Email: Emma Frost to Adrienne Frost

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From: Frost, Emma
To: Frost, Adrienne

Are you okay? Doug has managed to let me know that your computer seems just fine, which perhaps means you may not be.

Remember, telepaths go crazy <i>all the time</i>. It's like an occupational hazard. I'm not sure if psychometrists are exempt from doing the same. I would have to check my health insurance policy details.

Emma

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To: Frost, Emma
From: Frost, Adrienne

I'm okay, yes. Yeah, Doug and Sarah couldn't find anything in the computer. I think whoever was fucking with it bailed out before they could get caught, because everything seems back to normal now, and it was definitely the computer, not me. I'm certainly not going crazy. Jean ran what I was sure was an infinite number of medical tests and I've checked out just fine.

But thanks for the concern. I really appreciate it.

A.

PS- You have health insurance?! What did you have to do to get an insurance agent to give you, with all your occupational hazards, health insurance?!

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From: Frost, Emma
To: Frost, Adrienne

I own a hospital. The health insurance came with it.

One of the joys of turning to diamond is not ending up with that many injuries. My extra-curricular activities have, therefore, safely remained out of the hands of the bureaucrats and bean counters.

Let me know if it turns out that it is your brain gone all melty. Yes? Or if it turns out to be a new and incredibly subtle attack by - however many enemies you've accumulated by now.

Did you ever read Jeffty Is Five?

Emma

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To: Frost, Emma
From: Frost, Adrienne

Well, now. Isn't that convenient? Does this also mean you get free drugs?

I'm hoping you'd be the first to know if my brain goes all melty! And I will certainly let you know if this is an attack by someone and I need you to bail me out again, as per usual. I should really get a punchcard or something for "Life Saving By Older Sister. Tenth One Is Free" or some such.

...is that some sort of Family Circus thing?

A.

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From: Frost, Emma
To: Frost, Adrienne

Well, technically, I've already paid for the drugs when the hospital buys then, so free is a relative term.

Sometimes melty is... fleeting. If I'm not around you when/if something is actually happening, I may miss it. You've got all the telepaths in the Mansion and I think they'd certainly be aware by now that there may be issues, so I think the risk is acceptable and your punch card should remain unpunched this time. And my Knight is keeping an eye on your technology, in case this is some form of external attack.

Jeffty Is Five is a story by Harlan Ellison. You can find it online if you go looking. It's not long. Certain aspects of the story - what happens with the radio - are rather reminiscent of what happened to you. Family Circus? (And it's always at these moments that I realise that our pop culture references are... markedly different.)

Emma

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To: Frost, Emma
From: Frost, Adrienne

But isn't the hospital charged a cheaper price by the distributer than a patient would pay?

Well, luckily there won't be any melty-ness. And yeah, Doug's on the case. I'm sure it's all over now.

That is rather disturbing. Are you saying that my computer is possessed and is giving me baseball results from somewhere in the... great beyond or something like that? And eventually I'm going to get so swallowed up by what's on the computer I'll lose my grip on the real world and die?


Here's a great example of a typical Family Circus: