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

[transmittable]

How can you be sure she's feeling and experiencing and not just...assimilating? Is that it?

[nachetanya]

Yes.

[ She frowns. ]

... I know Tsubasa had a goal, to see the world. I know she is her own person, she has a past and preferences in some department - the look in her eyes when we speak about intellectual things is gorgeous. But when she says she has no dislikes when it comes to people she would be attracted to, or things like that-

It's a worry I believe you can understand why I'd have.

[transmittable]

How can one person not...have a preference, right? How can you know she's being- truthful, with you, or omitting things.

Have you been honest with her?

[nachetanya]

You know the answer to that.

[ She's been as truthful as she feels she can be. Obviously, she's not said that she's the Seventh, or the true nuance of her ambitions. About Dozzu or any of the other things she's done beyond being one of the Six Flowers.

But she's been honest in most else. ]

[transmittable]

I do.

What do you think she'd say if she learned of that?

[nachetanya]

Honestly...

[ She hums, and shifts how she's sitting, letting go of what she was stirring the mixture of lemon and water with to pick up the phone. ]

I think it would be something like "I see, so that's what you want." I don't think that she'd agree with my choices, but she'd probably accept them. She might even be willing to keep them a secret for me. Her ambition isn't particularly strong, from what I can tell.

[transmittable]

And...what do you think about that? What's a lack of ambition mean to you in a person?

[nachetanya]

It means that person hasn't found who they truly are. I... ideally I would want Tsubasa to discover that but for me to still have a place near her.

[transmittable]

It could take time. For a person to discover who they are, that could take...a lot of time.

[nachetanya]

Time...

Everything keeps coming back to time here. Or maybe that's just my own fixation.

[transmittable]

We understand a focus on time, Assertive.

[nachetanya]

And I'm impatient by comparison.

[transmittable]

You are. But that's only natural.

[nachetanya]

One more question for now, I think... I want to get into the shower.

Do you feel bad for Tsubasa, to be the target of affection from a woman like me?

[transmittable]

I feel that...if she likes you too, what's there to feel bad for?

[nachetanya]

[ there's a lot which can be said to that - but she wasn't lying, she does want to get the smell of ash out of her hair. She stands ]

Yes, I suppose you're right.

Goodnight, Misty.

[transmittable]

Goodnight, Assertive.