[He doesn't have a way of actually being more precise when he's pushing through the fog of nothingness.
'Well, it's a pattern.']
Doesn't exactly tell me anything.
['It doesn't?']
Is this you telling me it does tell me something?
['I'm you, John. That means you think there's something.']
It'd be great if I could tell me what I'm thinking, then.
[Mary sighs. 'There's a pattern. That means one of two things. Something is acting on you--seems more likely since you didn't have any feeling like you'd been holding that wood after it hit you--or something random's turned into a proper pattern, which means something's changed.']
There's nothing here to be acting on me.
['Nothing you can see.']
You think... like those ghost things people said they saw? The things collecting the quantum chips?
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Something like... 20 seconds. 10 seconds. 30 seconds total?
[He doesn't have a way of actually being more precise when he's pushing through the fog of nothingness.
'Well, it's a pattern.']
Doesn't exactly tell me anything.
['It doesn't?']
Is this you telling me it does tell me something?
['I'm you, John. That means you think there's something.']
It'd be great if I could tell me what I'm thinking, then.
[Mary sighs. 'There's a pattern. That means one of two things. Something is acting on you--seems more likely since you didn't have any feeling like you'd been holding that wood after it hit you--or something random's turned into a proper pattern, which means something's changed.']
There's nothing here to be acting on me.
['Nothing you can see.']
You think... like those ghost things people said they saw? The things collecting the quantum chips?