eachdraidh | second trial. | voice (unlocked)

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second trial. | voice (unlocked)

[ 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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[Just don't electrocute any elephants named Topsy.]

It is what I've heard as well; though some people seem disinclined to believe that statement.

[ no elephants just getting all of his friends killed ]

Yeah. I'm a little skeptical, myself. [ he pauses. ] But, this place can bring people back from the dead, so--I guess it's not completely implausible.

I suppose not.

[Though that does bring up an interesting question for her.

She knows this is so far off the topic of nightmares, but Thomas seems to want a distraction, so she shall provide.]

When people return, are they wholly themselves?

Return from the dead? [ thomas frowns on his end, and it's clear in his voice: teresa is his first thought, here and alive and everything thomas ever could have asked for. ] I think so. The person I know...I haven't seen anything different about her.

[ ooh but now you've hit his curiosity. ] Why'd you ask?

There is a line from a Shelly poem, I always remember.

[For complicated, horrible reasons.]

"No more let Life divide what Death can join together"

That is what this place has done in some ways, has it not?

[But that is avoiding and not answering his question. So onward.]

Some believe we lose something decidedly us when we die. Even revived [A vampire, a monster, something else entire...] we are missing something key.

But perhaps they are all wrong.

Or only that this place allows the dead to return, whole and healthy.

[Yet not able to remove curses.]

[ UN................SURE....................... ]

Do you come from a place where people come back from the dead often? [ because that definitely Does Not happen where Thomas is from--there's a twinge of him that wishes it would, but with the way she talks about it, maybe not. ]

No, they do not.

[And she is not sure if that is the answer he wants to hear.]

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