It was kind of like that where I came from, too. At least, it was easier to walk over and find...
[He trails off as Jamie's last words hit. "All you'd do is wind up getting the thing wet"? For a moment, Riku's expression changes--first surprise, then a second or too where it might look like he's trying not to smile--and then he shakes his head.]
Not that kind of filtering. This... [He has to take a moment to figure out how to explain it.] Okay. Imagine that every time you talk to someone through this, you're sending out a letter to everybody else who has one. You might not do that normally, but imagine you did. Now imagine that instead of sending the letter out to everyone, you send it to just a few people that you want to see it. That's what filtering does.
So it's kind of like a water filter, if you want to think of it that way.
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It was kind of like that where I came from, too. At least, it was easier to walk over and find...
[He trails off as Jamie's last words hit. "All you'd do is wind up getting the thing wet"? For a moment, Riku's expression changes--first surprise, then a second or too where it might look like he's trying not to smile--and then he shakes his head.]
Not that kind of filtering. This... [He has to take a moment to figure out how to explain it.] Okay. Imagine that every time you talk to someone through this, you're sending out a letter to everybody else who has one. You might not do that normally, but imagine you did. Now imagine that instead of sending the letter out to everyone, you send it to just a few people that you want to see it. That's what filtering does.
So it's kind of like a water filter, if you want to think of it that way.