voice; @onni

[scowlish]

Name: Onni Hotakainen
Date: January 10
Format: Audio
Note: He has painstakingly labored over the watch for a long time to ensure that everyone except Reynir can read this post.

[The post starts with a weary sigh, and when he speaks, Onni's voice is tired and calm and very nearly monotone. It's his usual voice, to anyone who knows him, but might sound a little weird to people who don't.]

Has anyone here had something inside them change because of a Bond?

[There's a slight pause, and the sound of shifting before he speaks again.]

Not something small. Something fundamental.

Comments

[scowlish]

[Those impressions are correct - in a way, Onni is both. He's sensitive to be sure, but doesn't allow himself that range of emotion. Limited by choice.]

That makes sense. It's more than one thing, and I've never considered any of them before. I've always had a very singular purpose, between my job and my family, and then when I wasn't needed so much for those, I had another important one. I'm not used to having time to think so much, like this.

[unsundered]

[And that's a response that has Emet-Selch pause himself, and when he continues, his tone is less idle, a trace more sincere. Which mostly means that it sounds more tired.]

In that way, I would say we've had something of a similar experience with our time on this star- brought on, perhaps, by the taking of a Bond. A sole dedication, but one irrelevant here. What does one even do with the time, now that it's suddenly freed from a life otherwise consumed...?

Though for that all that those thoughts might be forgotten in the end... there is value, I believe, in their contemplation.