[ Even if the silence doesn't draw on long, it's just enough for someone as naturally jittery like Minakami to feel antsy. Should he have not brought it up? He's aware, god knows, that things happened during the storm that people wouldn't want to talk about. There's a flicker of a troubled look in his eyes, before he tucks it away with an affirmative nod: ]

Glad to hear that, then. I broke my leg when I was little, I know how much of an inconvenience it all is.

[ He looks blank for a moment, but-- right, the... He fumbles with the little catch to release the memory card, talking to cover his awkwardness: ] You don't know the half of it. In my world, a normal camera -- not even for motion picture, just photography -- it'd be... I can't begin to calculate the exchange rate from my time to this. Hundreds of thousands of yen, probably more. I'd never have dared to ask for one, if they hadn't given us the tele- cellphones like they were nothing.