[network][open]Voice @Enoch; And again, a scream in his head (Day 162)

[warriorscribe]

[The audio post begins abruptly. No introduction. No period of adjusting or testing the mic. Enoch just starts talking, sounding extremely disquieted.]

I-I'm hearing something else, under the screams. I know it sounds insane, and it may only be a hallucination or a trick, but-...

[He stops, trying to push down that uneasy feeling in the pit of his stomach. He's asking no one, it tells him. There's no one there to help. But there is, there has to be, all the events that happened because of Clayton's presence, because of Frisk's and Quark's and Toriel's, they had to be real.]

...but if it's not, I'll never be able to forgive myself for ignoring it. Anyone along the eastern edge of the snow wall or in the eastern tunnels, please watch out for a young girl...or her spirit, more likely. I can hear her, she's terrified, she's calling for help, for her parents... All that I know is she is farther east than we are.

Please try to help her if you see her. Wherever she is, if she is, I cannot reach her.

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[warriorscribe]

[Enoch is lucky, in a way. Lucky that this technology isn't something he was raised on. Lucky that static is just a visual distortion and not necessarily indicative of faulty transmissions, fake things. The increasing sense of unease that the familiar voice of a friend he's made in his time here doesn't really exist is bad enough without the distortions backing it up.]

What was that? The girl ------- distraught and afraid, ------- seem so? -- you -- -nk ------ her?

[bookofnope]

[There is a pause, full of ragged breathing, as Beckett tries both to parse the questions and answer them. He's tried to chase the vision and failed, and getting up to try it again is deeply wearying. He's so tired, to move for something that isn't real.]

I ca▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ her face under the cloak. She doesn't ▒▒▒▒▒ me to see her. I don't think - I don't know what ▒▒▒▒▒ wants from me.

[warriorscribe]

Surely it can't be the same girl? Someone crying out for help wouldn't hide from you. What does she do if you try to get a clear look?

[bookofnope]

▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ evading m▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ too fast. I'm too we▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ can do to stop her drawing. She draws the e▒▒▒▒ everywhere. It's everywhere.

[warriorscribe]

Are the ---- hurting---?

[And again, the static cuts in so sharply he can hardly be heard at all over it. Part of him thinks, surely, if this is a grand collapse of this illusion of having other people with him, of course it would be strongest with someone like Beckett, as surely as strong as the visual distortions are affecting Frisk and Toriel.]

[bookofnope]

No - not pain - ▒▒▒ trapping me in the ci▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ the eyes, she ▒▒ants to surrou▒▒▒▒ - can't let her ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ have to ▒▒▒▒▒▒ her stop-

[Static mixes with the noise of stumbling movement, the tablet hitting something, Beckett making a low animal sound of frightened anger.]

[warriorscribe]

[That doesn't sound good at all. Enoch's stomach clenches in instinctive fear for a friend he can't protect (he, after all, still feels very strongly for people he knows aren't real, such as in a work of fiction).]

Beckett? What's hap-------, wh-- ------ doing?

[bookofnope]

I can't let her trap me. [That comes in full, a horrified rasp cutting through the static.]

I can't sleep, I can't ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ in her circle. If she'll ▒▒▒▒▒▒ the▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ be no escape. This is hell. I knew this is hell -

[warriorscribe]

Circle? Beckett, wh----, she's not ------------kelihood, how can she-...

[The rest is lost in static. He's frantic, trying to get more answers, and the static is loath to let him ask questions.]

[bookofnope]

[And Beckett, on his part, is dissolving even without the static. It's all closing in on him, all of it at once.]

I knew ▒▒▒▒ my punishment, this is all that's left, she ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ and the circle is the end - this is the end - how could I think I ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ sorry, Lucita, I'm sorry, you were ri▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ what I deserve, in the end...

[warriorscribe]

[That doesn't sound good. That doesn't sound good at all. What can he do? What's happening to Beckett? He's not even sure what's happening.]

---kett!? Is she----------? Can you escape?