"You mean, they...actually knew you guys were gone?" he asked, unease knotting up in the pit of his stomach at the thought. As far as he knew, most people didn't know their friends had been taken in the first place until they found each other in the institute. Some people seemed to take that as a sign that, somehow, things were all right back in their own worlds, but Claude had always suspected that their memories had been tampered with from the moment they first arrived. If what Guy said was true, then that could only mean that his worst fears were confirmed.
Claude could imagine how frustrating that must have been, to sit there and watch people you knew talking about your disappearance without being able to do anything to reassure them, or tell them where you were. The closest thing he could think of were some of the scenes he'd been forced to witness while traveling through the four Fields, but that didn't sound like quite the same as what Guy and the others went through. He wondered how that must have been for Luke, since he imagined his parents would have to be pretty worried about him. And if the king was involved, things had to look pretty serious to those they left behind.
But was it all real? Claude couldn't say for sure. He could see how it could be an illusion, but given how easily he'd been tossed around the building, and then onto the Calnus, who was to say for sure that it was all fake? Landel had been able to reach into different universes to take them back here in the first place. With that in mind, it was easy to see how he might have been able to manipulate the space-time continuum yet again to throw everyone's respective homes into their faces.
"Might have been a form of holographic technology," he murmured as he mulled over the possibilities. "But I don't understand why Landel would do bother with it when the stuff at his disposal is way more advanced than that. It shouldn't have been difficult to at least make the walls feel real to you guys."
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Claude could imagine how frustrating that must have been, to sit there and watch people you knew talking about your disappearance without being able to do anything to reassure them, or tell them where you were. The closest thing he could think of were some of the scenes he'd been forced to witness while traveling through the four Fields, but that didn't sound like quite the same as what Guy and the others went through. He wondered how that must have been for Luke, since he imagined his parents would have to be pretty worried about him. And if the king was involved, things had to look pretty serious to those they left behind.
But was it all real? Claude couldn't say for sure. He could see how it could be an illusion, but given how easily he'd been tossed around the building, and then onto the Calnus, who was to say for sure that it was all fake? Landel had been able to reach into different universes to take them back here in the first place. With that in mind, it was easy to see how he might have been able to manipulate the space-time continuum yet again to throw everyone's respective homes into their faces.
"Might have been a form of holographic technology," he murmured as he mulled over the possibilities. "But I don't understand why Landel would do bother with it when the stuff at his disposal is way more advanced than that. It shouldn't have been difficult to at least make the walls feel real to you guys."