The shadow needn't have worried. There was indeed a busy signal on the Doctor's line. Edgeworth's downcast eyes shot up toward his companion, saying as much without words, and he pulled the phone away from his ear and pushed the off button.

"If it's the community's doing, it's not letting me through either. Or perhaps he's actually unavailable, difficult as that is to believe." Brows furrowing, he darted a look down the street. "It seems the Corinthian may be your only option. Unless you'd prefer me to post a request on the community for you?" As he said it he was pulling up the phone's browser, already composing in his mind the call for help he'd be posting in place of the shadow's world-hop request.