Sophia instantly followed Tim into the kitchen, stepping toward the tunnel to inspect it as he took his medicine. As he spoke Sophia felt her face flush red and knew she had been foolish for having even suggested such a thing in the first place. Besides, in books and games bad things tended to happen when you went into strange, unknown places by yourself. Not that something bad couldn't happen with two people as well.

As Tim came to stand beside Sophia to inspect the hole she slipped her hand into his again, this time without really thinking of it as it had been more of an instinctive search for a sign of comfort. The hole freaked her out too, though perhaps not as badly as it did Tim. "I'm... not sure," she slowly answered. Thinking about it a bit more she asked more than said, "Maybe? I mean, everything turned out alright last time. Things were... weird, but they weren't... They weren't [i]bad[/i]. Just [i]different[/i]. Kinda... Kinda like a mirror! Everything looks the same, but you know it's not the same. Besides, maybe if we can understand it we won't have to be so scared. The main reason people are scared of things is that they don't understand it."

Sophia was beginning to feel a bit more confident now, honestly feeling that if she and Tim understood what was happening they wouldn't have to worry so much. Still she added, "But if you don't want to go in, Tim, we won't. We'll go to my apartment, spend the day there, and come back later. Surely the tunnel will be gone. It [i]can't[/i] just sit there all day."