one - [video] - i'm stronger than all of this

[videocamera]

[The screen clicks on and Andrew appears, his face extremely pale except for the reddish patches of scabs and scarring on the right side of his face. There's remnants of blood below his nose and on his chin, like he just had a nosebleed and didn't wipe it off completely. Which is exactly what happened. He speaks quietly but his tone hints at both fear and anger.]

What is this, huh? What did you do to me? I can't-- [He interrupts himself with a more frantic note in his tone] Is this some kind of, of joke?

[His voice gets flatter.] I shouldn't be here. I'm stronger.

[The journal starts to shake, the picture jittering slightly. Then Andrew's nose starts to bleed again and the shaking stops, position slightly changed, now angled to give a shot of a messy bedroom behind Andrew's shoulder. His face is mostly off screen now but you can see his hands held up to his nose before the feed shuts off]

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[videocamera]

[...] Yeah, okay. If you want.

[myresponsibility]

Uh, sure, hang on a sec.

[He holds a finger up and then kills the video feed for a couple minutes. It takes some effort to find a more recent picture of Harry, because again, they haven't seen each other in forever and it's not like he's got Facebook here, but eventually, he finds something and clicks the comm back on to show Andrew a picture of Harry from a month or so before he got here, and he's been meaning to throw it out. It's from some magazine, and Harry's got aviators on and his arm around someone who might be a model.]

Guess it's a good thing I never got around to throwing this out.

[videocamera]

[Holy shit, even with the sunglasses and the fancy clothes and the model, he can tell the guy pretty much has his face. Andrew leans in closer and peers at the picture for a while, shaking his head.] Shit, he's-- How is that even possible? He's like, my twin or something. Except I don't have a twin.

[myresponsibility]

I don't know, it happens more often than you'd think, here. I mean, not like, super often, but I feel like it happening at all is pretty insane, right?

[videocamera]

Dude, this whole place is pretty insane. But this is, like, it's really insane, you know?