Togusa ponders and absently skritches the dog a few times to get his thoughts in order. Because a few of the first questions that pop up, he knows Zee either doesn't have the answer to, or Togusa already knows Retrospec's party line on. The question hits him all at once, one of the oddities of their situation that he has gotten used to, but shouldn't have.

"If there's a physical aspect to the layers, like you said, almost as if we're gaining physical territory as we remember more. Then what happened to the world outside these cities? We got cut off, and then," Togusa gestures to Zee. "We got access to the four regions and to you. So what happened to everything else?"

"We can't really leave, I can't get a call through to my parents in Japan. I got," he waves a hand, "once or twice, really short. Is that also part of the plan, or is that something that went wrong?"