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[customplates]

Hello? I...thought I'd see how this thing works. Since...yesterday, I-

Okay, I'll try something else. Um. Has anybody...seen anything weird or, uh, heard anything? Like, maybe a line that keeps repeating and you know you've never heard it before?

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[customplates]

[he swallows before speaking again.]

...I have. A...group of very malicious men and women us it to communicate with one another.

[kingforboth]

[Kelson immediately wished he could get that damned whistle out of his head even more. The last thing he wanted was more maliciousness in his head, he had quite enough of that from reading the minds of some very bad men already, thank you.]

How very industrious of them.

[customplates]

[He chuckles nervously but nods.]

Yeah...they made the most of a bad situation, I guess, so...everyone else's detriment. We...

...you know, that's not what's important right now is it?

[kingforboth]

No, the real important matter is how I can be hearing that in my head. I've never heard it before in my life. You said something about hearing a line?

[customplates]

Yeah. It's, uh, Latin, I think.

"Sanctus Camberus, libera nos ab omnibus malis"

I don't speak Latin.

[kingforboth]

That is most certainly latin. Saint Camber, deliver us from every evil.I guess you could call him my patron saint?

I'm afraid his name has been rather maligned, but neither that explains why you are hearing such things, as much as it is a relief for me to hear the phrase.

[customplates]

And I've never heard of Saint Camber, either.

[It also didn't explain why Kelson was hearing the Savior's clarion call.]

...what do you think this means?

[kingforboth]

If I had to guess I'd say it's something like rapport, a kind of magical sharing. But I've never heard of it doing something like this before. This is....rather incomplete. This is like.....water dripping out of a bucket via a small hole. Certainly not the typical sharing I've experienced before.

Is it just us?

[customplates]

Maybe...it's a side effect of something else?

No. Tim...saw something, too. From my world.

[kingforboth]

Perhaps? Something we've all come in contact with, like the food or water?

The question is why? If this was done knowingly, why. And if not, then what in God's name was done to us and why?