Chapter 16 rooftop

Luo Ying heard the quarrel in the room at the door of the ward.Dr. Rainey pushed her wheelchair, and she sat quietly, listening to the interrogation-like questioning in the room.She quickly understood the crux of the quarrel.The conversation in the room was like a small hammer hitting her chest, every word.The corridor was long and dark, there was no one in the middle of the night, the air was cold and dry, and she shivered slightly as it covered her body. Uncle Juan was searching for details, attacking, disrupting, and forcing Yige to admit to the conspiracy, trying to find clues to the conflict and create a reason for the war.Uncle Juan has never given up on the idea of ​​using force, but he lacks a reason, a strong and unquestionable reason.The details are the reason.In the face of the situation, there is no need to be rigorous.One mistake by one person can cause many things. It is not very important who the person is and what the mistake is.Fortunately, Yige did not transmit any data to the earth, but if there is any output, the conspiracy theory must be established.

She sat in the wheelchair and held onto the arms of the wheelchair tightly.She was still weak from the surgery, with weakness in her hands.When Juan threw his loud questioning, her shoulders couldn't help shaking, as if Uncle Juan's voice had quality, and it was thrown directly at her through the wall. Her mind was in a mess, but she didn't know what to do.She didn't want Yige to be questioned for no reason, not only because Yige's teacher was also mother's teacher, but also because she didn't want to see any innocent people being accused. At this time, a hand wrapped around her shoulder from behind her, thick and powerful, with a warm palm.She calmed down in the warmth, and looked back gratefully. Dr. Rainey's face was very tolerant in the night.An idea slowly came to her mind.

"Dr. Rui Ni," Luo Ying said very softly, "Can you do me a favor?" "Of course." Reni agreed, his words were gentle and affirmative. "Can you... hug me in? Hold me higher..." After hearing this, Rui Ni nodded peacefully, without asking why, bent down, supported Luo Ying's legs with her right arm, supported her waist with her left arm, lifted her onto his right shoulder, and hugged her high. .Luo Ying sensed a rare sense of firmness that people can rely on.Rainey is of average height, but has strong shoulders and arms.Luo Ying was flustered at first, but she stopped being afraid when she sat down firmly.She hadn't been picked up like this in a long time.The last time was five or six years old.She hasn't let anyone hug her since her father died.She was sitting on Reni's shoulders, her feet were hanging lightly in the air, her right foot had just undergone surgery, and there was no feeling of touch, and her left foot was cold, shivering in the darkness of the corridor.

She pushed open the door carefully, trying to restrain the panic in her heart.The adults in the room cast their eyes on her in unison. She felt her whole body was stiff, she held her breath, and supported herself with her breath.She saw complex expressions on everyone's face, ranging from worry and concern to incomprehensible hesitation, like searchlights shining on her face from all directions. She said what she wanted to say, and as she expected, she saw greater doubts. "Yes, I know," she said, "I'm serious." "But there must be a reason, right?" Brother frowned and stared at her, "Did you know Mr. Yige before?"

"Yes, I know." Luo Ying pretended to be shy and said, "I know Mr. Yige, and... I like him. I like Mr. Yige since I was on earth. I like the movies he made and his articles So this time I let him come to my space, and let him visit the tower, because the tower is the place where my mother took me, and I want to take the person I like. This is the whole process, you can check it, I Arrived at the tower too, passed through the mother's space. That's it." After she finished speaking, she saw a look of embarrassment in the room.The adults looked at each other, their sleeves rubbing against each other.She pretended to be serious in order to dissolve the real seriousness.She pulled out unwarranted feelings to offset unwarranted charges.The adults were silent, no one knew what to do with a girl's crazy love affair.Uncle Juan's face was dark and red, and it was cloudy and sunny.Luo Ying looked at him, full of expectation. She knew that he couldn't stand her acting like a baby since he was a child.

Soon, Juan cleared his throat, saying that everything has been recorded and the investigation can continue without drawing conclusions prematurely. Now that he said so, others have no objection.The stalemate was temporarily resolved.The prominent figures walked out of the room one by one, with their own priorities and concerns.Grandpa and brother wanted to stay and take care of her, Luo Ying pushed that she was too tired and asked them to come back tomorrow.Iggy didn't speak, but gave her a grateful glance before going out. Luo Ying sat quietly on Reni's shoulder.It wasn't until everyone had left, the room was empty, and everything was silent, that she suddenly fell down as if she had lifted a heavy burden.Dr. Rainey stretched out his stiff arms to catch her limp and fallen body.

※※※ The corridor is long and empty, with soothing tenderness in the darkness.At the end of the corridor was a crescent of glass, from which a distant pale blue light shone.Rui Ni pushed Luo Ying and walked slowly along the corridor.Luo Ying said she didn't want to sleep, so Dr. Rui Ni pushed her out to relax.The two figures were wrapped in the dark corridor, and the axles of the wheelchair made regular clicking sounds. "Thank you." Luo Ying said softly. "It's nothing." Dr. Rainey's voice was gentle, "Where do you want to go?" "I don't know. You can go anywhere."

He silently pushed her to the elevator, and then to the elevator.From the beginning to the present, he has never asked her anything.They made an arc, passed through a drawing room, skirted a storeroom displaying monstrous instruments, and came at last to an elaborate archway. Rui Ni opened the door and pushed Luo Ying in. At that moment, Luo Ying thought she was back in Maeus.The door opened slowly, and night fell.She seemed to be propelled directly into the starry sky, into an infinite and gentle universe. This is a very wide roof.Facing it is a complete curved glass wall, and the solar panels on the roof are set aside to the sides, allowing the glass wall to extend to the top of the head without any trace.The wall is like an ellipsoid, calm and extremely transparent, making people feel as if they are in the wilderness without any shelter and a wide field of vision.The hospital is close to the outskirts of the city, the roof is higher than ordinary buildings, and the surrounding scenery is panoramic. The nearby houses are in order, and the distance is dotted with stars. A black sleeping beast.The layout of the roof is minimal, the ground is smooth and clean, a winding shallow pool passes by the foot, and there is nothing else.Luo Ying faced the night sky and took a deep breath. She did not expect such a beautiful world in the hospital.

"This is almost the southernmost point of the city. From here, you can directly face the big cliff." Dr. Rainey explained behind her.His voice is low and slow, which fits perfectly with the night. Luo Ying looked out of the glass and didn't speak for a long time.The big cliff stood like a black sword in the distance, and the night swept her body, and her anxiety was slowly relieved.The starry sky covers everything, unobstructed, and she seems to have returned to the dance scene, using the universe as the stage, facing the planets at both ends: the earth is blue and green, Mars is red and orange rough, with cold eyebrows, the closest, but as if furthest.The stars are shining in every direction, bright and dark, boundless, and there is a lonely self dancing in the center of the universe.

Luo Ying closed her eyes, leaned gently towards Rui Ni who was standing aside, and the troubles in her heart slowly flowed into the air in the night.Rui Ni felt very safe to her, that kind of reliance was the reliance of her long-forgotten parents, like an autumn tree, lush and restrained, mature and calm.His movements are always decent and steady, like a paper knife, concise and precise. After a long time, she finally spoke.The roof was wide, and she heard her own voice like the tiny flame of a candle. "doctor……" "Just call me Reni." "Rani...doctor, am I going to live here long?"

"Shouldn't be used." Dr. Rainey replied calmly and firmly. "It's just an ordinary phalanx fracture, and it will recover soon." "Will I be able to walk in the future?" "Of course. Don't worry." "What about dancing?" Luo Ying asked this question very urgently, not because she was in a hurry, but because she was afraid that she would not be able to ask if she hesitated.She felt that Dr. Rainey hesitated before answering, just for a moment, for how long she could not estimate. "It's hard to say now. Let's observe for a while." "……What does it mean?" Rini was silent for another moment, then said, "Your main problem is not a fracture, but tenosynovitis. The inflammation is severe, and I don't know how it caused it. Dancing...is still fine, but I suggest you stop, so as not to suffer further damage in the future." Big damage." Luo Ying's heart sank, she knew what this meant better than anyone else.Rennie's words were clear and restrained. Obviously, he didn't want to provoke her too much, and he didn't want to act like a strong parent, but his meaning was clear enough, and the implication in his words was clear enough.Luo Ying could guess his answer.Ever since she heard the words tenosynovitis, she had a natural answer in her heart.Inflammation is always worse than shock, never worse and never healed.Severe inflammation can be a nightmare for people who depend on fine movements in their joints.If you don't want to be permanently disabled, the best way is to quit forever. Rainey's sentence was like an iron ball falling into the water at night, hitting the bottom of the water all the time.The feeling in Luo Ying's heart was not astonishment, but the feeling of the blown sand falling down. In fact, she had expected this result long ago.On Earth, she had many times where it was difficult to take off. Faced with a gravity three times that of Mars, her legs and feet seemed to be tied with lead stones, and it was difficult to lift an inch.At that time, she often thought that sooner or later, her feet would not be able to withstand this battle against gravity, and sooner or later she would be defeated.She thought about two endings: one is that she can no longer dance before she can go home in time, and the other is to grit her teeth and survive those years and return to Mars to fly completely.But she didn't expect the ending to be so untimely.She finally came home, but couldn't dance anymore.As soon as she got away from that huge gravitational field, and as soon as she was able to stretch lightly, she could no longer jump.She has just finished the days of gritting her teeth and the hope in the days, so she is no longer blessed to suffer the pain she has suffered.The curtain fell on the stage, and the scene ended hastily.Sometimes there is a little fire between the stars, but it is fleeting, leaving only silence.I jumped so hard, trying to cross the impassable distance, but I still couldn't succeed after all.The ankle is worn beyond the load, but still can't reach the sky.I stretched out my hands with all my strength, but I still couldn't connect the two planets.In the end, I still fall down and can only give up in the end.Gravity cannot be surpassed, and neither can distance. But, why didn't there even be a decent curtain call?Luo Ying raised her head and looked at the Milky Way outside the dome.I'll take anything, but just want to finish the dance.She tilted her head up and shed tears. They were warm and moistened her neck, which had been stiff all night.This time, there was finally nothing to worry about.she thinks. Dr. Rainey squatted down on one knee, looked up at her, and saw her tears.He wears round-rimmed glasses, and his eyes look gentle and inclusive through the lenses.He didn't say words of consolation, but gently lifted Luo Ying's feet, and supported the boots made of metal filaments on her legs. "This is a special shoe, the foot is fixed, the metal wire on the leg is connected to the micro-sensor, and the sensor is connected to the micro-electrode, which can transmit the nerve activity from your ankle and above to the shoe to control walking. You can use it for a few days It takes a while to get used to walking, and you need to be very careful.” After he finished speaking, he asked Luo Ying to try to move around.She raised her right leg with no problem with her knee, and the contraction of her calf muscles was normal.She moved her ankle tentatively, and found that although she still had no feeling in her foot, the shoe followed the wire and moved quite freely. "Can you control it?" "OK." "That's good. Most people are not flexible at first." Luo Ying smiled bitterly. It was thanks to dancing that she could control it.The key to dancing is control, not the absolute height, but to let the toes appear in the right position at the right time, neither high nor low, so that every small muscle is under control, neither too tight nor casual.She looked at the small shoes and felt the thin metal wire wrapping herself, conveying the subtle movements faithfully, like sensitive and faithful emotions, translating nerve conduction into movements.Rui Ni has been squatting aside, watching quietly, neither asking nor urging. "Dr. Rui Ni," Luo Ying asked softly while moving, "are you a neurologist?" "Even so." "I never knew," she asked, "does it mean that people have more brain cells, or that there are more stars in the sky?" Rui Ni smiled slightly: "There are still more stars. Human brain cells only have more than 10 billion, but there are 300 billion stars in the Milky Way, and there are hundreds of billions of galaxies outside the Milky Way." "Then if each star is a brain cell and the entire galaxy is a great intelligence, it should be much smarter than humans?" "Unless stars can communicate with each other, like hormones between brain cells, intelligence is impossible. But it's difficult. The stars are too far apart, and there's no vacuum." Rennie paused at this point.Luo Ying was also silent.Rainey's words echoed empty in the air of the rooftop like the delirium of the night. "Doctor Rui Ni..." After a while, Luo Ying raised her head. "how?" "How old are you this year?" "Thirty-three years old." "Then do you remember what happened to Mars eighteen years ago, when you were fifteen?" "Eighteen years ago... that was twenty-two years of Mars, right?" "yes." "Something happened that year." There was a hint of meaning in Rainey's voice. "Do you remember?" "As most people remember," Rainey said, "it was a big year. Earth year 2172. The beginning of what we call the Age of Reconciliation." "Age of reconciliation?" "Yes. You should know that the Earth and Mars were completely separated for a period of time, right? In the first twenty years of the war, the Earth camp had a base on Mars, and the supplies sent for the Earth camp were often plundered by the Martian camp. But in the next twenty years , as the Earth camp evacuated from the surface of Mars and began space bombing, Mars was basically isolated. All supplies need to be produced by yourself, including food, water and clothes. It sounds difficult, but it has to be done. If If we can't do it, we wouldn't be who we are now. "In the first ten years after the war, the earth and Mars were still completely separated. Some people believed that they should not bow their heads to plead with the earthlings, but Garcia insisted that the long-term prospects should not be ruined for the sake of grievances. He was thirty-three years old at the time and became The first diplomatic ambassador. I don’t know how he did it, I just know that he did it. Ten years after Mars, Maus started to operate, and after two years of operation, the two sides had the first transaction. We use a chip In exchange for technology, a batch of nitrogen-containing chemicals on the earth began to be exchanged. Then there was a ten-year exchange of materials. The two sides exchanged resources and technologies with each other, just like the most primitive barter and guarded against each other. Everything It was all carried out on Maeus, and none of the Martians descended to the earth, and none of the earthlings came to Mars. This continued until the twenty-two years of Mars, which is the beginning of the era of reconciliation. We have reported for a long time at that time , as the end of one history and the beginning of another." "That year was the first time people from Earth came?" "Yes. Mainly to learn technology. This can be regarded as Mars' voluntary concession. Let the earth people come first to ensure their safety, and let them send representatives to learn the advanced technology of Mars. Mars took a considerable risk in this step. We The only thing that can compete with the earth is the constantly updated technology. If the people on the earth learn the essence, it is difficult to guarantee that it will not pose a threat to Mars. However, the decision-makers at the time believed that the first step must be taken. If there is no interaction, Mars will suffer in the end. Earth can survive independently, but Mars is still very difficult. Eighteen years ago, the first mission from Earth visited, with a total of ten people learning five Martian technologies.” "Is there imaging technology in it?" "Yes, it was a very important communication technology at that time. One person insisted on staying." That is mother's teacher, Luo Ying thought in her heart, he is also Yige's teacher.He's not a sculptor, but he talked to his parents about art.He aroused the artistic dreams of parents in their youth, brought them the breath of freedom on earth, and the concept of flow.He and they discussed the history of ideas in the study, trying to integrate the different ways of life of the two planets.His breath, his images, and his words will always remain in the study.His arrival was accompanied by his own birth, so my mother said that she was the light, and birth was accompanied by the arrival of communication. If it wasn't for him, mom and dad wouldn't have died.If it wasn't for the death of mom and dad, she wouldn't go to earth.And if she hadn't gone to Earth, she wouldn't want to pursue the past.Everything has already been written.Thirteen years after she was born, she was destined to embark on this journey of searching for the past. This was her destiny, her innate destiny. She looked at the stars and began to look for the lonely silver ship against the dark background.There's the lonely captain on board, alone, among twenty million and twenty billion people who don't understand him.He has lived for thirty years and is nearing the end of the road.The starry sky is so vast that she can't see anything, she can only imagine what it looks like.She imagined that Garcia walked alone through the corridor where the banquet ended, his footsteps were slow due to old age, and he stopped at the front of the cabin, looking at Mars, the city he loved but could never return to, through the floor-to-ceiling portholes. She began to miss the carefree days on Maeus.At that time, she was also sitting in the arms of the stars, and time stood still every night.She and her friends ran around in the cabin, sat in front of the dome porthole, drank Gio, and laughed loudly at Maeus for being shabby.They jumped into the zero-gravity cabin, twisted their bodies, tossed and turned, enjoyed the unfettered comfort of using every small muscle, and watched the little ball flying around.They kicked, turned, danced, wiped their sweat and laughed, hugged each other, gulped and drank, and did not sleep.At that time, she was so homesick, and wanted to go home so much, thinking that she could get away from all anxiety and troubles by going home, but now she found that only the old cabin was the source of stability.She lived a simple and pure life there, and only there could she live a simple and pure life.There is no fear, no man against man, no man against the world, and no world against the world. "Doctor Rainey, do you know my grandpa very well?" "still alright." "Then can you tell me one thing? Tell me frankly." "What's up?" "Grandpa, is he a dictator?" "Why do you ask that? Earthlings said that?" "Well, yes." Luo Ying nodded and recalled that this was the first time she told this past story, "The first time was at a grand international conference, which seemed to be called the Seminar on the Future of Humanity, and my partners and I Representatives of Mars were listed as guests. It was in a brightly lit hall, filled with people in suits and ties. The hall has a long history, and it is said that it was the place where the revolutionary declaration was issued in the passionate revolutionary age hundreds of years ago. The roof is high and solemn, Religious murals are painted, as if there are gods looking down from the clouds. "We were all cautious at the time, sitting upright in our chairs, trying to be the only representatives of Mars. The meeting has been smooth and boring. Various well-known scholars came to the stage to give speeches, most of which were things we didn't understand. We could hear Incomprehensible and boring, just about to find an excuse to leave, but suddenly a professor talked about Mars. "'Gentlemen,' said he, 'I will say that, despite the warnings of Mr. Orwell in Brave New World, Mr. Huxley in Brave New World, and Mr. Kafka in a series of brilliant works The warnings in the book are so clear and powerful, but human beings are still realizing their predictions step by step. People live in blindness, just like the movie "Matrix" two hundred years ago. A machine age is coming. The rule of the system over people is not a sentence False. A powerful automatic system that involves human beings as parts is being generated, and it is approaching human beings step by step, swallowing and engulfing them. It often disguises itself, pretending to be a beautiful garden so that people cannot see the truth. However, no matter its appearance is terrifying or sweet, its essence is the killing and enslaving of human nature. Mars is our best example. Gentlemen, I ask you to imagine, if it is not for the assistance of such a machine system, With a dictator with ulterior motives, how can he maintain such a crazy and persistent betrayal, let those people with brains collectively betray their promises, give up their existence, and go to perish?'” Rainey interjected softly, "Does he know who you are?" "I think he knows." Luo Ying said, "I saw his eyes glance at me intentionally or unintentionally, and he seemed to smile slightly. But he didn't stop, and continued to say passionately: 'So, sir Dear friends, I ask you to always remember this. We must always be vigilant to all the small signs that may appear around us that will bring people into a huge dictatorship system. The so-called future of mankind must survive in such vigilance. The tragedy of Mars cannot be Repeat on Earth.' "I felt very cold at the time, and my lips must have turned white. Chenia grabbed my hand from the side. Her hand was also cold. I looked at the audience, as if I saw a sea of ​​human heads without facial features. The lights were blindingly bright, and the sound seemed to be coming from all around. I felt scared, and only habit supported me to sit upright. It was probably the longest day I can remember." Rennie waited for her to calm down, and said gently: "Don't pay too much attention to his words. If a professor deliberately stimulates a little girl on such an occasion, then he is definitely not a gentleman." "I'm fine now," Luo Ying turned to look at him and nodded, "I've done this many times, and I'm used to it. I don't think he intentionally attacked me, but a pleasure of revealing the truth. Actually, I don't care if he is malicious, I just care about what he said. I want to know if what he said is the truth." She looked up at Rui Ni, "Dr. Rui Ni, are you the parents punished by grandpa?" "yes." "Are Mom and Dad accused of betraying Mars?" Rui Ni didn't answer directly, but squatted down, squatting on one knee beside her, and sent a warm look through the glasses: "Now that things are up to now, it is not the key to question their charges, the key question is, your grandpa What do you want to go to Earth to learn?" Luo Ying was a little surprised: "Know what?" "Deep in your grandpa's heart, he actually agrees with what your parents say. But he's the governor, and he can't agree." "Agree to... what?" "Economic freedom and career mobility, this is what your parents want, but he cannot agree with this. If he agrees, the unification of the database and the unification of the economy will be in crisis. He understands the necessity of Mars' economic unification, but he also I know that the autonomy of a person's living environment is often an important condition for spiritual creativity. He is the governor, and he can't express anything. Can you understand this?" "So... which system does Grandpa think is better?" "This is not a question of whether it is good or not, but a question of whether we can choose. The victory of the war at the beginning lies in the ability to gather all knowledge into the electronic space, centralize decision-making, and be powerful and fast. The electronic space is longer than our country. After peace Both politics and art are based on this. It is not a question of how to choose, but a question of the historical path. Your grandfather knew that the historical path cannot be chosen. At the education demonstration meeting that year, your grandfather advocated sending students You can imagine why. His vote counted, not only because your grandfather was the governor, but also because the situation was very balanced and the discussions were complicated, with equal parts for and against , Your grandfather’s vote is almost the final decision. And your group name is also set by him, Mercury, you should understand, the god of communication, the messenger of the gods.” "Grandpa... wants me to go to the earth, because he wants me to understand the concept of parents?" Rui Ni still didn't answer directly, just sighed softly: "He said several times, you are like your mother." Luo Ying remembered the evening when she just came home, and her nose suddenly felt sore. "Doctor Rui Ni," Luo Ying asked very lightly, "What kind of person is grandpa?" Rui Ni paused for a while, and said slowly: "Your grandpa...is an old man with too much psychological burden." Luo Ying couldn't help it suddenly, tears streaming down her face.The doubts that had accumulated for many days also flowed out along with the tears at this moment.Many, many days of tears, 1,800 days and nights of separation and worry, slowly flowed out as the tension was relieved. "Dr. Rainey, do you know much about the past?" "Not a lot," Rainey replied, "it's just that everyone has something special about him." "Can you tell me about it?" "It's too late today. If you want to hear it, I'll tell you another day." Rui Ni hugged Luo Ying's shoulder and patted hard.Luo Ying leaned on Rui Ni's arm, tears flowed quietly in the peaceful and broad night, she hadn't shed tears like this for a long time.She bid farewell to confusion like a farewell dance in tears, and faced her former death like a foot injury.She saw the sky, the earth, and the distant farewell planet. ※※※ Rui Ni has been standing behind Luo Ying, hugging her shoulders, resting her head on his waist, slowly comforting her back, until finally she calmed down, then gently patted her arm and said: " Go back to sleep. Tomorrow, everything will be all right." Leaving the blue ocean-like rooftop, Rui Ni pushed Luo Ying back to the ward.In the dead of night, the long corridor looks quiet and deep. There are white wall lamps on the wall, but the light is weak, which only adds a little mystery to the corridor.The wheelchair slid slowly, gliding through the busy laboratories, instrument rooms, and operating rooms during the day, turning corners, passing stairs, and passing sleeping rooms. When he turned the last corner and was about to reach the ward, two tall black figures suddenly came into view. Luo Ying screamed, and the two black shadows were frightened by her scream, and they also screamed.Rui Ni quickly turned on the light, and the milky white ceiling light turned on. Luo Ying could see in the uncomfortable light that Anka and Mira were standing in front of her. "Why are you?" "We're here. I saw that there was no one in the room. I wonder if you haven't finished the operation yet, so you just waited for a while." Mira explained with a smile. "Not long," said Anka. Luo Ying warmed up softly in her heart, and asked softly, "Why don't you turn on the lights?" Mira grinned and said, "We tell each other stories about our childhood, and there is an atmosphere with the lights off." Anka didn't say anything, blue eyes and Luo Ying looked at each other, with a smile in their eyes. "This is still hot, eat it." He picked up a box from the ground behind him and handed it to Luo Ying. "What is it?" "The pudding from Old Molly's." Anka seemed to be casually talking about some small item that came across by chance. "It's not far from my house. I bought it before the performance." "You don't know how hard it was to find a place to heat it up just now," Mira interjected. "We drove to several places, and always saw one store after another close before our eyes. It was only a short distance away twice." He said as he said While drawing a length of one meter with his hands, he smiled very seriously.His skin is brown and black, and his round face is like a little bear. Luo Ying smiled at Mira, her heart rippled like water.She looked into Anka's eyes, Anka's head did not turn away, and she also looked at her, his eyes were still as clear as she was familiar with.He still didn't say anything.But nothing is better than remembering in your heart.She said it, he remembered it, more than anything else. She stretched out her hand, took out a small plate from the box, forked up the pudding that was still warm, and took a small bite. It was so sweet that it melted in your mouth.She smiled and gave each of them a piece, but they said no, saying that it was only eaten by girls, she said no, she must listen to her today, she wanted them to taste her taste, so they forked it alone Pick up a piece and swallow it in one gulp.The night is like water, the lights shine on the smiling faces who have forgotten the time, the corridors are quiet and long without people, and the voices echo and swirl in the air, giving them a sense of home.