[ He can manage it. The facility had been nothing but staircases, too, and those had been vastly worse: hot and loud and hurried, with the knowledge that danger might be upon them at any moment. Here, they have the grace of a cool and quiet house.
He still feels as though they are rabbits just barely into their warren, surrounded by wolves. Snakes, possibly. He doesn't know whether the zealots might be able to find and retrieve them from indoors; he does not know what they're up against.
He'd not realized how much he'd come to feel safe here. ]
Though we'll see how I might be swayed by a few more months like this one.
[ He did not mean it to sound so bleak, but the tone is clear: this feels like a cycle starting up again. It feels very much like Deerington. ]
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[ He can manage it. The facility had been nothing but staircases, too, and those had been vastly worse: hot and loud and hurried, with the knowledge that danger might be upon them at any moment. Here, they have the grace of a cool and quiet house.
He still feels as though they are rabbits just barely into their warren, surrounded by wolves. Snakes, possibly. He doesn't know whether the zealots might be able to find and retrieve them from indoors; he does not know what they're up against.
He'd not realized how much he'd come to feel safe here. ]
Though we'll see how I might be swayed by a few more months like this one.
[ He did not mean it to sound so bleak, but the tone is clear: this feels like a cycle starting up again. It feels very much like Deerington. ]