[An audible gasp is heard from the other end of the feed, he recognized the voice but he clearly hadn't expected to hear it. Hands leaving the screen and a familiar paper-bag with eye-holes coming into view through the weird static.] Arkady? Oh, hello. I didn't know you could see this.

[He tilted his head, tapping the screen one more time before he nodded.] Do you think they could? I dunno why it does that, the last phone was staticky when I talked too.