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[bypartisan]

[Is it possibly for a mental voice to sound giddy? Because there's a distinct giddy tinge to By's thoughts, for all that his words come out with his normal, lazy, lightly Russian-accented drawl.]

Byerly Vorrutyer here. We're on Earth, pre-spaceflight, although someone who isn't me will need to get a better read on the actual date and location. Linguistically, it's a hodgepodge. I can hear archaic Russian, a whole host of Asiatic and Romance languages, and something else I can't quite place.

If you can "hear" this, check in. We need to know who we've got to work with.

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[leftbehindagain]

She probably knows you were thinking it, but I think she'll appreciate not hearing it either way.

[Naoki's content to let the topic change be. There's not much he can say to make Dojima-san feel better about being trapped away from his daughter, even if it's likely Nanako-chan will never know he was gone. And he can't speculate any further on why Travelers come back when they die on jaunts, nor does he particularly want to.]

I can try to explain it. It's... at first it seems like this stuff just goes by in the moment, but if I concentrate a little, it's all still there. Makes catching up after a jaunt a lot easier.

[permastubble]

Like a computer archive? Or actually, like texting or instant messaging where everything happens right away, but there's a record you can go back and access. So it's just knowing it's there and knowing how to access it. Do you think about anything particular? Is it like opening up a file or...?

[leftbehindagain]

You can look for something in particular, if you know what a conversation was about - after the Grid, for example, there was a lot of Trump talk going on because four of them showed up, and then there was a phone to call them from the first Liminal Space afterward. We ended up batting around a lot of theories. Or you can sift through everything that's there and see what catches your attention.

[Not Sifting, though. That's something completely different.]

It's sort of like opening a file, I guess. I hadn't really thought about it like that before.

[permastubble]

All right. Let’s see what I can do.

[Ryoutarou focuses on what Adachi was talking about because that’s an easy enough topic and he knows Adachi. Then he imagines the different conversations as files with labels and tries to ‘open’ that one. A second later—]

Ha! I think I got it! Oof, it takes more effort than I was thinking, but that’ll probably get better with practice, right?

[leftbehindagain]

Yeah, it will. Take your time, give it a little practice, and you'll get used to it.

[permastubble]

I'm sure I'll get a lot of practice very soon. At least I'll have an easier time taking some notes once I find something to write them on.

Thanks, Konishi. This is a big help.