"It'll take a while before we get there…let's say this is the first room we were in."
Andrew pushes himself off of the wall to walk past Ellie to the center of the room to gesture to the hall itself.
"We were dropped in a pirate ship's captain's quarters, everything illustrated like an old-timey treasure map; us included. The only thing we were able to interact with was this large center table with a map of the United States under a magazine cut-out of a laptop."
He spreads his hands outwards like he's smoothing out a large sheet of paper on a table before returning back to Ellie.
"The map had photos of us on it, pinned on, I assume, the places where we lived: me, Tatsuko, and…the big guy, I haven't learned his name yet." Andrew knows it's inevitable that Ellie would learn of Kaoru's new nickname eventually, but he was damned intending on stalling until then. "Complete with username labels and writing about us next to the photos. Your brain appears to be quite creative - Tatsuko was Nemesis Dragon with 3's instead of E's, apparently you see me as "Tax Fraud Tom," and no, I will not be repeating his.
The laptop had a console asking each of us two questions, at least half of which you would have no way of knowing. His asked about his 'going rates' and something about a 'couch pirate,' Tatsuko's asked about her resentment and a first flame, and then mine were about my relation to a victim and a 'rival crew.'"
"…are you following so far?"
