Chapter 1, Verse 4 - I|hear..sou/n.ds--♫

[skaldssong.livejournal.com]

[Audio - The Dark Hour]

[An audio call with plenty of reverb in the speaker's voice, during the dark hour?]

[...Well. Frankly, it's pretty commonplace as of late, isn't it? Even if you don't recognize the speaker's voice the underlying echo within it speaks as to their nature, while the speaker herself asks a simple question.]

Duty, or desire?

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[audio]

[profcharisma.livejournal.com]

Well, now that I've answered you, why did you ask?

[audio]

[skaldssong.livejournal.com]

I'm just asking a question where the other me can't, or won't. Just giving her a bit of food for thought.

[A shuffling noise, likely a shrug, and a chuckle.]

The ability to record a conversation for later pursual is convenient.

[audio]

[profcharisma.livejournal.com]

You're surprisingly nonviolent for a Shadow. The others I've seen have shown a tendency to attack people.

[audio]

[skaldssong.livejournal.com]

I'm her, and for repetition's sake she's just like me. Violence is a way of getting things done, true, but there are more refined ways of getting what you want.

[audio]

[profcharisma.livejournal.com]

If only my Shadow had acted more like you.

[He preferred other methods to violence, but that hadn't stopped his Shadow from trying to cave his face in.]

[audio]

[skaldssong.livejournal.com]

Should I be flattered? Rather than wishful thinking, I'd do a bit of soul-searching if I were you and wonder what precisely that means.

[It probably means he just spouted the magic words to make a Shadow go berserk, but hey. Being rude is a prerequisite for Shadows in general.]

[audio]

[profcharisma.livejournal.com]

I know my own mind. I don't need a Shadow to overemphasize all of my neuroses and throw them back in my face.

[audio]

[skaldssong.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes, I'm sure you do. I'm also sure that whatever your shadow said, you didn't react to it at all -- knowing the ins and outs of your mind as well as you do.

[audio]

[profcharisma.livejournal.com]

Of course. I can recognize when someone is trying to get a rise out of me.

[Also, his Shadow was a creepy, obsessive stalker and he was not going to acknowledge what that might imply about himself, thank you kindly.]

[audio]

[skaldssong.livejournal.com]

[No one said that beings born of one's repressed feelings were forbidden from being melodramatic.]

In that case, you probably won't have to worry about your shadow any more will you?

[audio]

[profcharisma.livejournal.com]

Not for very much longer, at least.

[audio]

[skaldssong.livejournal.com]

I'll hope for your success, then. [A pause.] Unless you've got anything else you'd like to say, I'll stop taking your time.