[It's particular, the way he lights up hearing that year. Like an exile suddenly encountering someone from his homeland.] 1891! And involved in the occult at that. A marvellous year for it, too.
[He waves it aside, but the difference is obvious: the man's comportment changes, his language shifts, everything sliding back with great familiarity into precisely the sort of behaviour that would be required of a young, upperclass man of Vanessa's time. You can take the boy out of the Victorian era, but you can't take the Victorian era out of the boy.]
Setting that aside, this in your hand is essentially a mobile variation on Mr Bell's telephone, only adapted over the years to be infinitely more practical. Each mobile has a number, and if you put in the number of any other mobile, it will ring up the other person. I'm not entirely certain why they're selling these hear when the lockets exceed these mobiles in their function, but perhaps the redundancy of the product will make it interesting to me again. It likely can also access the Internet—if the spirit world was willing to put its untouchable plane of information into a solid form at the press of a button, that would be the Internet—and I imagine it can take coloured photographs as well.
Mind you, in the year that model of mobile is from, most people use their mobiles more for texting—telegraphing each other without an intermediary—rather than voiced conversations. Ringing others up has gone well out of fashion.
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[He waves it aside, but the difference is obvious: the man's comportment changes, his language shifts, everything sliding back with great familiarity into precisely the sort of behaviour that would be required of a young, upperclass man of Vanessa's time. You can take the boy out of the Victorian era, but you can't take the Victorian era out of the boy.]
Setting that aside, this in your hand is essentially a mobile variation on Mr Bell's telephone, only adapted over the years to be infinitely more practical. Each mobile has a number, and if you put in the number of any other mobile, it will ring up the other person. I'm not entirely certain why they're selling these hear when the lockets exceed these mobiles in their function, but perhaps the redundancy of the product will make it interesting to me again. It likely can also access the Internet—if the spirit world was willing to put its untouchable plane of information into a solid form at the press of a button, that would be the Internet—and I imagine it can take coloured photographs as well.
Mind you, in the year that model of mobile is from, most people use their mobiles more for texting—telegraphing each other without an intermediary—rather than voiced conversations. Ringing others up has gone well out of fashion.