[He sighed softly at her question, instinctually looking up at the cavernous ceiling far above them. He wondered what it must be like up there now...]

We call them Shadows... I don't know what they really are. Code, I guess. [It all sounds very abstract. He looks back down at her.] I've only seen them once before. One of my friends... he got turned into an NPC. The world was punishing us for staying too long, and- [Yurippe said that it had something to do with her caring about them all too much... he figured he could keep that to himself. Besides, he suspected that hadn't been the catalyst this time.] -That message... I'm not sure what that was about, really.

[He wished he had more answers.] I'm Hinata, by the way. [He didn't recognize her, and now seemed as good a time as any...]