second trial. | voice (unlocked)

[greenies]

[ thomas has not been a common presence on the network since his arrival to the drabwurld; gaining the ability to talk telepathically with the people who've been close to him have made it fairly easy for him to communicate without it. but this time, thomas addresses the network at large, although only with a (perhaps semi-familiar) voice.

he sounds uneasy. tired. ]

Do any of you have nightmares? How do you deal with them?

[ it's a stab at anonymity, mostly because he doesn't want to show his face, but the storms currently raging over head have not made his life any easier. thomas sleeps fitfully, twenty minutes at a time, wakes up screaming. no one's going to see his face as an effect of that. eventually, he tacks on a soft--]

Thanks. [ --and the line goes dead. ]

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[greenies]

Thomas. [ bless you, dorian. thomas is not good with people and it's already starting to show. the smile's pretty obvious in his voice, too, even if its faint. ] Thomas...Edison, I guess. Or Murphy. Either one.

[ that part of the name wasn't his. "thomas edison" was a WICKED scientist and engineer. thomas murphy was an escaped munie pretending to hide from WICKED. he felt more comfortable with murphy than he ever had with edison, but more than anything else, just thomas was the person who he was today, good decisions and bad and all. ]

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Oh! Like the inventor. What do you prefer? [Dorian is getting better at remembering to ask that, now; there are so many different customs here that he realizes he cannot just address a person by their surname until they were on familiar enough terms to refer to one another by their Christian names.

(He doesn't want Buffy to compare him to an old lady again.)]

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[greenies]

Yeah. [ he winces a little, lucky for the video not to be on. it's not his name and never will be his name, but thomas was the one he owned. tommy, tom too, but those are special.

he smiles a little, covering the wince. ] Just Thomas is fine.