Actually, Claude was pretty sure this was the first time Guy had mentioned Natalia to him. He seldom talked about his life on Auldrant unless prompted to, and these days Claude found himself wary of asking too many questions for fear of dredging something up that Guy didn't want to go into. As nosy as he could be sometimes, Claude drew the line at doing anything that blatantly made his friends uncomfortable.
"Luke mentioned her to me once," Claude said. "She's a healer like Tear, right?" That was all he knew about her, but his limited knowledge didn't keep Claude from understanding the implications of people discussing her disappearance. Though it was true that there were other things that could cause a person to seemingly vanish, it sounded like Guy's friend might have gotten caught up in Landel's horrible game somehow. Was it a matter of time before she woke up in the institute? Or was everyone going to be left guessing?
If Peony was still missing, then that sounded like people who were "released" stayed missing in their own worlds. That only made sense, of course. Patients had been clinging to the idea that somehow their presence here had no bearing on the people and places they left behind, but Claude had always suspected that was just some convenient story many told themselves for comfort. There wasn't necessarily anything wrong with that, but it sure made facing potential evidence to the contrary pretty hard to accept. For Claude, it just made him depressed to see more weight added to his theory that his version of life back on Expel didn't jive with his friends' because his own memories had probably been screwed with.
Guy's question about holographic technology made Claude switch gears, though, and he was happy to explain. "You remember those rooms I told you about, with the grids and the omnidirectional diodes that project images everywhere? That's a form of holographic technology. It wouldn't be hard to make a convincing replica of Baticul using that, but I'm not sure why he wouldn't at least make the place feel real to you if he was going to go through all that trouble."
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"Luke mentioned her to me once," Claude said. "She's a healer like Tear, right?" That was all he knew about her, but his limited knowledge didn't keep Claude from understanding the implications of people discussing her disappearance. Though it was true that there were other things that could cause a person to seemingly vanish, it sounded like Guy's friend might have gotten caught up in Landel's horrible game somehow. Was it a matter of time before she woke up in the institute? Or was everyone going to be left guessing?
If Peony was still missing, then that sounded like people who were "released" stayed missing in their own worlds. That only made sense, of course. Patients had been clinging to the idea that somehow their presence here had no bearing on the people and places they left behind, but Claude had always suspected that was just some convenient story many told themselves for comfort. There wasn't necessarily anything wrong with that, but it sure made facing potential evidence to the contrary pretty hard to accept. For Claude, it just made him depressed to see more weight added to his theory that his version of life back on Expel didn't jive with his friends' because his own memories had probably been screwed with.
Guy's question about holographic technology made Claude switch gears, though, and he was happy to explain. "You remember those rooms I told you about, with the grids and the omnidirectional diodes that project images everywhere? That's a form of holographic technology. It wouldn't be hard to make a convincing replica of Baticul using that, but I'm not sure why he wouldn't at least make the place feel real to you if he was going to go through all that trouble."