Togusa hesitates and looks down, because he needs to remember this. "She kept talking about 'power' for the tech. They needed power to be able to activate whatever she activated to bring everyone back. She and Joanne and Maurice all used the term 'unreality' but never explained what it was. It was at the center of a bunch of-" he waves a hand, unsure, "places, centers of unreality, we'd walk in and the world would be completely different."

"We kept needing to bring back things from those centers, objects like pearls or coins. That might have actually been the key. She needed whatever was around those objects to make whatever it is Retrospec is up to work."