If the phrase gears turning was ever definitely applicable, it was now. Sam waited, eyeing Scott curiously as he watched the guy think things through. What came out of it was...
...information he already had. Okay.
Well, kind of. There was something new. The phones. Sam had outright lost any kind of outgoing communication, landlines disconnected, no cell reception. Apparently not Scott. The fact that the dialed numbers managed to ring...unless that in and of itself was an illusion, too, except he couldn't see any reason why it would be different between the two situations. Was it on purpose or merely a result of the constructed location?
Either way, it all led to the same conclusion: wherever they'd been, it was a contained area. Another room, only bigger.
"Like someone just shook out all the people, right? Guess adding in entire populations took too much effort." He frowned. "Did anything else happen while you were there, anything out of the ordinary? I mean, aside from the universe being deserted. Something you encountered, or a specific event."
Maybe not the most subtle way of going about the question, but there was far less of a need to be subtle here when giant birds and cats were bulldozing over people on a regular basis.
Besides, he needed to know. He and Peter had run over a demon and Dean had encountered robots. Given the otherwise stark emptiness of the area, those events each meant something. It'd happened for a reason, they hadn't just run into these things by accident or because there happened to be a demon wandering the highway because it was bored. Demons, especially, did not come in sets of one. Not when they decided to go after him, when they knew what he was capable of. There should've been at least two or three backing up that lone demon, but there wasn't.
And yeah, fine, a couple of cases wasn't enough to prove a pattern, but it was a start, and until Scott or someone else broke it, Sam was considering it as such. Wasn't like he had a hell of a lot else to go on. God, even if he managed to put together a pattern, figuring out what it could mean was worth another bottle of aspirin by itself.
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...information he already had. Okay.
Well, kind of. There was something new. The phones. Sam had outright lost any kind of outgoing communication, landlines disconnected, no cell reception. Apparently not Scott. The fact that the dialed numbers managed to ring...unless that in and of itself was an illusion, too, except he couldn't see any reason why it would be different between the two situations. Was it on purpose or merely a result of the constructed location?
Either way, it all led to the same conclusion: wherever they'd been, it was a contained area. Another room, only bigger.
"Like someone just shook out all the people, right? Guess adding in entire populations took too much effort." He frowned. "Did anything else happen while you were there, anything out of the ordinary? I mean, aside from the universe being deserted. Something you encountered, or a specific event."
Maybe not the most subtle way of going about the question, but there was far less of a need to be subtle here when giant birds and cats were bulldozing over people on a regular basis.
Besides, he needed to know. He and Peter had run over a demon and Dean had encountered robots. Given the otherwise stark emptiness of the area, those events each meant something. It'd happened for a reason, they hadn't just run into these things by accident or because there happened to be a demon wandering the highway because it was bored. Demons, especially, did not come in sets of one. Not when they decided to go after him, when they knew what he was capable of. There should've been at least two or three backing up that lone demon, but there wasn't.
And yeah, fine, a couple of cases wasn't enough to prove a pattern, but it was a start, and until Scott or someone else broke it, Sam was considering it as such. Wasn't like he had a hell of a lot else to go on. God, even if he managed to put together a pattern, figuring out what it could mean was worth another bottle of aspirin by itself.