first incantation • [accidental audio]

[albuquerque]

[Severus is still trying to figure out the bracelet on his wrist. An orange apple in one hand while he studies the bracelet - he'd come across the tree of bizarre orange apples just outside his bedroom window; he'd been most dubious about the phrase Fruit Of Chance inscribed in the tree's trunk but hunger had driven him to pluck an apple from the tree - he takes a crunchy bite and idly pokes the bracelet with his pinkie as he starts to chew.

And suddenly, he spits the bite of apple out of his mouth. He does so with a sound of repulsion, followed by a hitched gag. It tastes like rotten fish! Never in his life has he ever tasted something so disgusting. Not even that rotten egg flavoured Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Bean he ate in Sixth Year tasted as bad as this does.]

Blasted--!

[What he doesn't realise is that when he poked his bracelet, he accidentally switched the audio on. So, everyone who happens to be tuning in right now will hear Severus coughing and grunting in disgust.]

Comments

[Video]

[madcuriosity]

Ah! Sir what happened?

[Video]

[albuquerque]

[Severus startles at the video popping up. And then he scowls - while attempting to hold back another urge to gag.]

Merlin, child! Have you no respect for the privacy of others?

[Video]

[madcuriosity]

Ah! You- You're the one posting this for all to see! Don't get mad when someone asks you if you're alright!

[Audio]

[occulthymns]

[Geez, what's going on here?]

Hey, you okay? [Is this something she should be laughing at?]

[Audio]

[albuquerque]

[Cue a pause of silence. Snape is most disconcerted by the voice apparently addressing him.]

Who is this?

[Audio]

[occulthymns]

What, is my name not showing up on the stupid bracelet? I'm Euri. Who're you?

Video

[samantha_grey]

Hmmmph... count yourself lucky you didn't get one of the ones that told you the future. Some fruit's better uneaten.

[Yep, yet another strange soul who's caught your broadcast, Severus. At least you've met this one?]

[Video]

[albuquerque]

[He's in the middle of another disgusted coughing fit in between frantically swilling his mouth out with water from the bathroom tap when the video screen pops up. It startles him, as does Miss Grey's voice.]

Good grief, woman. Can't you see I'm busy?

[Video]

[samantha_grey]

[A very small chuckle was there, dry, dark. Discomfort was amusing in its own way.]

Let me guess... you got that from the apple, right? Bad news. Those things are usually curses. It probably won't go away for a day.

video.

[sexyoldgirl]

[Add one more strange female to the list, Snape.]

Seems as though you could do with a lesson in dealing with the bracelets.

[Video]

[albuquerque]

Who are you and whatever gave you that idea?

[Video]

[sexyoldgirl]

[Prepare for the crazy.]

I'm the TARDIS and you did. What with your accidental post for everyone to see.

[Audio]

[fowlisfair]

[Artemis will graciously wait for a break in Snape's hacking before saying anything.]

I would guess that you either took a bite of the Apple of Chance or you're simply violently sick.

[Audio]

[albuquerque]

With whom am I speaking? And how could you possibly know that?

audio;

[pmsgargoyle]

That didn't work out well, did it?

[Audio]

[albuquerque]

Who in Merlin's name is this now?

[Audio]

[pmsgargoyle]

You were the one to make your business very public.

Don't blame strangers for replying back.

[audio]

[nukeoleptic]

[ He isn't the first person she's heard coughing from biting into one of the apples of chance, and Jade is left laughing despite herself. ]

Oh nooo. Please don't choke to death.

[Audio]

[albuquerque]

Does nobody in this ludicrous place respect the privacy of others? Stop your laughing, you fool.

[Severus is Very, Very, Annoyed. Just in case that isn't obvious.]

[Audio]

[nukeoleptic]

[ She recognizes the name. He's from Draco's world, and he's someone she had seen in Draco's memory. It's hard not to shoot a dumb retort back, but she doesn't want to actually piss him off. ]

Sorry! I am, honest. But no, not really. These bracelets sort of show everything to everyone.

voice

[zen_en_vert]

Have your questions about the fruit and the bracelet been answered, or is there still a point or two you need clarification on?

[Audio]

[albuquerque]

Who is this now?

[Audio]

[zen_en_vert]

Bruce Banner. I don't know what output you're looking at on the bracelet, but I believe that unless someone is deliberately masking their identity you should be able to activate a way to identify who's speaking.

[Lifting his own wrist to check.]

[Video]

[dragonspeak]

Errrr are you all right? If you're ill, I can have a look at you.

I'm one of the healers at the hospital.

[Video]

[albuquerque]

[That gets Severus' attention. At last: someone actually being useful. Or so Severus hopes.]

Not ill so much as choking on rotten fish-tasting apples.

Tell me you have a cure for that. [He almost says please, he's so desperate to get rid of this awful taste.]