Voice | username: No

[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.

Comments

voice / username REDLIONRIGHTHAND

[emblazes]

[While he doesn't recognize the username, he recognizes the voice. He'd remember anyone who ditched him in the middle of a good deed and proceeded to pants him at next sight.]

You mean like hearing things louder than they should be?

[Son of a..........]

voice!

[vacuum]

Yeah? You sure about that? Could be an alien-puberty.

[ he's ... joking. ]

voice | un: catalyst

[badgerlock]

What kind of changes?

voice; un: mai

[maipokerface]

... Change our bodies?

[Her tone is somewhere between confusion and incredulous.]

voice | username: xXx_trueblue_xXx

[competing]

Hold up — why would they do that??

voice; un: carida

[jeronimo]

That's a lot of maybes and roundabout phrases. Want to try elaborating on that?

What do you mean they can change us?

[Alarm bells are going off all over the place for Cassian. His words are clipped but neutral.]

voice; un: dragonslayer

[uwe]

[ he really doesn't know how to use a device properly, but even so... ]

Ah, hello again. Dylas correct?

[ it sounds like him anyway. siegfried himself is rather sick, though it's been slower to affect him. all the same, listening to dylas's explanation was strangely fascinating. or maybe it was fascinating because he's kind of delirious? either way. ]

I hadn't realized the Orbiters could do something like that. Does this mean your body has changed somehow?

[ ...hm, that's more or less all he has to say, but he's not sure how to finish this, so... ]

Sincerely, Siegfried.

voice; un: flowerknight

[triplerose]

Beg your pardon?

[ The confusion - and disbelief - is evident in his voice. Of course, they helped him get rid of a particularly nasty scar, but to change a body ... ]

audio | un: mad-dog

[hannya]

Without askin', huh?

[A long sigh.]

That's just beautiful.

voice / username: pholia

[baguablade]

To what extent have they started changing bodies?

[ His voice is carefully neutral, but not without a note of concern. ]