SWITCHBOARD

[transmittable]

If you'd like to ask the Transmitter something over the phone, go right ahead! The Transmitter will answer the phone as soon as she's available. Leaving messages is impossible, given how old these phones are, but you should be able to reach her at almost all hours.

Comments are screened for privacy; all Patients are offered confidentiality, didn't you know?

Comments

[cadmiums]

Oh? I can't wait to see. [ More places to go and see is always good.]

Ah, can I be honest? [ But it's a rhetorical question and he continues, though the hesitation is clear in his voice.] Sometimes I can't remember a lot about my past, so maybe I have. I'm not really sure.

[transmittable]

Oh.

I was wondering if that was something you were dealing with. I know...some things about you. I have to, to have put those profiles together, and I know some of you have talked about inconsistencies. I just wasn't sure how it was affecting you.

[cadmiums]

Does that mean you know what an appriser is?

[transmittable]

Sort of...? It was hard for me to hold on to. Uh. It's hard to keep everything straight.

[cadmiums]

Yeah, that must have been difficult writing profiles for all of us.

[...]

I'm sorry, I feel like I've asked you so many questions today. Would you like to ask me something instead?

[transmittable]

It's okay. There's a lot to ask questions about...and there's still a lot you don't know about me.

Uh... I don't know, though, what about... What do you do for fun? If you weren't here... If both of us weren't here, what would you want to do?

[cadmiums]

Whenever you want to tell me more, I'd love to hear it. [ But as for the question...]

I'd want to go somewhere outside... maybe an amusement park or a music festival. Somewhere we could experience something new and create good memories.

[transmittable]

I'd love a music festival. Ohh, it's been so long since I've been to a concert. There's more to do at an amusement park, though. That'd be...a good early date.

[cadmiums]

Sometimes they have concerts at amusement parks, right? If we're lucky we could go on the rides until it gets dark, and then listen to a concert together at night.

[transmittable]

They do! Wouldn't have to really worry about getting seats either, they make sure those things have a lot of room.

What, uh... What kind of music do you like?

[cadmiums]

That sounds like a perfect date.

Ah, I'm not sure what kind I like the best. My friend is always listening to music when we're not in class, so I usually just grab an earbud and listen to whatever he has on. If I had to pick... classical I think. But I like listening to everything, if it's with someone special.

[transmittable]

Classical, huh? Yeah, that seems to scan. Usually I, uh...find it boring, but...listening with someone else, that could make a few degrees higher of cool.

[cadmiums]

Scan?

...do you think we could do that here? Listen to music together.

[transmittable]

Oh, it's, uh- it's like an expression? ...A weird way to...word? It means it makes sense, basically. I'm not a words-person so I can't really explain it, but it's a thing and I've heard it around, sooo...

[ The Transmitter trails off. ]

A-anyway, uhh. I don't know? ...I think there's some music-stuff in the vending machine. It'd have to be playing on your side.

[cadmiums]

Oh that's cool, I've never heard it before.

I'll put in all my coins and see if I get lucky, then! [ Cause man does he have a lot.] It wouldn't be as good as going to a concert together, but I think it would be nice to have a date like that with you.

[transmittable]

It does sound nice, doesn't it? ...Okay, future date idea. Here's to you getting lucky then!

[ ...wait a moment that's, uh. she sputters. ]

Forthevendingmachine! Obviously.

[cadmiums]

[ Okay he can't help but laugh for a few seconds before he responds, with all the bravado of a sixteen year old boy.]

Unless it's with you, I don't think I'd be interested~.

[transmittable]

[ RIP Ryoji's ears because the feedback grows unbelievably loud, providing a nice harmony to the Transmitter's mortified wail. ]

It's only the second date and my foot's already stuck in my throat, this sucks!

[cadmiums]

Ahh!! [ That is loud but-]

Hahaha, I think it's quite endearing. You're really cute, Mita-chan.

[transmittable]

You know, I'm realizing something. I get...regularly flustered, for a teenage girl with below average dating experience, but you seem unflappable. I don't find that fair.

[cadmiums]

Do you want to know the secret to flustering me?

[transmittable]

...You would just hand me that kind of ammunition? Really?

[ From the excited tone to her voice, it seems like the answer is yes. ]

[cadmiums]

I don't think I could turn down a request from you.

[ There's a moment before he replies-- he had said so teasingly, but now that it's been asked he can't help but to answer seriously.]

No one has ever really flustered me before, but I feel like you could. When I think about going on more dates with you, my heart beats fast. But that's not really an answer, is it? So I guess the truth is I don't really know, sorry.

But you've come really close.

[transmittable]

[ ... ]

I could be the first, huh? I think I like hearing that even more than a definite answer.

[ Her next words are soft, almost lost beneath the static. ]

Hey, uh. Can you tell me... How to pronounce your name?

[cadmiums]

Yeah, I think you will be.

[ Which is almost immediately proven when he hears the next question, the surprise clear in his voice. He says his name slowly, enunciating the syllables as clearly as he can.]

Ree-oh-jee Moh-chee-zoo-kee.