[ The dark doesn't bother Daniel anymore. When he'd started out in the corn maze it had just been for fun, wandering slowly through it in the last rays of the sleepy late afternoon sun, remembering being a teenager in fall. And then the sun set completely, and the shadows loomed huge, and the maze became inscrutable to him, strange and endless. Daniel, who has the mind of a puzzler, is kind of enjoying it. ]
Can't be anything except lost; it's like the house in here.
[ He's been testing it, measuring his steps, recording his turns, listening to the sound of the animal in the distance and the occasional register of a heartbeat, trying to find landmarks. But like the navigators found in the manor's shifting corridors, it's moving around him, impossible to 'solve'. So he's back to just wandering, hands tucked deep in the pockets of his leather jacket.
He rocks back and forward on his feet, looking at Matt and his magic light. Hard to know what to do here: there's a reason why he texted most of the other people in his life about the brand new development rather than approaching them directly. If he's honest with himself, and it's much harder to be anything else these days, there's a reason why he didn't text Matt. ]
Hey, so, uh... recovered from. That stuff?
[ Getting stabbed, going to hospital, he mostly has these details third hand, a combination of Koby's sparse updates and what was on the network, though the latter he'd decided not to engage with to remove the possibility of Matt embarrassing himself. ]
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Can't be anything except lost; it's like the house in here.
[ He's been testing it, measuring his steps, recording his turns, listening to the sound of the animal in the distance and the occasional register of a heartbeat, trying to find landmarks. But like the navigators found in the manor's shifting corridors, it's moving around him, impossible to 'solve'. So he's back to just wandering, hands tucked deep in the pockets of his leather jacket.
He rocks back and forward on his feet, looking at Matt and his magic light. Hard to know what to do here: there's a reason why he texted most of the other people in his life about the brand new development rather than approaching them directly. If he's honest with himself, and it's much harder to be anything else these days, there's a reason why he didn't text Matt. ]
Hey, so, uh... recovered from. That stuff?
[ Getting stabbed, going to hospital, he mostly has these details third hand, a combination of Koby's sparse updates and what was on the network, though the latter he'd decided not to engage with to remove the possibility of Matt embarrassing himself. ]