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[A moment of silence. Then, River’s voicemail message begins.]

The average human auditory range of a child is twenty to twenty thousand hertz. At the age of eight, diminution occurs. [Beat.] Cellular communications transmit at a standardized frequency of seven hundred to nine hundred megahertz.

[A soft sound, like a pencil tapping against a desk.]

It’s old tech. The buttons are clumsy, the design isn’t continuously aerodynamic, and the battery shows considerable waste in power expenditure. It doesn’t come in enough variation to conform to the spatial variations of the hand, manus.

[And yet. And yet.]

I put stickers on mine. [Pink ones. So nobody better go stealing it. :|] There will be a tone of frequency 1250 hertz. You’ll have to clarify your intent. [Cause lord knows River is the best at making herself understood.]