Waver moves closer to Shiro as well, his hands trying not to crunch the brittle pages. The paper hasn't aged well, and Waver knows that there are bits flaking off right now, like the paper has bad dandruff.

"Looks like all the ink's faded over time," he says, practically pushing against Shiro to get the most light on the page. "That's not surprising, but it's definitely disappointing."

There are the faintest hints of what might have been schematics on the page, but time and light and everything else have rendered them useless.

Yeah, that's true. This new one, she's more talkative, but I trust her less for it in a way/