003 (Video) ; I'm a word that no one ever wants to say...

[andblockbuster]

 [Hello, Tranquility. Here's Topher, recently exorcised and looking... Well, let's be real here. Topher looks like he got hit by a truck. His hair's messier than usual, he's ashen-faced, and there's a bandage around his left hand, which you can only just barely see because his hands are tucked tightly under his arms, like he's trying to pull himself into the smallest possible space.]

Is it over yet?

[He swallows.] ...Are they gone?

[For a moment, he looks like he might say something else, but there's just a long silence where nothing happens and he flips the communicator off with an aggravated and exhausted sigh. This has not been the best few weeks of his life and he's had a lot of terrible few weeks.]

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[andblockbuster]

It is a little. A smidge. [Because, really, let's face it. It's not like Wheatley didn't have decent ideas in theory back there. Just, you know, not so good with the practice, because people have a tendency to lose their minds when confronted with things they don't want to confront.

And Topher knows this, because dammit, Jim, he's a neurologist not an angry mob wrangler.]

I think I've had enough Latin for one lifetime, so... I'll just take your word for it.

[testgasm]

It's not weird.

[JUST. REITERATING THAT. IT'S NOT WEIRD.]

But, uh. I guess it's good to know that you...don't believe what she said. Despite our. Past disagreement on the matter.

[andblockbuster]

Our past disagreement was about you... Being that 'm' word that I'm most definitely not gonna say again, because loud, British noises are not beneficial to my healing process.

But I can honestly say I don't think you're a psycho? [WAZZAT A COMPLIMENT?

Mebbe.]

[testgasm]

Okay, good, because. I'm not.

Either of those things.

[He is both of those things.]