[network] @Ecks | it's alive!!!! | day 429 | video [open]

[ecks]

[The feed opens on a view of ceiling tiles; anyone familiar with the hospital might recognize them. Off-screen there's the sound of rustling food wrappers and the crunch of someone chewing on chips and cookies, quite possibly with her mouth open.]

I am alive again. The anomalies -- the anomalies are dangerous. The ones with our friends' faces are dangerous.

[The monotone is muffled as well as hesitant; she's talking with food in her mouth despite the gravity of the topic.]

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@duster, audio; private

[bywolves]

Ecks. [ His voice is hoarse and relieved. ] Ecks.

[ It's a little like waking up again, seeing her alive again. ] Are you alright?

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[ecks]

[Her hand scrabbles for the tablet, dropping crumbs across the screen and camera as she actually lifts it to see and be seen. Her mouth spreads in a broad, toothy smile.]

I am alright, Royce Melborn. You are still alive. Is Alfie Solomons still alive?

permaprivate

[bywolves]

We're both still alive. [ Barely. ] It's good to see you. I - I always...

[ He falters, and then clears his throat. ] Do you have a price? Do you know it?

[ecks]

I must have a price. There is always a price.

My hand is still gone. I hoped when I woke up that I would have both hands.

I am very hungry, Royce Melborn.

[devoutish]

[From the background of Royce's message:]

Yeah, I'm here, I'm all right.

@ASolomons; audio; private

[devoutish]

Where are you? Shall we come pick you up?

audio; private

[ecks]

[She heard him on the other feed; if he was watching he would have seen a real smile.]

I am at the hospital. Where are you? I want to see you and Royce again. Do you have food?

audio; private

[devoutish]

We've got enough to spare some for you.

[But overall, no, they don't have a lot of food.]

audio; private

[ecks]

I ate almost all of my food. I do not have enough food.

@hotstud_xxx; voice-to-text

[rubikscomplex]

I'd say welcome back to the land of the living, but it pretty much sucks here. Which one did you run into?

>text | cw reference to gore; disembowelment; cannibalism

[ecks]

[And here the video feed abruptly cuts out.]

you tore me open

cw's from above will continue

[rubikscomplex]

[House stares at the message. He should probably apologize. It wasn't him that did anything, but that would be the subjectively nice thing to do. If he were a better person, he might even just sign off and tell her he's around when she's ready to talk.

But he isn't.]

What did it look like? Apart from like me?

[ecks]

it was broken
it was ice and it was broken and i hate it

i hate it

@hexappeal, video

[sleight_of_fate]

Yeah, we're trying to gather info on them. Some are more dangerous than others, but they're all pretty messed up.

[He can't stay on topic for long, though, without saying the more sentimental crap. Get it out of the way.

he's starting to feel the shift of things.]

Welcome back, Ecks. I'm glad to know that you're back and okay now. Have you got your animals with you?

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[ecks]

I am back but I am not certain that I am okay. My hand is still gone. I am hungry. I am very hungry. Dying was very painful. It was not very fast. It was faster than sometimes but it was not fast enough.

I have my animals. That part is good.

[sleight_of_fate]

I'm glad you have your animals, at least. Sorry about everything else.

Can you get to someone soon, or is someone coming to meet you?

[ecks]

I think I am going to go meet Royce Melborn and Alfie Solomons because they are my friends now instead of enemies and also they are closer than many people and also they need to not be alone.

@bucky; text

[advanced]

[She won't be able to hear the long exhale of relief on seeing her username, but it's there all the same. He's been worried about you, murder friend.]

Which one got you?

[A moment's pause, and then:]

It's good to see you alive.

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[ecks]

doctor House
the one that looks like DoctorHouse




itdoes not have his soul

[advanced]

I'm sorry.

I know it's scary, but do you think you could answer a few questions for me? To make sure other people stay safe.

[ecks]

I can answer questions if I know the answers to the questions

@Spoiler; video

[spoileralert]

Oh, Ecks...

[ It’s easy enough to tell what happened, and Steph can sympathize. ]

I’m sorry that happened to you.

cw gore and cannibalism

[ecks]

He said he was my friend. He said that he was my friend and that he was the real House and that he had a soul and that he wanted to talk and then he tore me open and he ate me and I died and --

[spoileralert]

Jesus-

Hey. Breathe. Okay?

This doesn't mean anything about the real House, you know that, right?

[ecks]

[She cuts off and there's just the sound of fast but very deliberate breathing for a moment or two before she has to comment again.]

There was another one that looked like me. She thought that my things were her things.