Julius listened without interrupting, which was how he listened when information was new and required him to update several things at once.
Lin's expression, beside him, was the one she had when something confirmed a theory she had already been carrying but hadn't been able to verify. Her eyes moved between the girls and the point where the artifact had sunk back into the ground, connecting what she was hearing to what she had already seen.
Reed listened while his hands continued their work. Fern listened with her eyes fixed on Ren's face.
Taro listened and understood roughly half of it, his expression was honest about that. Liu stood with his arms crossed and his jaw set in the way of someone who doesn't like what he's hearing but knows he needs to hear it.
