[It should be a moment where something dramatic happens, his knees should go weak or he should start crying or something, instead of just shutting down the way he knows he's doing. The panic drains away to leave a coldness in its wake.

Everyone I ever met was dust.

Kravitz is too.]

You're not real, I know-- I know you think you are, but that's not how people turn up here, they gotta come right through the portal.

[He steps forward, holds out his phone in offering, one of the articles open on the screen. Taako doesn't have it in him to explain.]