Orin's cryptic first-of-year phone call to Hal

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texture · YDAU, 9 May

When: 9 May YDAU (2009), before 0600
What: As Hal packs gear in the dark (Mario asleep), the phone rings; a voice says "I want to tell you. My head is filled with things to say," Hal answers softly "I could wait forever," and the line is cut. It was Orin. Hal deflects Mario's "Who was it?" with "No one you know." Marks the resumption (or continuation) of Orin's phone contact with Hal months before the substantive JOI-suicide calls. NOTE: the archive's call-list ruling ("first Orin-Hal call = scene 064, 5 Nov") reads as first of the JOI-suicide/profile calls; this 9 May call precedes it — see Dating notes.