[ that still makes no sense to her, but when has anything with the echoes?

his question makes her frown at him ] I just said-

[ she stops. stops, purses her lips and looks back towards the kitchen ]

...I'm not.

[ she leans back uneasily in the chair, rubbing the screen of her phone onto her pants ]

Sorry. It's just like... they've vanished. Dad's slow with answering the phone, but Matthias is practically attached by the ear to his.

It... nothing happened outside of the city, right? Our neighbour would have said something if anything happened out there.