Chapter 288 --288
A pause.
Not uncomfortable. The specific quality of a silence that was holding something that both people in it were aware of and neither was rushing toward or away from.
"The relay," he said.
"I read your response," she said.
"I know," he said. "I know you read it."
"The PS," she said.
Something moved at the corner of his mouth.
"Did the system have anything to say," he said.
[For notes: Here, everyone thinks that the system is a magic animal created by Elara, as she is a brilliant mage, and also it’s because the system could not stay calm, always jumping around, so Elara had to just tell him to come out.]
"It made a sound," she said. "Which it does when it’s not saying anything."
"And does the sound mean something specific," he said.
"It means it contains multitudes," she said.