[voice->video/action]
I-- [a gasp, startled, and then a husky murmur] I cannot -- hear...
I am deaf.
[spoken in a quiet, mourning voice, and then there are just a few, quiet breaths. it is finally -- finally over. there is nothing left of the Wood in her. and it hurts so much more than she'd thought it would.]
[finally, after a long pause, she turns the video on: a beautiful woman with coffee-colored skin and white hair curling about her face. her ears may not be visible just yet, but her features are not quite human.]
[now her voice is collected and flat] Who has chained me? I do not care for it.
[for someone who claims to be deaf, she certainly seems to expect answers]