"I'll apologize in advance for anything foul it says or threatens - simply because if I apologize after it's fully awake, it may go mute on us."
She turns to Howard and her jaw drops, her hand freezing on the box's surface. "You contacted the Ohm? And they don't know they're in a war? Now what does that mean - that they haven't even noticed that people are fighting them? Or that they're doing something they don't think is a war?"
They're clearly building a hyperspace bypass, silly!
The box takes this chance to bray like an outraged bugle, "Your children's children will be flayed alive for this insult! Unhand me, you filthy, verminous-"
Anwei's fingers ripple, and the voice suddenly drops in volume to a tenth of what it had been. It was still talking, or rather yelling, but they can barely hear it.
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She turns to Howard and her jaw drops, her hand freezing on the box's surface. "You contacted the Ohm? And they don't know they're in a war? Now what does that mean - that they haven't even noticed that people are fighting them? Or that they're doing something they don't think is a war?"
They're clearly building a hyperspace bypass, silly!
The box takes this chance to bray like an outraged bugle, "Your children's children will be flayed alive for this insult! Unhand me, you filthy, verminous-"
Anwei's fingers ripple, and the voice suddenly drops in volume to a tenth of what it had been. It was still talking, or rather yelling, but they can barely hear it.
"Well, at least I found the mute button."