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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.

Comments

[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.