[The clatter that follows is Nikos, throwing his sending crystal across the room. Because you can be thirty and still throw a tantrum if your older brother is a big enough arsehole.
But you can't hang up a sending crystal so it's not like that's the last word or anything. It's a big punctuation mark. Maybe the verbal equivalent of a middle finger.]
[ The last words are, ] I have other people to, [ which are largely buried beneath the clattering, then abandoned, right there, midway through the sentence, because Kostos catches on to the cause of the clatter, and his refusal to be a small, distant, undignified voice mouthing off to a wall means that Nikos is spared from hearing do that for me before Kostos abandons the connection, too.
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Date: 2018-08-28 04:22 pm (UTC)[The clatter that follows is Nikos, throwing his sending crystal across the room. Because you can be thirty and still throw a tantrum if your older brother is a big enough arsehole.
But you can't hang up a sending crystal so it's not like that's the last word or anything. It's a big punctuation mark. Maybe the verbal equivalent of a middle finger.]
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Date: 2018-08-28 05:06 pm (UTC)So throwing it was definitely the right call. ]