He almost asks, did they recognise the number, but offhand, he doesn't think anyone can. He could ask, did they look it up right then? Did they verify it was real to their database, or was it only real to the train?
There are things he could ask, but he's not cruel, really, and he's aware that it's his mental space making him aim down instead of toward better possibilities. So he lets himself be deadweight leaning into Inigo and says none of the viable, questioning, potentially hurtful things he could say. Doesn't even name his guess for who this is, since he doesn't have the guy's name anyway, or can't remember if he does. Just knows Inigo had watched his fiancee walk off, without looking back, and can guess if there were a series of people to ask after, that'd have to rate high on any list.
He could be wrong, though. He's used to that too.
"Did they work out how they were going to let you know?" A longer pause, and his own admission. "I asked if they could find a way for any of us to scan ourselves for our system numbers. They said they'd try, after we were all together again."
It feels like a tentative idea to offer, but it at least is... more positive than anything else that'd come to mind. Also possibly him repeating himself, but, it's more important to focus on the bright possibility of workable information than the severe lack of it they're all operating under.
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There are things he could ask, but he's not cruel, really, and he's aware that it's his mental space making him aim down instead of toward better possibilities. So he lets himself be deadweight leaning into Inigo and says none of the viable, questioning, potentially hurtful things he could say. Doesn't even name his guess for who this is, since he doesn't have the guy's name anyway, or can't remember if he does. Just knows Inigo had watched his fiancee walk off, without looking back, and can guess if there were a series of people to ask after, that'd have to rate high on any list.
He could be wrong, though. He's used to that too.
"Did they work out how they were going to let you know?" A longer pause, and his own admission. "I asked if they could find a way for any of us to scan ourselves for our system numbers. They said they'd try, after we were all together again."
It feels like a tentative idea to offer, but it at least is... more positive than anything else that'd come to mind. Also possibly him repeating himself, but, it's more important to focus on the bright possibility of workable information than the severe lack of it they're all operating under.