[Simon parts his lips to begin reciting a monologue he knows by heart. He's given this spiel countless times before to many an impressionable young passenger, so why is he having trouble with it now?
He can't see his number and there's another supposedly human person here and she is saying this is her home, implying that they're no longer on the train at all. If someone else were here by his side, whether it be Grace, a member of the Apex, or even Samantha, he'd start spewing curses about how this was somehow the work of the False Conductor, however...]
The Apex is...
[He does his best to physically push the words out, breath by breath, until he notices that he can feel and hear his heart pounding. A once-glowing green palm presses against the bathroom wall and Simon slumps downwards, doing his best to regain composure.]
no subject
[Simon parts his lips to begin reciting a monologue he knows by heart. He's given this spiel countless times before to many an impressionable young passenger, so why is he having trouble with it now?
He can't see his number and there's another supposedly human person here and she is saying this is her home, implying that they're no longer on the train at all. If someone else were here by his side, whether it be Grace, a member of the Apex, or even Samantha, he'd start spewing curses about how this was somehow the work of the False Conductor, however...]
The Apex is...
[He does his best to physically push the words out, breath by breath, until he notices that he can feel and hear his heart pounding. A once-glowing green palm presses against the bathroom wall and Simon slumps downwards, doing his best to regain composure.]
Hah...