[ Of course it has a lever. Of course there's an impassible fucking gate. He reaches up to rub his eyes, thumb on one eyelid and index finger on the other. The nature of is brain is that it never fucking stops, and instantly about six worst case scenarios have rolled through it.
They pull the lever, the goddamn floor drops out beneath them. They pull the lever, it triggers something else. They pull the lever and they let something in that this gate was keeping out.
What's the right move? What's the right decision? It's starting to feel just as uncertain a path as the fucking door, except now it's Ian making these calls like he's got any fucking clue. Like he's got any right to assume the path he wants them to take is the correct choice.
If this fucks them both over, he's never gonna forgive himself for it.
After a few tense seconds, he pulls his hand away. His voice sounds a little rusty, a little thick. ]
Well, we're obviously not fucking pulling it while you're in the water.
[ They can rope it or something. Ian made a hundred feet of that in the first twenty minutes they spent here, bundled in with their other supplies for just such an occasion.
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They pull the lever, the goddamn floor drops out beneath them. They pull the lever, it triggers something else. They pull the lever and they let something in that this gate was keeping out.
What's the right move? What's the right decision? It's starting to feel just as uncertain a path as the fucking door, except now it's Ian making these calls like he's got any fucking clue. Like he's got any right to assume the path he wants them to take is the correct choice.
If this fucks them both over, he's never gonna forgive himself for it.
After a few tense seconds, he pulls his hand away. His voice sounds a little rusty, a little thick. ]
Well, we're obviously not fucking pulling it while you're in the water.
[ They can rope it or something. Ian made a hundred feet of that in the first twenty minutes they spent here, bundled in with their other supplies for just such an occasion.
Lowly, more to himself: ]
I fucking hate this place.