*Beep...….beep...…..beep.*
"Is he going to be ok?"
"Tramatized a little, but ok."
"What happened?"
"He's getting into his role more, but…."
"Role?"
"What role?"
"Darius, how do you feel?"
"It's not my limbs, Lin. It's my voices.
There are just too many of them for me to concentrate.
How will I be able to figure out which voices are which? How will I....Ruby. She can help me. Can't she?"
"You can try, but she only feels others. She can't hear others."
"Then what do I do to prevent it from happening again?"
"Darius, you act as if this is a curse."
"But."
"Go to Theo. He'll tell you what to do."
"Theo's not magic."
*Striiiiiiaaaaap*
No. But he had his fair share of dealing with voices and figuring out the moment which ones were wrong."
"But…"
"Here. If you can't speak, this paper will."
"Is it magical? Will it translate on paper what my Voices are saying, just like screens do with…"
"Darius...it's just a piece of paper."
"Oh."
"He'll know what to do."
"............Just...….a piece...….of....paper!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"That's what Nurse Lin said. I still don't know why she gave it to me. You have a lot of paper in your....what is this again?"
"A Second chance. A clean slate....just like that piece of paper."
"Huh?"
"Tell me, in what direction are the lines on that paper going?
"Parralel. They never touch."
"Now, how many lines do you see on that piece of paper?"
"Come on. That's an easy one. Why do you have me…"
"Just count the lines please."
"......One....two...….three….four...five, six, seven....eight...…Thirty two!!!"
"Count again?"
".......Thirty Three!!!!!"
"Darius, focus. Count slowly and with meaning. Look at each line, and do you best not to count twice."
"Hmmmmmmm.
*Flip...….flip*
Hmmmm. I see…..one….two.....no, no, no, no. Come on Darius. Focus.
One.......*Flip*.......Two!!!
Two. I see two.
That means…..four plus four is….ahimahimahimammahima….
SIXTY-EIGHT!!!!!!!!"
"Darius?"
"No wait.
SIxty-Nine?
...…Seventy!!!!!!!!
The answer is Seventy.
No wait.
Is it?
Why aren't you…"
"And how did you come to the conclusion of Seventy?"
"So I was right. I figured it out because for the longest time people think 'Paper' and 'Sheet' are two totally different things. A paper is only one side, and a sheet means both sides; but you can't have a piece of paper that does not have a back side. Unless you do lines on one side, and blank on the other. Even if that were so, they would still be two sided. But....on the same page...…Ha...….ha..."
"Darius?"
"So what was the point of this exercise? I mean, there were a few faded lines and such; but after some careful digging; I found the truth. Mixed between all the others."
"How many lines are red?"
"...........One!!!"
"Good job.
You may be dismissed now."
"But you didn't answer my question. How am I supposed to distinguish between all the voices in my head? They are not all one."
"I didn't answer...but you did."