The condolences were nodded away--they were not hers to accept, and she would likely not be passing on that message. It seemed more disrespectful to allow that she had spoken of another, than to withhold it. Either way, it was just a nicety in the end, human decorum further at work, and she passed it to consider the other thing Barnaby had said. Something she hadn't thought too much on, and now that she had time to consider, she wondered.

Was it only Digital life, and those immersed in computers that could read that as easily as anything spoken? Was it actually seen as strange? "Yes," she responded nonetheless. "The binary code translated to a repeated message over and over. Two names, and the statement that both were dead."