[ In truth, for Trevor, the dramatics- they do not help. But the alternative is doing through them and picking out the useful pieces of information and actually processing it all to find what is useful. It's easier to just memorize and recite the whole thing, to not think about any of it other than to commit it to memory. It allows him to distance himself from it more easily. It's just another family record he's memorized carefully, with fragments of useful information to be extracted and processed as they become necessary and not before.
The laboratory, at least the first one they come into and the only one that appears to be in use, is a great circular room. One of those lamps hums in its centre, and an inner ring of work surfaces surrounds it. Every inch of the space has been used for something, as if rather than clearing up when work was done Mathias had simply moved to a free table for the wake of working more quickly. And he had worked quickly, because even the great engine below the castle and the arc lamps must have been finished within the space of the month or two that it had taken for Rinaldo and Leon to hunt down Justine, return to find Mathias and Sara missing, and then come to find them and there are so many more things here besides.
The thing that Leon had mentioned is on one of the inner tables, a machine very much like the one below the castle, but in miniature, only about the size of a human head, and appearing just as much organic as mechanical. A maquette of the thing below the castle, attached by metal lines to a small version of one of those lamps which sparks from time to time, incomplete and not able to produce constant light. There are other lamps on the adjacent tables, and the thing hops between them when approached so always to remain as far as possible from contact.
Trevor, naturally, moves from table to table for a while, trying to catch it. Because Belmonts must always struggle to catch Dracula's castle, even its first prototype. ]
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The laboratory, at least the first one they come into and the only one that appears to be in use, is a great circular room. One of those lamps hums in its centre, and an inner ring of work surfaces surrounds it. Every inch of the space has been used for something, as if rather than clearing up when work was done Mathias had simply moved to a free table for the wake of working more quickly. And he had worked quickly, because even the great engine below the castle and the arc lamps must have been finished within the space of the month or two that it had taken for Rinaldo and Leon to hunt down Justine, return to find Mathias and Sara missing, and then come to find them and there are so many more things here besides.
The thing that Leon had mentioned is on one of the inner tables, a machine very much like the one below the castle, but in miniature, only about the size of a human head, and appearing just as much organic as mechanical. A maquette of the thing below the castle, attached by metal lines to a small version of one of those lamps which sparks from time to time, incomplete and not able to produce constant light. There are other lamps on the adjacent tables, and the thing hops between them when approached so always to remain as far as possible from contact.
Trevor, naturally, moves from table to table for a while, trying to catch it. Because Belmonts must always struggle to catch Dracula's castle, even its first prototype. ]
Shit, it's like the castle had a weird ugly baby.