Each strand lights up in turn, leading to a brief look up from each figure on the other end of it. Elda, however, does not have a cord attached to her, and neither does Misaki.

The woman looks past Togusa to Elda. She doesn't need to say the answer to Togusa's question out loud. "You are really here. They aren't. Just shadows of reflections. But they are a part of him, I'm-" she turns to consider Togusa gently. "Not. Anymore."

"Hitori," perhaps odd to hear his first name used, "can't see what is wrong here. Maybe you can show it to him."