"I need to show you something. It's a video I took of this hallway" - she nodded toward the direction of the dining room - "and you."
"Why?" I rasped.
"I already told you I need to show you something."
"But why did you take the video of me?" My voice sounded lifeless, but I was too numb to care. My body was folding up, putting extra barriers between me and what she was about to show me. Already, I knew I wouldn't like it.
The video projected from the Mind-I in her palm onto the wall, a still shot of me with only slightly fewer scales. So, not that long ago.
"I took the video of you because of what you told me." She sighed. "Or what the Saelises inside of you said, rather."
"I remember," I said. "You said you could understand them, but you wouldn't tell me what they were saying."
"They were saying..." She firmed her mouth as she watched me closely. "Help her. That's what they said, in different variations, over and over again. Help her."