[The first time Paul watches the message, he closes it unanswered. What can he say to it with his untorn traitor tongue? And there is so much else he has to do, and no time in which to see it done.
The second time, he pauses it on her silence at the end, her hair frozen in pale cirrus clouds around her face. He wonders if she knew she'd be dead by now. If she understands what he was trying, so hideously, to protect her from. If she still thinks everything unfolds in the right direction.]
2022.07.07 | voice [1/2]
The second time, he pauses it on her silence at the end, her hair frozen in pale cirrus clouds around her face. He wonders if she knew she'd be dead by now. If she understands what he was trying, so hideously, to protect her from. If she still thinks everything unfolds in the right direction.]
Understood.
[A quiet, toneless rasp.]