The Bone Flute was far more stubborn than the [Holy Scripture], or perhaps it simply felt less alive than the [Holy Scripture].
Elliot used [Spirituality Pressure] twice, but the Bone Flute said nothing.
Only then did Elliot remember that the [Holy Scripture] did not actually speak either. It was a book and could only display words, communicating through lines of text that appeared on its pages.
Perhaps this Bone Flute simply could not speak...
How could he communicate with something that could not speak?
Elliot thought for a moment, entered the dream, and applied pressure twice more, only to find that the Bone Flute seemed unable to speak in the dream either.
At last, he thought of a way.
Vanessa had previously conversed with Eleanor's corpse to turn her into a Believer.
In other words, this [Conversation] slot was not limited to conversations with the living...
So Elliot placed Elsa's half-dissected corpse and the Bone Flute into the [Conversation] slot together. At last, he saw the Bone Flute's reply on the Difference Engine's brass dial display.
For some unknown reason, though, the Bone Flute seemed half-dead, taking ages to reply even once.
Perhaps different relics simply had different levels of activity.
After some questioning, Elliot finally learned how to use these Cards.
"Good thing I pushed Vanessa up to the second rank earlier. Otherwise, I really wouldn't have been able to use them," Elliot murmured.
When Vanessa had advanced earlier, a prompt had appeared on the Difference Engine:
[You may stabilize the dream with spirituality during Dream Entry.]
Elliot had never understood what that sentence meant.
At the first rank, one could enter dreams with spirituality; at the second rank, one could stabilize them.
He had asked Dorothea and had Vanessa look through reference materials, but neither had