It was the right sort of question because Malcolm's fractured mind functioned best when it had a puzzle to distract it.
"Besides 'in a lighthouse', I assume," he joked weakly.
God his head hurt, but his thinking cap was his most comfortable one, so he put it on anyway.
"This lighthouse... they could have made it findable - like the 'new' parts of the town you told me about - and then... just waited for someone to find it. They wanted us to see that," he explained, pointing outside. "They wanted us to see that, specifically. You and me. And what did it show us, exactly? That there's nowhere to go. The town and its neat borders: the forest, the sea, the rocks.... This is psychological warfare. It has been since the start, but they want to make us, in particular, feel trapped. Which means there's an advantage to them if we give up looking for escape or answers." A pause and he leveled his gaze - intense, despite circles under his eyes and a greyness to his pallor - to meet Raylan's eyes. "Which means there's an advantage to us if we don't."
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"Besides 'in a lighthouse', I assume," he joked weakly.
God his head hurt, but his thinking cap was his most comfortable one, so he put it on anyway.
"This lighthouse... they could have made it findable - like the 'new' parts of the town you told me about - and then... just waited for someone to find it. They wanted us to see that," he explained, pointing outside. "They wanted us to see that, specifically. You and me. And what did it show us, exactly? That there's nowhere to go. The town and its neat borders: the forest, the sea, the rocks.... This is psychological warfare. It has been since the start, but they want to make us, in particular, feel trapped. Which means there's an advantage to them if we give up looking for escape or answers." A pause and he leveled his gaze - intense, despite circles under his eyes and a greyness to his pallor - to meet Raylan's eyes. "Which means there's an advantage to us if we don't."