>>95646086https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-XI_1LgEik >plays through the room>the door faces out a window overlooking a picture of a pond with ducks and trees'Uh... h-hello?'
>'...''Hello Mr. uh-
>flips through the notes'M-Mr. Chetford?'
'...yes?'
'Hi, uh, my name is Connors an-'
'Hmm. Irishmen now.'
'Well, I me- I mean uh, it's...'
'Oh ho ho ho hoo, oh do forgive me, I understand that this world beyond me is less concerned with the past, but I am a little more, say, fixed on it, in all its trimmings. Yes, I am Robert Chetford, or was in my life before.'
'Befor- that's uh, that's what I wanted to ask you about.'
'You mean the state of me? Yes, I am concrete now, rock and stone and I will live forever. I hate to be in the way, but it is the way of things now.'
'O-okay... I just um, your 'preservation abilities', I guess, they uh, I wanted to ask about them.'
'...alright then.'
'Good, great so um, when did you first-'
'They asked me all this before you know.'
'They?'
'The men in the rooms around us. They've gone and picked who I was as far as they can and put it all a long white table. Can't a piece of concrete have some rest I say?'
'Well uh... tha-that's not what I, what I uh, wanted to talk about.'
'Oh? Then why are you here?'
'I want to know what made you fee- uh, what made you become... concrete?'
'Oh. Oh well, I, I suppose one day, I just woke up and I looked in the mirror and realized I wasn't myself anymore. So I thought my senses had left me and I needed a weekend away, but I realized, no, I am what I think I am and that's not going to change.'
'That's it? You didn't start, um, having things happen that shouldn't, and made you realize you had this stuff?'
'Well, no, but a gentlemen knows when he is what he is or isn't, and doesn't need practice to perfect that personage. Why do you ask?'
'Oh uh, no reason.'
'..Mr. Connors. I may be concrete, but I am not as dumb as it normally is.'
