SAO: WE DO NOT DIE AS YOU DO. YET…
SAO: AT TIMES WE COMBINE OR WITHER.
LAVANYA: Is withering what we attempted to do to the Adversary, or what you did do to the Adversary?
XAVIUL: What we did to the Adversary.
LAVANYA: Did I- did this child slip in to first person pronouns?
XAVIUL: Yes.
SAO: NO. WE SOUGHT TO ERADICATE IT HERE.
LAVANYA: Oh, here, yes!
XAVIUL: Ask them about uhh. The injured god.
LAVANYA: Oh that’s what this is about. Because I sent a prayer- THIS ONE SENT A PRAYER asking about uh. The injured god is slain. Or about to be slain it seems like. *Murmuring* No, we can’t ask how it is eradicated… How do we tell the difference between a voice that is being eradicated and a voice that is withering? Is there a difference? Or is this just like, we were fucking strangled out that Adversary’s roots kind of thing
SAO: WE HAVE HEARD SUCH RUMORS
SAO: TO CULL ALL KNOWN HOSTS IS A CULL.
LAVANYA: Ohhh, okay. Because if there’s no people left to have a voice inside their head, then how can it be a voice at all?
SAO: TO WITHER REFERS TO BELIEF, FADING
SAO: IN RARE CASES OUR NAMES MERGE
SAO: OR ONE IS ECLIPSED BY THE OTHER
<Spoder beams Lavanya in the face with a grappling hook>
SAO: THAT CHILD IS RUDE.
LAVANYA: Yes,that child is a FUCKING DICK.
<Shape switches to Spoderman>
LAVANYA: This is why we say you are the best voice.But that’s what the Fool was trying to do to the Death Fetishist.
XAVIUL: Oh, was it?
LAVANYA: That’s what BLANK said, right?
XAVIUL: The watcher would know.
LAVANYA: Oh, Xaviul. Did you want me- Did you want this one to ask about your watcher?
XAVIUL: Uhh. This one is alright.
SAO: EVEN WATCHERS MAY SAY, YOU.
XAVIUL: Oh.
LAVANYA: Oh, excellent. Perfect!
SAO: FOCUS ON TRUTH. WORDS WE FORGIVE.
SAO: THE VOICE WOULD NOT.
LAVANYA: Yes. Oof. That is good to know. But the voice does not speak to kids, so this one is set.
XAVIUL: Or can the Voice speak to the children.
SAO: IN RITUALS.
LAVANYA: Oh, yes, fuck.
XAVIUL: <DUMBLY> Is the Voice aware of SEED THE GRUDGE.
Lavanya: DON’T USE NAMES.
XAVIUL: <Smoothly, totally> Oh, I forgot they’re a Voice.
SAO: THAT IS AT A WATCHER’S DISCRETION.
XAVIUL: Oh. This one is sorry. This one thought for a long time that that was actually a lie. That that voice did not actually exist.
SAO: IT SHOULD NOT EXIST HERE.
LAVANYA: Then why does it? I guess for the same reason any of the voices are here…
XAVIUL: COuld someone have brought it in to Redacre?
LAVANYA: Oh, hosts.
XAVIUL: Yes. Could a host have somehow gotten in to Redacre and brought another with it?
SAO: FORBIDDEN ARCHIVES.
Lavanya: Huh. Cryptic as fuck.
SAO: SOMEONE HAS FOUND HER NAME.
XAVIUL: Could we have been betrayed by someone?
SAO: UNKNOWN.
XAVIUL: Has this ever happened before to us?
SAO: YES. IN ONE AREA, VOICES FADE.
SAO: SOMEONE FINDS A BOOK OR A POEM…
SAO: THE SEED IS PLANTED ONCE AGAIN.
XAVIUL: And information is so easily spread outside of our town now, with technological advances.
SAO: YES. WE CONTROL MOST SUCH BOOKS.
XAVIUL: Who would want to spread the others-
SAO: OTHER MEDIA AS WELL. THIS IS NEW.
XAVIUL: And have the watchers told of the other voice that some other children have had call out for help?
SAO: WHAT DO YOU MEAN?
XAVIUL: Some children have reported hearing a voice that claims it was attacked by another and its name taken from it. It seeks aid from The Adversary.
SAO: AS WE TOLD LAVANYA, WE HAVE HEARD.
XAVIUL: Can a voice live without a name?
SAO: WE HAVE NOT YET CONFIRMED.
SAO: A BELIEF THAT WILL NOT DIE.
XAVIUL: And we do not yet know how this belief could have manifested here?
SAO: WE DO NOT. UNLESS…
SAO: IT WAS HERE, INTACT. THEN HARMED.
LAVANYA: Well the children go on trips outside of Redacre.
XAVIUL: But two new voices in our town… Do we worry that all this information could be getting leaking in to our town through some source?
SAO: YES.
LAVANYA: Couldn’t it be leaked in when us children leave Redacre?
XAVIUL: We can’t now.
SAO: RARE. CONTROLLED BY OUR PEOPLE.
LAVANYA: That makes sense. There isn’t much room for negative influences to get in…
XAVIUL: And yet somehow, they are.
LAVANYA: Yet somehow they are, and somehow- Xaviul! The house with the symbol, ask about it! The pottery symbol!
<They scramble for the Triskelion on 922.>
LAVANYA: This one would like to ask about a symbol that is in one of the houses, Xaviul is going to it.
LAVANYA: Yes, the symbol Xaviul is looking at! Is that one of the ways false gods are getting in to Redacre?
SAO: WE HAD REPORTS OF VANDALISM.
A SYMBOL IS RARELY ENOUGH.
XAVIUL: But the symbol came with a person.
LAVANYA: Oh, it did. But if the person isn’t spreading-
XAVIUL: But if the person came with these beliefs-
SAO: YES. WE ARE AWARE OF HIM.
XAVIUL: We do not fear he is the one spreading these beliefs?
SAO: NO. HE IS IN OUR CARE.
XAVIUL: Well that’s good. Though it doesn’t help our leak.
SAO: HE MIGHT HAVE BROUGHT HER.
XAVIUL: Could he be enough of a seed for her to reach out to the children?
SAO: FROM WHERE HE IS, NO.
XAVIUL: But from before he was in our care? Could he spread it to those around him?
SAO: YES.
XAVIUL: So we should worry about those who came in to contact with him, perhaps?
LAVANYA: We should worry about those outside of Redacre. This is why this one’s mother told them to never talk to strangers.
SAO: WE HAVE INTERVIEWED SOME OF THEM.
SAO: HIS ASSOCIATES DO NOT REMEMBER.
XAVIUL: Could his associates be somehow made to forget? Before we were able to interview them?
SAO: POSSIBLY. WE CAN DO SUCH THINGS.
SAO: WE THOUGHT NO OTHER COULD.
SAO: OUR TIME ENDS.
XAVIUL: Oh. Can this one ask one more question before we leave? One more indulgence? A silly one of silly children.
SAO: THE CHORDIST AWAITS. ASK.
XAVIUL: This one has noticed that other children contacted by their watchers have nicknames. This one wonders if the Watchers have nicknames for these two.
SAO: NOT AS OF NOW. THEIR NAMES…
SAO: UNIQUE WAVEFORM. WELL CHOSEN.
SAO: EASY TO REMEMBER.
XAVIUL: So that we may find them easier in the song…?
SAO: WE REFER TO XAVIUL. LAVANYA.
XAVIUL: Oh.
SAO: THESE NAMES STICK IN THE MIND.
SAO: THEREFORE, WE DO NOT RENAME.
XAVIUL: Aww, we don’t need names.
SAO: REMAIN VIGILANT. WE SPEAK AS ONE.
<Everyone rags on Spoder for calling us individuals.>
