58 - Phone

[ceasetoexist]

I lived through it. All of it.

I guess when I first got here I would have said that to brag, but now I guess I want to say....I dunno. That if that's their worst? It can still be beaten.

God. I don't know. I suck at being all "blah blah hope blah blah it'll be fine" since it's usually bullcrap. But I guess I'm just saying. What happened sucked, but it's not like...the most hopeless thing ever.

They're scared. That's what I think. It's why they went this far. I dunno if we're on to something but we must have done something right to make them do something that drastic.

Because you know what I think? They're demanding we be thankful? They need us to. I don't know why yet, but it's necessary for whatever system they've got going on. Think about it. The demand for conformity, the droning to what's desired if we don't. They need us to be here and act a specific way, because if we don't....well, I dunno. I think that it's that if we exist here for long enough, not doing what they want? We compromise their system. They need us to behave a certain way or something doesn't stick, or the stability of this place'll start going off, or something.

That's what I think.

Hey. Idiots. And I'm pretty sure you know which ones I'm talking to? Not that I care or anything, but call me if you can, y'know, manage to use the phone.

Comments

[bread_goes_bip]

I'm glad you got through all of that.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Yeah.

I don't think we met before the lair. I'm Pokey.

[bread_goes_bip]

Good to hear from you under a bit better circumstances. I'm Death. You can call me Didi if that's easier.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

...I thought the skeleton guy was Death.

[bread_goes_bip]

Apparently the town has a bit of a sense of humour. He's Death for the Discworld. I'm Death for... well, it doesn't really have a name, but the world Eddie is from.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Huh. Well, we've got plenty of death here to need two around, I guess.

[bread_goes_bip]

Neither of us is on duty here. THings would be different if we were. But... we do what we can.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

...Did you hear about the Dairy, in March? Have you been here that long?

[bread_goes_bip]

I did. It... worries me. Both of us, really.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

...Yeah. Me too.

I hope they're lying to us.

[bread_goes_bip]

Me too. If they really can do that, this is even worse than we feared.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

I don't know about it on any cosmic scale, and don't care.

I just know that...no one in there deserves what they're doing to people in there.