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

[ossifragant]

[He really doesn't want to do this, but here he goes.]

Transmitter. I have some questions for you, if you have the time.

[transmittable]

We have nothing if not time. Go ahead, Authentic.

[ossifragant]

Is there some way you can explain the discrepancy in my memory?

I woke up here with people commenting on how ill I look-- and the last I remember, that's impossible for a multitude of reasons. After getting a look of myself in the mirror, it's pretty obvious they were right.

But the only way that's possible is if I'm one good breeze away from falling over dead. It's the sort of thing that only happens to my kind under extremely specific circumstances. I'm honestly not sure if you're aware or not, given how researched your profile on me is.

[transmittable]

We...

[ There's a pause. ]

We think we're familiar with what you're talking about. You're a unique one. It's hard to get facts about you mixed up with others.

As for your memory... We've spoken with some of the others about this as well, and we believe it's a side-effect of you being brought here. It's one we were hoping to avoid, and one we thought we'd fixed, but apparently not. We apologize.

[ossifragant]

[There's a pause of his own.]

I see.

I don't suppose there's anything you could do about that, or am I on my own?

It's not exactly something I'd share with the others either way.

[transmittable]

...We aren't really sure how we could help you. We can obtain...some things, but what you need- what we think you'd need-

We don't know.

We're sorry.

[ossifragant]

...Ah. Don't worry about it.

The process in obtaining them is.... [he trails off] At any rate, I'll just have to be careful, won't I?

[transmittable]

Alright. We hope...things go well for you, Authentic.

[ossifragant]

...Thanks, I think.

I'll be in touch if I can think of anything else.

[transmittable]

And we will be here.

[ossifragant]

...Actually, there is one thing I can think of.

Is it all right if I call you Misty, that nickname Gant came up with? I'm not exactly a fan of titles; they feel too impersonal for my liking.

[transmittable]

Others have taken to it as well, so we don't mind. We will be sticking to everyone's titles, though.

[ossifragant]

That's fine with me.