║ sixth stanza ║ accidental voice

What-- How did you-- ?

[Silence falls for a few moments, as if some unheard voice is speaking.]

No, it's for-- I'm reading over my part...

[Another pause.]

Well, yes...

[Again, a brief silence.]

U-um... Demetrius.

[Another pause; Todd's voice is growing more distraught and becoming quieter.]

Of course I'm going to talk... I am capable of speaking.

[A somewhat briefer pause; whoever the unheard voice belongs to is speaking to Todd in a brief, abrupt manner.]

N-no... I-- uh. It's just... you--

[Another, slightly longer, pause. Todd's voice is a bare, defeated mumble at this point.]

N-nothing... no... no, sir. I'm sorry...