Still, he couldn't imagine -- at least not yet -- how people could be trapped for already four months. That's a thing of study. And from everywhere? How everywhere was everywhere? Everywhere America or everywhere globally?
"Joshua," he said anyway as he took Simon's hand in a firm grip and gave it a good up-down movement in two counts. "Actually, my real name's Yoshiya Kiryu but since you're American, I'll let you call me Joshua. Hold on a sec."
Again, he tried his phone, eyes flying to the sky as he listened to a series of rings and then a voice telling him that the person he was trying to contact was unreachable. Joshua sighed as he shook his head and ended the call. "And he says this crosses through planes...
"Anyway," returning to Simon as he finally kept his phone for good, he asked him, "So, Simon, what else can you tell me about this place?"