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[Anyone who talked to Will during his breakdown was probably nearby when he made this post, seeing as how he made it the second he got his D-Terminal, without even reading the information provided in it.]

[It opens with the soft feminine voice of his Gomamon in the background.]

Will, I don't think you can--

My name is Will Graham, and I--

[A pause and an audible swallow.]

I think I'm suffering a total mental break. I've been. Hallucinating for weeks, and my headaches have been getting worse and.

[Another pause.]

And now a seal is talking to me. I don't know where I am, but I need help.

Will, I think you're broadcasting, I keep trying to tell you, we don't have 911 he--

[The feed turns off.]

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Holy fuck it's a seal with a mohawk.

Quite probably, then.

[There's a long moment when the feed is silent, except for some concerned murmuring that's probably Clarice trying to comfort Will.]

[There's then some noisy clattering, and then Clarice's voice is no longer muffled by distance.]

Um, hello! This is Will's partner. He's... fishing through his pockets for something, I think, I don't know, I don't understand half the words he's saying. Do you think we could get our own place somewhere?

[There's a pause, then she whispers.]

I think he's really upset about being here.

Um, I'm a Gomamon... What's a seal...

[There's something comforting about this girl not accepting Clarice without a question and Will approaches her, followed by Clarice, who is slower on her flippers than Will is on his legs.]

You're looking for me.

Yeah, you sound right.

Hallucinating and headaches, was it?

[He nods, trying not to feel ridiculous telling a teenaged girl this.]

Sleepwalking too.

[Oh, this isn't where you should feel ridiculous yet.]

Hm. Take off your shirt.

[--!?]

Why?

Because if I'm going to examine your head and neck, a shirt collar is only going to get in the way and make it a pain in the arse.

[Oh. Oh dear. Why him? Why Cam?] I- I don't know. I know they're out there, but I...don't really know, where to look. The Damemon might help, but they, uh...cost money. ...The apartments. Not the Damemon.

Something like that.

What did they do to the cell phones?

[He was talking to Neku a minute ago, and it doesn't seem like his phone works either.]

What the hell's a Damemon?!

Um! Um! New problem! Are humans supposed to take large numbers of pills at once?

[There's a long pause accompanied by a heavy sigh before Will does what she asks. Clarice is watching with curiosity.]

[EXTREMELY PANICKED LOOK.] Wha-- no, definitely not! That can-- that's bad!

Um! What do I do? He just took like... a whole bunch out of this little bottle and swallowed them! I didn't see how many!

[It was probably about 5. She's overreacting.]

It's a year--

A different what?

From my what?

[WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON.]

Make him spit them out! Make him-- make him throw up, jump on his stomach, grab his-- uv-- uvula! [He remembered the word, wow, pressure helps his memory.]

[On the other end of the line, there's a thud as Clarice drops the d-terminal and jumps on her partner, who yelps. After that, there's the sound of a scuffle, and some loud swearing.]

[Let's just be glad Clarice has no idea what a uvula is.]

[Once it seems that Will has Clarice somewhat pinned, the talking resumes, though it's somewhat distant over the line.]

What the hell was that?

You were gonna make yourself sick!

By dry-swallowing advil-- I'm arguing with a talking seal about headache medicine.

Fuck.

[And there's still a voice coming from the D-Terminal.]

Did you get it out? Did he-- is he okay? Can you hear me?

[There's another moment of distant conversation.]

The boy on the d-terminal said that is was bad to take lots of pills!

[. . .]

Oh.

[There's a little bit of clattering as Will actually walks over to pick up the phone.]

Hey. It's... me. Look, I just took advil. For the headache.

[Honestly, it's hard to be mad at someone who wanted to make sure he didn't get hurt, after the past weeks of people pushing him into terrible mental situations.]

[Well, first of all Cam's relieved he's talking to him again. Second of all...]

...Oh. Uh. I thought... --never mind, sorry, I wasn't...thinking.

[Will's shaky sigh is audible over the connection.]

'Suicidal' isn't on my long list of current mental concerns.

[. . .]

Not hard to see where you got the idea, though.

[Cam is incredibly glad that this isn't video now, because he just winced, froze, and had to recollect himself.]

...can never be too...careful.

'm sorry I can't do more to help.

Oh dear. Don't you know your quantum mechanics? [Ryan, you don't even known your quantum mechanics. Shut up and stop terrorizing Will.] There's all sorts of different worlds, and the people here are being pulled from any kind of world you can think of.

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