[ definitely strange, and worth further investigation. what else could be lying outside the walls of the colony? they had probably only just scratched the surface of the real mystery here.

looking thoughtful, dipper nods. ] And we don't exactly have a safe way to share it. You know, away from prying eyes. And ears. [ just like he had discussed with yu. dipper would never really feel comfortable sharing information unless he could encrypt it. that was easy enough to do for himself, but how to communicate it to others without using sight or sound? ]

There's...probably a lot of clues out there, but we don't know who has them. [ and in a case like this, what they could stand to gain by sharing information just may outweigh the risk of trust he'd have to take. ]