[A message from the Network startles him, particularly since his designated Network-notepad isn't near him just now.

Not wanting to respond to the Number through his glasses, it's a minute's worth of fumbling before he has the pad safely in hand and can respond.]

There was an Echo. I don't-

[Which to put first? Deep breath:]

I talked someone out of killing themselves. A stranger. Webmind had, too.

[The reason for the Echo, that seems a safe enough place to start - and Walter almost laughs at the notion of any of this being safe.]