3rd (lack of) sleep note. Audio at three am but left on the network as always.
[Alex doesn't sleep. It's a problem. So, when she doesn't sleep, she reads the network. That's probably a problem too. But for now, she's focusing on one thing. It's a thing that she probably shouldn't focus on, and that Strand would shake his head at, and it's three in the morning but Alex's chipper, canadian ready for radio voice comes out anyway.]
You know what I love? Ghost stories. It's so weird how there's ghost stories that seem almost universal. Well, [You can hear the smile in her voice here.] Earth-versal I guess? But things like the hitchhiker in the dress that you pick up and then drop off somewhere or she disappears and it turns out that she'd been dead for years and it couldn't have happened. Or the ghosts of children who move cars from where they were tragically killed.
Or dark ladies or monks or banshees that warn of impending doom. Or ghost battles that happen hundreds of years after blood was first spilled on the soil.
[A beat.]
And let's not forget about vengeful ghosts who are going to get you for something you've done wrong in life. There's too many of those to even talk about.
But what I want to know what ghost stories are like in your worlds. You can even tell me your favorite fictional ghost story. Mine is Hamlet. It used to be "A Turn of the Screw" but a friend ruined that by calling it "the best case for apophenia in fiction." So it's not fun anymore.
[And then she laughs.]
Don't worry, I promise not to call anything you've experienced here apophenia. We've all seen way too much for that.
And just in case you don't know, I'm Alex. Alex Reagan.
You know what I love? Ghost stories. It's so weird how there's ghost stories that seem almost universal. Well, [You can hear the smile in her voice here.] Earth-versal I guess? But things like the hitchhiker in the dress that you pick up and then drop off somewhere or she disappears and it turns out that she'd been dead for years and it couldn't have happened. Or the ghosts of children who move cars from where they were tragically killed.
Or dark ladies or monks or banshees that warn of impending doom. Or ghost battles that happen hundreds of years after blood was first spilled on the soil.
[A beat.]
And let's not forget about vengeful ghosts who are going to get you for something you've done wrong in life. There's too many of those to even talk about.
But what I want to know what ghost stories are like in your worlds. You can even tell me your favorite fictional ghost story. Mine is Hamlet. It used to be "A Turn of the Screw" but a friend ruined that by calling it "the best case for apophenia in fiction." So it's not fun anymore.
[And then she laughs.]
Don't worry, I promise not to call anything you've experienced here apophenia. We've all seen way too much for that.
And just in case you don't know, I'm Alex. Alex Reagan.
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Look, it's not that she didn't read Pride and Prejudice a lot as a kid and maybe once or twice as an adult because she's
sort of in love with an assholeknows Richard Strand.]Sorry, I really don't mean to be a jerk. I apologize, Miss Bennet.
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[She's started, she might as well finish.]
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There's a book, it's like one of the most famous in my world, definitely one of the most known love stories, and the main characters are Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. But there's no zombies in it. At least not the versions I've read!
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[There are no true words to describe how she felt about this, but she forces herself to go on.] I suppose..perhaps this is another one of those 'universes'? Not all worlds have zombies after all, and I have been here long enough to know there are 'multiple' Englands and new worlds.
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I actually have a copy here. Where are you?
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If you insist, you should dress warmly and carry a light-and some form of protection if you have any.
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[Which is an understatement.]
Gimme fifteen minutes or so.
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[She kept her word, and was still in the same spot as she said she was. In terms of appearance, only a close glance would betray her as being from another era; though her stance was certainly more confident and she wore trousers, the long sleeved shirt, fitted vest, and knee-length frock coat all spoke of keeping some sort of formality. Ms. Regan.
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There was a broad grin when she saw Lizzie in the flesh though, and her eyes sparkled when she said,] Miss Bennet.
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No problem. I was up anyway. And if it were about me I'd want to read it.