[ the handsome comment earns a blink, but not a reply. he nods his understanding when she goes on, still standing stock still to her constant motion. frank gets being restless, but he has a purpose here: a mission. he had never failed objectives before and he doesn't intend to now. the stakes are just as high as they were what seems a lifetime ago. ]

You might get there a few more times, then. When you die here, you get reset. That means you wake up back here, in the room you just came from. You'll have some fun memory loss, too. [ but there's been rumblings; ruminations about getting reset too often. maybe one time all of you doesn't come back. and maybe you start to change -- maybe that's how the sound eaters were born. frank's not big on speculation, but he knows he's going to try harder not to get reset after going through that ordeal once (and for nothing, he might add.) ]

There are communal houses. If you can get into House 6, it's all been soundproofed. If you're not fast enough, I can help you. [ since these hands are the ones that soundproofed six anyway. ]