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If you'd like to ask the Transmitter something over text, go right ahead! The Transmitter will respond to texts messages as soon as she's available. You will likely get a text back very quickly.

Your tablet device will only reach the Transmitter. There is no option to send texts to anyone else, instead it will connect to automatically to her phone.

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

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[cthulwho]

i see
i will try not to take it personally

but i do not understand the point
were you trying to do something else?

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sort of? i can't really explain it.

[cthulwho]

[He wonders if this is worth pursuing. This has never happened before so it's...weird.

But he did get the information he really needed for the time being (he is not completely barred from the pool which is important) so maybe he won't.]

well
thank you for answering my questions at least
i am not sure how to explain it myself but... [He types the ellipses in.] it is one of my only comforts here

[Comfort and fairness is obviously not the point of this game. He knows that. But...at this point, he's taking what he can get.

There's a considerable pause after this, but he eventually follows up with an awkward subject transition.]

i apologize for not speaking with you more
ryoji and asgore recommended that i at least get to know you
but

[...]

things happened
and i did not want to talk much

[transmittable]

of course. i can't fault you for that.

[ A pause. ]

i didn't really want to talk to anyone either for awhile.

[cthulwho]

it really did bother you?

[Not really desiring a full explanation since talking about it is still rough, he just...wants to know. He didn't know much about Sakura's relationship with the Transmitter, only through what happened during that trial...and the notes he read after the fact.]

[transmittable]

yeah. a whole ten tons worth.

[cthulwho]

i see

[He recalls Sakura's notes, and how she and the Transmitter shared a goal of saving those they cared about. How the Transmitter was uneasy about Sakura's given role. And how the Transmitter reacted during the trial, when she...left.

He is at least willing to acknowledge her answer.]

thank you for telling me

it is all still difficult to process
but it is good that you were able to return to this regardless
it seems many here care about you and like talking to you

[transmittable]

[ A pause. ]

you're welcome. and thanks
i couldn't very well just leave you guys with the risen anyway.
it was selfish.

[cthulwho]

i would not call it selfish necessarily
getting frustrated with work is natural is it not?

[He is very obviously and intentionally simplifying it here.]

[transmittable]

sure
work's kinda a way to put it but
sure

[cthulwho]

sorry
i realize i am not the best being to provide these kinds of sentiments

[...wait.]

do you not consider this work?

[transmittable]

not really?
okay not at all. it's more something that's required. like something you can't really get out of.

[cthulwho]

so a contract?
i call that work
well more specifically a chore

[transmittable]

i guess? a contract's a weird way to put it but
i guess it maybe started as that.

[cthulwho]

i take it that it is incredibly difficult to truly fulfill
if we were to call it one

[transmittable]

yeah
almost impossible