that lasts for a good fifteen seconds.)

[voice]

[turneverystone]

[Mia waits it out, on the brink of exhaustion]

(voice)

[venomize]

(Unfortunately, Mia gets no reply, only Dahlia's fervent whispering, which, while it's getting louder, is also getting more and more frantic, which does nothing for its intelligibility.)

[dividend]

Do-- ... Dahlia.

(video)

[venomize]

(Any other time, that slip would've made her twisted little heart swell with joy, but she's way too out of it right now to take any satisfaction from it.

The reply comes a few minutes later; the feed switches on, and the view twirls around a few times, nauseatingly, until coming to a stop on Dahlia's face, which looks ashen and distant. She stares for a few moments, dull-eyed, before responding:)

Phoenix.

(voice)

[dividend]

... where are you?

(voice)

[venomize]

(Chuckling humorlessly, she drops the communicator on the ground, and her reply sounds distant and muffled:)

Ask ░░▒ again and I'll ░░▒▓▓░░ you.

(Most of it's intelligible, except for the penultimate word - was it 'tell'? 'Kill'? Either way, she cuts off the feed after that.)