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[unironically]

[ She has spent the better part of the day attempting to get the mobile phone to work. Thinking this must surely be some divine labour that she has been given, however, Gorgo sticks to it until finally, she manages to hit the right combination of buttons and start the video function.

Don't ask her to try writing on this thing, though. Her face appears halfway out of focus, cut off by the frame of the phone's camera. ]

Hello?

Am I communicating clearly now? Who is listening?

[ That is it. Where she is from, communication is at a slower pace, more direct, face to face. If this is the closest she can get, so be it. ]

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[yearnsforheaven]

[His reply comes over video, but since he doesn't want his maskless face to appear on video, the camera is aimed at the ceiling.]

I can hear you.

[unironically]

[ This doesn't seem to bother her. Voices speaking out of the air, unseen entities and creatures - they are a reality to her. ]

And who is speaking?

[yearnsforheaven]

[He hesitates for a moment. He's not ready to give out his name yet. No one has called him by it for years, and he doesn't feel like a person, with a name, right now. He's still just a...story told to terrify ballet girls.]

...A ghost.