[network] @totheark; Text/Video; Night 75 (after lockdown), Good Night [open] [cw: impending death]

[0thingsonmymind]

i didnot want it to e n d like t h i s

*After that cheerful message the post switches over to video. Its notably dark and lit only by the tablet's backlight and starts with a shot of Brian's masked face. The red frowny face might seem more fitting than usual. After a few moments he swings the tablet around to show a piece of rubble that he's written "GOODBYE" on in blue crayon. It holds there for about 5-10 seconds before the post switches back to text.*

F)Q)>Gl

((ASCII85 code at the end translates to "sorry." Brian'll respond in text until he becomes too weak to do so.))

Comments

[bookofnope]

[... now that, that he was not expecting. Beckett wishes he could pause for longer, to take this in. He instantly understands the value, and the weight of the information. Tim was defensive over the video of the masked man in Brian's company... so that is why.

And if Brian does not return - can he do this to Tim? Give him this final push to the world that Tim insists so badly that he isn't falling into? It isn't his decision to make.]

I understand. If he needs help, he can come to me. He will not have to search alone. I will speak to him.

[He sees the conversation Brian and the masked Tim are having - an opportunity to reach out. It will have to do. There are things he won't promise, not even to ease a dying man's mind.]

I've been trying to make Other Time understand. Perhaps I will succeed eventually.

[0thingsonmymind]

thatis good
tha nk yo u

he doesnot want to
but he cannot fight for ev er

*He knows that first hand. Its just that he stopped fighting much quicker than Tim did, but maybe Tim'd grown up a resistance over the years.*

[bookofnope]

No - he cannot.

[Tim is human, and there is only so much that humans can ever do. And that is why Beckett is largely uninterested in them. But this man, who is caught so clearly in the middle...]

We will continue. The answers we seek here - and the Ark. If you can, be at peace.

[0thingsonmymind]

if ican i will
re turn
ifi cannot





thank you