[the breathing is fucking terrifying, because it means nothing, anybody could gasp like that, dying fish did it all the time and it didn't mean anything, it could be some perv, it could be anyone]
[he can't handle it, getting his hopes up a second time, and he's trying to disassemble them frantically in that thirty seconds, before the wrong voice comes down the line or it ends up being a stupid yappy little dog chewing on the phone or something or -- ]
[Badou-san?!]
[it's too loud in his ear, even with all that air he's struggling with; Badou feels somewhere between wanting to laugh hysterically and wanting to punch a glass window through, hearing that gasping shout]
[his mouth is slack, and for a few seconds more, he forgets to respond]
Re: [Voice]
[he can't handle it, getting his hopes up a second time, and he's trying to disassemble them frantically in that thirty seconds, before the wrong voice comes down the line or it ends up being a stupid yappy little dog chewing on the phone or something or -- ]
[Badou-san?!]
[it's too loud in his ear, even with all that air he's struggling with; Badou feels somewhere between wanting to laugh hysterically and wanting to punch a glass window through, hearing that gasping shout]
[his mouth is slack, and for a few seconds more, he forgets to respond]