[L quirks a brow, as he tends to when Kyle says something that sounds unbelievable on paper while still, somehow, not being a lie.]

I've been registering it almost nonstop, since...

[Since everyone died, he doesn't say, but one moment that grassroots community had been optimistic and preparing, and the next most of them were simply snuffed out by what started as a thrumming pulse in the deep.]

You're real, aren't you? We're dreaming, but... it's you, and not a piece of my mind that happens to resemble you. True, or false?