[What the shit it's all coming apart in her hands. Case, which gives her two pieces, one smooth polished rock and then a piece that resembles a peculiar and geometric shell--and then she slides off the back of the rock, and Salvio's brow furrows. It's not that he's unfamiliar with complex machinery, objects with many parts and interlocking pieces--it's just bizarre watching her slip apart this thing.

All the same, he leans forward to examine the little metal things when she points them out.]

I see. [That is, he is looking, and trying to comprehend. It's not incredibly complex, but still.] The image, when it was captured--it could be stored? That is the trouble with the, um--I mean, one of the troubles--the images, in the Compendium, they are there and then gone again. I have replicated the, the ability to place the image, in the books, but they do not last. A day is the longest that I have been able to preserve. I should like to isolate some of it. I see it would be useful.

If you had a living battery again, those pictures. You would be able to see them? They have lasted through its death?