(some of us trying to recover this typing. we um hold the idea of there being something wrong here as silly! how could this be a tense or whistleblowing expression??)
— (uhhhhhhhh)
he tenses over, and begins backing away.
torture victim double agent: “my parakeet has to pee, i will be right back!”
(is “parakeet has to pee” wrong? we were trying to riff of “have to go wash my goldfish”)
torture victim double agent stumbles over and into objects and tensely flees the immediate area
disguised experimentee: “wai—“
torture victim double agent hides behind trash cans and travels through abandoned buildings as mysterious searing pain strikes his chest and face and traffick boss’s mutterings fill his ears. a trashcan here, a newspaper stand there, and he sees it like is traffick boss himself, looking at him as if in fury
torture victim double agent: “i didn’t understand! i don—