[Trace nod. Voice's still thin, tied-restrained.] Of - of course I did... yes...! I -- thought it was an accident -- that I learned my number. But -- one of my... schoolteachers was on - here, he - erm.

Tried to explain things. To me... And uh - then er - the -- strange... things... started happening. [Stranger than the connection to the network itself, that is.] We er - tried to keep it quiet, I think -- after one of us was murdered...

[Hence that it's not been apparent that Locke City's been quite as strange as it has been for an entire year.]