Donnie waved off the response as he came closer to inspect the space, pointing at a spot before he set the staff piece there. He lifted it again, frowning to himself.
"An energy reading. It's roughly the size of this segment. I found one back in my room where this had been, different position, same amount of energy. Whoever moved it was doing some very precise targeting, but that would mean knowing what they were aiming for and where it was. And be just as precise in where they'd set it, because there's no...excess trail indicating any other movement. It's just...gone from one spot and here the next."
He brought up his holoscreen off of his bracer computer, tapping through things before he sent over screencaps of the readings from his goggles to give Tony visuals of what they'd picked up. There were a couple of the segment itself and its readings, and then images of the silhouette of the staff segment glowing in indication of the readings, from presumably the place in his room aside from the worktable. The number levels between the images didn't seem to differ too much between them, the latter only slightly lower. They however matched the levels with the corresponding staff segment images.
"It's deteriorating, that's the only reason the levels are different, but given the numbers matched up between what I read from my room and the staff then, and the staff and this spot now, they are all very consistent, so this happened instantaneously. Who all's twiddling their thumbs around here and has that kind of control?"
It was an honest question, since Tony seemed to know a lot about the people around and the abilities they had. He'd already named several, so it had to be one of them maybe...? But that still left reasons unanswered.
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"An energy reading. It's roughly the size of this segment. I found one back in my room where this had been, different position, same amount of energy. Whoever moved it was doing some very precise targeting, but that would mean knowing what they were aiming for and where it was. And be just as precise in where they'd set it, because there's no...excess trail indicating any other movement. It's just...gone from one spot and here the next."
He brought up his holoscreen off of his bracer computer, tapping through things before he sent over screencaps of the readings from his goggles to give Tony visuals of what they'd picked up. There were a couple of the segment itself and its readings, and then images of the silhouette of the staff segment glowing in indication of the readings, from presumably the place in his room aside from the worktable. The number levels between the images didn't seem to differ too much between them, the latter only slightly lower. They however matched the levels with the corresponding staff segment images.
"It's deteriorating, that's the only reason the levels are different, but given the numbers matched up between what I read from my room and the staff then, and the staff and this spot now, they are all very consistent, so this happened instantaneously. Who all's twiddling their thumbs around here and has that kind of control?"
It was an honest question, since Tony seemed to know a lot about the people around and the abilities they had. He'd already named several, so it had to be one of them maybe...? But that still left reasons unanswered.