[ The temptation here is to tell her to forget about it (more important things at hand), but the more he protests, the more she'll be likely to remember out of spite (projecting), so he leaves this well enough alone.
Playing along with the subject change, Claude reaches down to the rolled-up schematics of the opera that he'd commandeered, taking the most relevant one and laying it flat on his side of the table. ]
—Right, the operahouse. As you might have seen, there is, in fact, an underground segment of it. Far below the ground floor, there's a subterranean level connected to the sewer systems through a complicated network of tunnels and riverwater from the Seine.
[ He points it out as a spiderweb of lines that fragment in the lower levels of the map. ]
Presumably to make equipment easier to carry to the building during construction. It hasn't been used since, and was largely thought to be obsolete... until now, I suppose. It's not the safest place to be, and much of the technology that'd been used to control the flow of water should be outdated. More traps than conveniences.
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Playing along with the subject change, Claude reaches down to the rolled-up schematics of the opera that he'd commandeered, taking the most relevant one and laying it flat on his side of the table. ]
—Right, the operahouse. As you might have seen, there is, in fact, an underground segment of it. Far below the ground floor, there's a subterranean level connected to the sewer systems through a complicated network of tunnels and riverwater from the Seine.
[ He points it out as a spiderweb of lines that fragment in the lower levels of the map. ]
Presumably to make equipment easier to carry to the building during construction. It hasn't been used since, and was largely thought to be obsolete... until now, I suppose. It's not the safest place to be, and much of the technology that'd been used to control the flow of water should be outdated. More traps than conveniences.