Sobbing voice: Elijah

Sobbing voice, cracking, thick, and reluctant

Prompt: A male voice breaking under grief—a low, cracking sob barely held together, words catching in the throat and giving way to shaky breaths. The tone is thick and wet, usually-steady register wavering and failing, each phrase fought for and half-lost. There's a raw, reluctant vulnerability to it, a strong voice undone. It sounds like a man who never cries, crying, the words coming out fractured and unsteady.

Script: I wasn't gonna say anything. You know me, I don't— I don't do this. But I can't keep it down anymore. Every time I try to talk about him, my voice just goes. I'm sorry, give me a second. I just miss my dad, that's all. I just really, really miss him. And I don't know where to put it.