...They shut down the program for them, afterwards. No one's seen them used since.

[Still, he says that like it's only weak reassurance. Which it is, especially given that their designer's whereabouts are still unknown.

There's not really time to offer anything better, though - by now, the song they were dancing to is fading out, sending the couples all across the dance floor separating or wandering back to the refreshment tables before the next number comes on.]

It's just, that interrupted life here at the school for a lot of us.

[In some cases, literally.]