[It's a question Anthony's been asked more than once since the process began - he reads nothing into the phrasing.]

Fine - thank you... -- Xander. [Tried to deliver that in a polite and sufficiently convincing unbroken and even tone - that last pause was on catching himself and correcting from a habitual "sir" on recollecting what was said on it the last time he and the source of this voice spoke.] -- It's -- already been almost a week since it - got -- more - obvious... -- It happened the night the -- ...light - reappeared. The -- pink light - in the sky.

[Likewise concerned - and additionally curious in a way of a simple and plain curiosity.] -- Did you, er - see it -- ? If I may ask...