[Something doesn't quite seem to compute here with Eleven. She might not really know technology, but she knows the photos need to come out of somewhere - Jonathan Byers likes photos, and Will sometimes talks and Mike and Eleven sometimes listen and...
They're all gone.
No...
No, she is gone. She's dead, and they're left behind, and...
Did she fail, then, to protect them? If she's dead, did the Mindflayer leave them alone or did it...
She has to hope it left them alone. Has to hope that her death was just a loss for them, and hasn't made things worse.
Eleven swallows hard and pulls the tablet back to her - if it's yanked from Riku's grasp a little before Eleven's hands touch it, well. Perhaps he notices. She doesn't know that he knows about her, after all. Her grip is white-knuckled.]
No - where does it come out?.
[He has to understand, doesn't he? Eleven has gotten better with words, but not so much that she can explain all of the complex thoughts in her mind, and it can be frustrating, to communicate and always be on the back foot. She'd rather focus on that, right now, than on thinking of her friends and family and how she's dead and how hopefully they're not, and what that means.]
I mean, it's okay, I didn't need my heart or anything. Cries in Riku.
They're all gone.
No...
No, she is gone. She's dead, and they're left behind, and...
Did she fail, then, to protect them? If she's dead, did the Mindflayer leave them alone or did it...
She has to hope it left them alone. Has to hope that her death was just a loss for them, and hasn't made things worse.
Eleven swallows hard and pulls the tablet back to her - if it's yanked from Riku's grasp a little before Eleven's hands touch it, well. Perhaps he notices. She doesn't know that he knows about her, after all. Her grip is white-knuckled.]
No - where does it come out?.
[He has to understand, doesn't he? Eleven has gotten better with words, but not so much that she can explain all of the complex thoughts in her mind, and it can be frustrating, to communicate and always be on the back foot. She'd rather focus on that, right now, than on thinking of her friends and family and how she's dead and how hopefully they're not, and what that means.]