[indent] [/indent][h3][hr][color=SandyBrown]Pebbles “Pebs” Meyers[/color][/h3][hr][sup][@Alamantus][@Vertigo][/sup][indent] [/indent]
[color=SandyBrown]“Yes! Nice!”[/color] Pebs said, grinning and raising a hand to high-five Duncan. A humming noise to her right, though, distracted her, and she looked over in time to catch the wall disappear before her eyes. 

[color=SandyBrown]“O-okay, did that wall just disappear, or is it just me?”[/color] Pebs asked, laughing nervously. After a beat, though, she approached the new entrance slowly, looking between the other three paths. Upon seeing the doorway to the right, though, she frowned, brows furrowing as she jogged over to peek her head in. The room through the doorway looked strangely familiar, almost like—

She took a step back, stunned, then took a few more [color=SandyBrown]“H-how?”[/color] The sinking feeling in her gut bordered on nausea. [color=SandyBrown]“How is this room here? Didn’t… didn’t the maze take us away from this room?”[/color]

Her head snapped up as she looked around again, then down as she reopened the map that they’d been using, thoughts whirling. [color=SandyBrown]“W-what is this?”[/color] she asked, not registering her trembling hands. [color=SandyBrown]“I-I don’t understand. If that’s where we came in from,”[/color] she said, pointing at the new room, the old room, the room with the plant and radio and way back to the start, [color=SandyBrown]“and… and that’s where we just came from,”[/color] she said, pointing at the room with the obstacle course, which led directly away from them, away from the room that it should have connected to, [color=SandyBrown]“then… then…”[/color]

Then… how did that make sense? It made no sense. The maze was supposed to lead them somewhere, not back where they started. The wall wasn’t supposed to just disappear, and a room they’d headed away from wasn’t supposed to connect to the room they’d arrived at, wasn’t supposed to just grow a new hallway after appearing out of thin air. 

[color=SandyBrown]“This… this is impossible, right?”[/color] she asked, looking to Duncan, her eyes stinging. [color=SandyBrown]“Everything… everything made sense up until now. Not completely, but it made sense. We got kidnapped, and some... [i]twisted [/i]person wanted us to go through this maze, but this…”[/color]

She grasped for words, but she couldn’t find any. This was impossible, but here she was, looking at the impossible. The maze led right back to where they’d started. Who was to say, then, that they’d ever get out at all?