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[sullenstallion]

Maybe this is a bad time?

[When Dylas starts the audio feed, he’s already not sure if he wants to do this. What a follows is a long sigh before he actually begins speaking in earnest.]

Hey. I know everyone’s sick. It’s pretty bad. I’m sure you all know some of the symptoms, but maybe you guys have been feeling something else, too? Something happened to me last month. Er, has been...happening.

[There’s a long, uncomfortable pause. He doesn’t know what he’s doing.]

I mean, maybe your body is changing. Doing things it couldn’t before. Maybe...being more sensitive. Maybe you’re noticing something different about yourself that you didn’t before? Something that doesn’t line up with the symptoms? If that happens, you should talk to the Orbiters. [Another pause. Ugh. He hates doing this, seriously.] They can apparently change our bodies without asking. They, uh. Can give us things that weren’t there before.

[He’s clearly not wanting to go into any details. Or maybe it’s not clear. He’s just this deep, masculine voice who sounds sort of confused about how to address large groups.]

So if you start feeling weird outside of the sickness or weren’t sick before, it might be that your body is going through new changes.

[Another long pause.]

It’s not puberty. I’ve already done that.

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[sullenstallion]

[Just to switch things up here, Dylas accidentally clicks over to video after a lot of people have responded. Congrats, you're speaking to a scarred horseman with golden eyes.]

Yeah. It's beautiful. [He appreciates how bitter this man sounds.] Do you have any questions, too? My senses are stronger than they used to be. That was going to be your next question, right?

[hannya]

[He wishes he could still be surprised by shit like this.]

I was gonna ask if you heard of this happenin' to anyone else.

[sullenstallion]

Nope. I'm the only one as far as I know, but it's not like I go out of my way to ask people if their body feels funny.

[He also hasn't even asked his friends, so. It's just an awkward topic to bring up.]

[hannya]

Fair enough.

Ain't a comfortin' thing to think about, anyway. Thought they were all about bein' hands off.

[sullenstallion]

Yeah. That's what I thought, too. I thought I was sick when my ears and nose started getting all sensitive to new things, and I wouldn't have even thought to ask them if someone had pointed it out to me.

[hannya]

I guess not tellin' you is "hands off." Hate to know what they think a slap on the wrist is.

[sullenstallion]

...That's a thought. Have they ever tried to punish any of us? Would we even know if they had?

[hannya]

I'll be honest, Darma doesn't seem like the type. They went through a lot of effort to let us run wild in the first place. But that's definitely fuckin' weird.

Sorry for the late reply!

[sullenstallion]

I'm not good at thinking like them, you know? I'm...normal. People with a lot of power, sometimes they want more. But you're right, it doesn't really make sense.