Throughout the conversation Bran's phone is hyperactively ringing, beeping, and vibrating.  Texts, phone calls and voicemails flood onto it.  A distant police siren is almost certainly utterly unrelated but it adds to a faint sense of urgency.<br/><br/>The rain starts up again slowly and people hurry a little more, all with somewhere they have to get to.  The a capella singers down the road launch into a new song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RT3cx1b9ZM).  A young mother with a cigarette hanging from her mouth shouts at her toddler.  Two strolling police officers, male and female, look around with casual disinterest.  Life goes on, in short.