[network] @hotstud_xxx, Late Night 190, audio [open]

[rubikscomplex]

[It's almost midnight when House's message goes out. He sounds honestly terrified. His hands are shaking too much to type, and he's too frantic to think of voice-to-text. There's also the music. He can hear it. He can't tell where it's coming from, but it's there and it's fading in and out with the static and a whisper that he can just make out.

It would probably be better to see to his wounds first, but that's secondary at the moment.]

The music. Who's hearing the music and the static? Have anyone's eyes changed? Who can hear it?

[He sings the first few lines.]

Lavender's blue, dilly dilly, lavender's green...

It's Andromeda's song for Winter. It's the song in the apartment with the knives. The Jedi heard it, too. His eyes or his hand set it off.

Who can hear it?

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[phaseshifter]

I can't be sure if we all started at exactly the same time, but more or less. Um. Are - are you going to snap at me if I tell you to calm down? Because you sound a lot like you need to.

[rubikscomplex]

We've got the opening number for a couple of dead, lesbian AIs playing in our heads, some people are starting to get that Prophety urge again, and that song's playing in a house with a couple of giant butcher knives dug into the wall hard enough to go through metal.

No human could do that. What about a machine?

[phaseshifter]

Of course a machine could do that. It'd need significant power behind it, but even extremely primitive machinery could achieve such things. Think catapults or ballistae. Clearly that's not applicable to this situation, but. You know. For reference.

If you're asking if an android could do it - maybe. Probably. Since Winter and Andromeda were built to blend in I'd assume they weren't half as strong as the robots back home, but they might still be able to achieve something like that. This is why we didn't bother much with android-style robots. Function over form, always. Geez.

[ HERE COMES THE RAMBLING ]

[rubikscomplex]

[House doesn't really care about your robo-rambling, Angel.]

We need someone to get to that apartment. Something's gonna happen there. One set of each eyes. Cover the bases--glowing, Prophet, normal.