[It was almost equally unsettling to find the USB's so- normal. They were the kind of small, portable drives that he kept paperwork on back home. As if their presence was to reinforce that even if this wasn't happening in his world, it could happen just as easily. Technology wouldn't help. That dirt could show up anywhere and possibly lead to the same situation in any world.]
[... and he nods, after flicking his eyes over the message from Lorem's device. It was an important part of the puzzle they were trying to piece together. They weren't going to be any better off for not knowing.]
I remember- [he signs, briefly, eyes back on the screen where they'd gotten the video to play. He pauses, bites his lip, then goes for his own device. He wanted to use the specific words, not just get by with local sign.]
That red dust was in Paris, too. Had it taken over the ground, like that? Is that why they nested there? [He can't remember enough, too caught up in the image of that freshly born sound eater, of getting everyone out to safety, of the people who didn't get out to remember the details that had seemed mundane at the time.]
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[... and he nods, after flicking his eyes over the message from Lorem's device. It was an important part of the puzzle they were trying to piece together. They weren't going to be any better off for not knowing.]
I remember- [he signs, briefly, eyes back on the screen where they'd gotten the video to play. He pauses, bites his lip, then goes for his own device. He wanted to use the specific words, not just get by with local sign.]
That red dust was in Paris, too. Had it taken over the ground, like that? Is that why they nested there? [He can't remember enough, too caught up in the image of that freshly born sound eater, of getting everyone out to safety, of the people who didn't get out to remember the details that had seemed mundane at the time.]