"What's so amusing about this?"
"You're not letting the amusement do the work."
"...Andy, that makes no sense and you know it."

Had she smiled back then? She had, hadn't she? Just a slight smile, barely noticeable compared to all the laughter and joy of the people around them, yet a smile all the same; one that meant that she was actually enjoying herself. They had been at goddamn Disneyland, and she hadn't smiled because the amusement park was supposedly the happiest place on earth, she had smiled because of him.

Now, standing on a carousel that had been toppled over and almost entirely buried in the vastness of the Dune District's sands, Yuze's expression lacks in any signs of happiness. Scientific curiosity, though? That much doubtlessly glimmers in those crimson eyes of his as they stare at a dusty white horse. More particularly: at the words that had been scribbled on its side as if someone had been hiding behind it when writing this.

don't trust people in lab coats

Oh, the irony.

What had happened here? Why weren't these people in lab coats to be trusted? Yuze looks at the modern ruins that surround him, and although those memories of a long lost past come, he tries to push past them: to focus on the here and now, on the question, and on finding answers.

If only he had known that the past was about to catch up with him.

QUEST: WRITING ON THE WALL