Addy and Anuja sit and listen without interjecting as the three of you tell them what happened and then play the recording. After you've finished, they continue their silence.
"I swear, it sounded just like Rex," you say just to fill the void. You all decided to meet up at the pier near Anuja's house where it's quiet and relatively private. Now it feels a little too quiet.
"It could have been a recording," is the first thing Addy says.
"That's what Diego said, but I don't know. It sounded like he was responding to what I was saying," you tell them.
Addy has no snarky remarks about this. They make no attempt to pull humor into the situation to ease the tension or make a point, but you almost wish they would because seeing them out of words is frightening.
"What should we do?" Kirill finally asks to prompt some kind of conversation.
"We can't tell anyone about this," Addy says. "Not yet, anyway."
"What? Why?" Diego asks. "What if he's alive and in trouble?"
"He's not alive," Anuja says. It's the first time she's spoken since you played the recording. "It was an open casket funeral, remember? We saw him. And then we saw them put him in the ground."
No one told you it was an open casket funeral.
"She's right," Addy says. "I don't know what's happening, but Rex is dead. Either that, or there's a very elaborate cover up going on. That's unlikely."
Addy turns to you for your opinion.