Like for us, we were two separate groups in the opera building, but we couldn't move between floors. Why keep us apart like that? If I looked over the balcony, I could see them downstairs, but we couldn't even talk to each other.
[He pulls out his notebook from an inner pocket of his jacket, and writes something.] It's hard to conceive of what kind of phenomenon could do such a thing, preventing even the travel of sound...
[He pauses abruptly, a peculiar look in his eyes. Then, after a beat, he resumes.]
I would say maybe whatever barrier was holding us blocked out noise, but then those weird sounds still reached us-- the singing, and the alarms and all that. Very selective. There could be a speaker system, I guess.
[ a very well hidden one, if they haven't found a trace of it. ]
But it does imply that if something happens, you would be unable to call for help.
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Like for us, we were two separate groups in the opera building, but we couldn't move between floors. Why keep us apart like that? If I looked over the balcony, I could see them downstairs, but we couldn't even talk to each other.
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[He pulls out his notebook from an inner pocket of his jacket, and writes something.] It's hard to conceive of what kind of phenomenon could do such a thing, preventing even the travel of sound...
[He pauses abruptly, a peculiar look in his eyes. Then, after a beat, he resumes.]
... across a short distance like that, I mean.
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[ a very well hidden one, if they haven't found a trace of it. ]
But it does imply that if something happens, you would be unable to call for help.