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𝚐𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚟𝚎 ([personal profile] deprime) wrote in [community profile] pixieledmemes 2025-05-18 07:09 pm (UTC)

At that he laughs.

"Good to know you haven't changed," he comments, catching up to where she was with a few quick steps. "So uh, how exactly am I supposed to help. It's not like I build this thing," and he shakes a branch of the hedge. A few turns back, he'd tried to look through them just to see if he could see through to the other side, but there had been nothing. It was actually unsettling.

Gustave lets go as if burned, just in case. Can't be too careful.

"Did you pick left or right?" He glanced at the fork in the path and then back to her. "For the wall. I picked right but I hit a lot of dead ends."

If she wanted to focus on getting out, and it was probably the smarter thing to do anyway, he could do that. Whether she believed he was real or not was a problem they could tackle later, assuming she didn't try to fry him with a bolt of lightning to test a theory.

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