"Astral projection?" Addy asks. "I never thought I'd come to miss the days when ghosts were the only thing you were trying to convince me of, but astral projection?"
"My mom has these guided meditation recordings, okay?" Diego says. "I've heard them like, a million times. They tell you how to do it. She's super into New Age stuff and says it's worked for her."
"This explains so much about you," Addy says. "Just what do you think that's even going to accomplish?"
"Well it's clearly not safe to try to learn about the Fog Beast from firsthand experience," he says. "If we can get a close look at whatever those things in the photos are while on the astral plane, maybe we'll know what we're actually dealing with. Figure out how they work. What they want, even. If they really are ghosts, maybe we could even see what happened to them, because I bet you that these are people the Fog Beast got to, just like Rex."
"So, kind of like time travel?" you ask. "You're talking about viewing events from the past."
"Yes and no," Diego says. "When people encounter ghosts, it's usually because somebody died pretty tragically or violently. That's why people often report hearing cries or screams, or seeing maimed figures, even witnessing someone's death play out. In a sense, by seeing a ghost, you are seeing through time."
"This sounds potentially super dangerous," Anuja says. "Specifically seeking out instances when people died terribly? When they were killed by that thing that attacked the boat?"
"It shouldn't be," Kirill says. "It should be like watching a memory. It already happened. Then again, nobody who's done this has ever had to worry about the Fog Beast."
"That's the third time this conversation. Are we really calling it that?" Addy asks.
Kirill shrugs.
"So, who's going to be the one to do it?" Anuja asks. "Diego?"
"No," you say. "I am."
"Just why are you so eager to do this?" Addy asks.