"I have and yes, there's no way to control it. It's random." A fact she despised like no other. A criminal could disappear without warning, bypassing justice. A friend could vanish and leave her alone. Above all else, the unpredictability of it left everyone grabbing at straws.

Re-l shook her head. "Raul, Daedalus, Pino, and me. That's it." She paused. "...And Proxy One." It wasn't that she forgot him. His presence was the constant second, quiet pulse beneath her own, which was now doubled with Vincent's proximity. But he rarely spoke, hiding away as he did in Romdeau. And she suspected Vincent already knew he was there.

"As I said, you were here before as well. But no one else has come here at any point."