[ The hand that Natalia sends to meet Lina's is actually her prosthetic left. It's a little bit more impersonal, but it is still a part of her, and as such she doesn't feel too bad to use it in this instance. She does still want a free hand, after all.

She wonders if Lina minds.

Either way, she shakes her head ] No, I guess it is, when everyone's vanished. ... I did manage to get one call through, but I talked with his mother instead. Anyway, like I said, he's a little like my older brother, five years older than me and we grew up on neighboring plots of land. He joined the military when he was eighteen, though, so I didn't see him in person for a while.