Cool interpretation of the challenge! :-D

what a way to make an entrance. one small niggle: “echoed my my utterance” should only have one “my”

Fixed it.

sometimes my typing gets away from me. :)

No need to apologise. Your typing was simply echoing as well.

Nice, that really took me by surprise. Great work.

well, if you’re selling security services, you just won a contract.. :P That would be motivation to do something, once you realized that the life flashing before your eyes was still going on, you were not dead.