*click*

*Addie's voice is audible on the tape. She seems shaken. Very shaken.*

"No... nonononono...

I'm not... I'm barely in control anymore. He takes over more and more frequently, always without warning and sometimes before I even realize. I'll just wake up, and I'm somewhere else, no knowledge of how long I'd been out.

All the usual signs of possession seem to plague me as well. I can tell I'm a bit more snappy, and I'm just...

Generally... I'm just acting more and more like him.

Nothing's working. I don't know where Xcan is. Praxus is... still gone. *she seems choked up as she says that.* And none of the rituals are working. Nothing is working. Nothing.

I'm starting to lose hope. Akhet told me that [the name is distorted] came by the house and got my notes. I trust him enough, at least. And I know he's no fan of Gradient's so I have less worry about the information getting into the wrong hands.

*she's silent for a moment, the tape rolling without sound. She kind of hums a song under her breath: it is recognizable as "Mad Hatter" by Melanie Martinez.*

I just... don't-"

*her voice cuts off with a glitch, replaced by muttering in a different language you cannot understand (Unless you are Faust, who would understand ritualect fluently).*

"Orkarke, frekereua glya jhōur-"

*it switches back to Addie*

"Know what-"

*it keeps switching again and again, a glitchy transition between each. As the statements go on, a white noise undertone grows in volume*

"Viorkaaren owoeor frekerēorejēkaua-"

"To-"

"Viorkaaren orekaa ēgl ēhkar kbeōkaa-"

"Do-"

*there is a violent sound of what sounds to be raging wind, a screech of an emotion you can't place through sadistic, gleeful laughter.*

*and through all of that, three words are present:*

"Tij ōoreke uake."

*click*