Opening the door [Forward dated to day 11]

[nobasisinfact]

[There's no message, just this,followed by laughter. The laughter doesn't sound right. It's like nails on chalkboard and static all at once.]

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[11calls]

Then tell me what I want to know.

[Alex moves through the distance between them until she’s closer than she was before the push.]

[nobasisinfact]

I have no reason to do so.

[11calls]

Really?

[and then Alex draws back to slap him good and hard.]

[nobasisinfact]

[The voice that follows the slap is clearly Richards, as is the wince of pain.

Then the cackling of the demon is back as he shoves her back hard.]

[11calls]

[Alex’s eyes just go wide when it’s Richard voice, and she isn’t paying attention when the demon shoves her and she falls backwards.]

You’re not real. You’re just the Sphere magnifying my nightmares.

[nobasisinfact]

You can't be sure of that. Please, slap him again.

[Richard's grin is impossibly wide.]

[11calls]

What the hell do you get out of this?! Really? It’s not going to get the door open. If there even is a Geneva here it isn’t ours. And you said it yourself Thomas warren isn’t here.

[nobasisinfact]

What do demons do, Alex?

[It seems to be imitating Simon ... or something akin to Simon.]

[11calls]

Be creepy assholes who take after Simon Reese apparently.

[She's not playing this game with you, demon.]

Do you actually have an original thought in your head?

[Yep. She's taking the annoy the demon approach right now.]

[nobasisinfact]

Simon Reese is one of us, not the other way around.

[11calls]

Not yet he isn't.

[And won't be, if she has anything to say about it.]

He's been going around stopping your bosses' plans for years at this point.

[nobasisinfact]

That won't change the fact of what he'll become.

[11calls]

He won't. Any more than Richard will open the door.

[nobasisinfact]

Everything will come to pass as my general has seen.

[11calls]

Your general. [Yes, those are finger quotes.]

Has no idea about what to expect from me. And he’s an idiot if he thinks he does.

[nobasisinfact]

You're deluding yourself.

[11calls]

Am I? You’re in the head of the man who knows me best. Look into it and tell me I’m wrong.

[nobasisinfact]

You don't know my general.

[11calls]

Yeah well, you sure as hell don't know me.

[nobasisinfact]

Have you begun to believe that?

[11calls]

Clearly, if you think I'm going to be some sort of fucking host for one of these things. You called me vessel. That is not going to happen.

[nobasisinfact]

It isn't a choice, you've been prepared.

[11calls]

Not anymore.

[nobasisinfact]

You're still prepared.

[11calls]

What does that even mean?!