"Not if what the Void Ministry's told us is true. Wouldn't my body still be around here-- some... where...."

Some of the color drains from his face. Someone just realized that his body's possibly around here somewhere. It takes him a moment to recollect himself and finish the thought: "My transponder would have still been operational in my body when I left, no matter what's...going on with it now."

Is this his body? Or is this still the train's... soul projection thing? He'd assumed automatically that the train had returned him to his body when this had all started, but obviously the ability to go to other worlds-- and for Koumyou to join him here in his-- means that the tethers are still functional. Right?

He massages his temple with his free hand. "Hold on a minute," he says to Koumyou. "House, I'm about to bring my primary Interface online. Can you pull all my net updates into your system and stop it from trying to download them?"

"Affirmative, Devero," the house's system says pleasantly. "Download commencing." On the e-center screen, a progress bar pops up in a corner. While the house system does that, he digs his Interface out of a pocket and reboots it.