[contact] voicemail + texts

[swerved]

Leave all phone messages for Katherine Rance here.

Comments

text

[formicine]

hey so

...your new boss is a cat (cat emoji)

[swerved]

...........like. Literally?

[formicine]

literally a cat

[a picture of a very unhappy looking john sitting on his desk and not paying attention, clearly snapped quickly]

THE EARS
i'm having trouble not petting him

(1/3)

[swerved]

oh my god

[swerved]

OH MY GOD

[swerved]

are you sure this isn't a prank of some kind

[text 1/2]

[pushbackthedarkness]

I may have done something.

[text 2/2]

[pushbackthedarkness]

I may have asked Dan to move in with me.

[swerved]

DID you now? 😈

1/2

[pushbackthedarkness]

I may have.

text [december 1st 2019, evening] 1/3

[loficharm]

Kat

[loficharm]

Kat something happened

[loficharm]

everything is fine but everything is also NOT FINE KAT

[swerved]

WHAT HAPPENED, TELL ME

Text [January 18th 2020, late morning]

[eliotwaugh]

Hey so uh FUNNY STORY I think Martin and John might actually be working their nonsense out??? Martin asked me to come in with him for moral support but then he dashed out and it's been a while so idk!

[eliotwaugh]

either that OR he just fucking ditched me but in any case I'm bored as hell and nothing's going on here at the ol' Archive soooo you wanna come hang out?

[eliotwaugh]

we can make them a shitty 'congrats on talking about your feelings' sign, PLUS there's the bottle of scotch in my desk

Text, January 26th, early*

[loficharm]

*[ the kind of early that suggests he was waiting for the exact moment that it was no longer Too Early To Text ]

hey kat

[swerved]

[ somehow, despite being in text form, with a pointed air ]

hey martin

[swerved]

what's going on?

[loficharm]

John kissed me

[loficharm]

on purpose this time

[phone call]

[pushbackthedarkness]

Marcus calls Kat, holding the phone in his palm, letting the boys hear the ringing as he waits for her to pick up.

[swerved]

[ She isn't expecting her phone to ring — and then isn't expecting Marcus to be calling her this early — but distracted or not, she isn't going to not answer. She just takes another sip of her coffee first. ]

Hey, Marcus. What's up?

[statement_ends]

[ As soon as John hears her answer, he leans toward the phone Mr. Keane is holding and cuts in. After all, if she really knows them — and knows how Darrow's weird magic works — then she should catch on to what's happened without Mr. Keane's help. ]

Are you Kat Rance? [ A brief pause, and he continues with a little less certainty. ] This is John. Sims. Mr. Keane says you know us.