It sounded like Claude had also been banking on the fact that time didn't progress back in their home worlds, and having that debunked was kind of hard to deal with. Even though there was a chance that the whole thing was just some elaborate illusion, he wanted to give Claude all the details on the off chance that it would be useful to know. "Yeah," he responded, "we showed up in the throne room first off, and the king was talking about how Natalia had just disappeared." Which he still hadn't gotten to the bottom of, but he got the feeling he'd be finding out soon enough. "I've told you about her before, right?" He was almost certain that he had, but Claude wasn't at his best right now, so he wouldn't be surprised if it'd slipped his mind.
"But yeah, they were acting as if the rest of us had been gone, too. Even Peony." Which implied that when he'd disappeared from here, he hadn't gotten to go home, but out into the world here. Guy had already gotten that feeling, but this did confirm it -- assuming that everything they'd seen and heard had actually been real.
When Claude suddenly came out with a term that Guy didn't recognize, he focused in on it. This was what he'd been hoping for -- that his friend might have some sort of insight into what had happened, just as a result of his own knowledge about Earth and its technologies. "Holographic?" he parroted. "What's that mean?"
But his friend brought up a good point. Landel clearly had immense capabilities, which meant that he'd made them experience Baticul that way on purpose. The question was what his intention had been. Maybe it was just as a method to make them second guess everything they'd already decided was true, or maybe to only give them some idea of what it would be like to finally return -- just so that he could later rub in the fact that they couldn't get back, if he got his way. There were a number of different possible reasons, and they could never know for sure which was the correct one.
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"But yeah, they were acting as if the rest of us had been gone, too. Even Peony." Which implied that when he'd disappeared from here, he hadn't gotten to go home, but out into the world here. Guy had already gotten that feeling, but this did confirm it -- assuming that everything they'd seen and heard had actually been real.
When Claude suddenly came out with a term that Guy didn't recognize, he focused in on it. This was what he'd been hoping for -- that his friend might have some sort of insight into what had happened, just as a result of his own knowledge about Earth and its technologies. "Holographic?" he parroted. "What's that mean?"
But his friend brought up a good point. Landel clearly had immense capabilities, which meant that he'd made them experience Baticul that way on purpose. The question was what his intention had been. Maybe it was just as a method to make them second guess everything they'd already decided was true, or maybe to only give them some idea of what it would be like to finally return -- just so that he could later rub in the fact that they couldn't get back, if he got his way. There were a number of different possible reasons, and they could never know for sure which was the correct one.