“That would explain a lot…” Kate mumbled after Simon explained his experiences in the nearby hallways. Unfortunately, she had no idea what part of the school could be responsible for all the strange occurrences. She felt a bit bad about expecting Simon to have any leads when she herself was completely clueless. 

At that time, Daniel, too, wiped the tears from his eyes, recollected himself and nodded in acknowledgement of Jonathan’s apology, mumbling what sounded like an exasperated “S’alright” as he pulled himself to his feet. Once the hysteria from the recent incident died down and Daniel could re-focus on reality, he also joined in on Simon and Kate’s conversation. “Well…” he spoke up. “As much as reality-warping hallways would ordinarily be a giant red flag that says we should probably do some investigating, we’ve already established that we have no idea how to proceed, so we’ll have to look elsewhere.” He started to explain, pacing around a bit with his British accent still slightly present. “That said, it would seem that the only real option would be to go after whichever next person or group seems the most likely to be involved here, see what information we can gather, and move on from there until we can figure out how to follow those three shady characters into wherever they hid themselves in there.” He continued, pointing at the nearby building. “Which… also sounds a bit like a video game. Kind of ridiculous, but we’ll take all the hints we can get. So following that logic it would make sense to say that if we can’t go down one path yet, it’s because there’s a quest we haven’t completed and consequently important information we haven’t found yet, etc etc, in which case we’ll just have to work with what we [i]do[/i] know to figure out the next best path to go down, until that other path is available. And if the principal’s office is the only important location we currently know how to get to, then I say, yes, we’ll start there.” He agreed once he finished rambling. “If that fails and we reach a dead end, we could try looking through everything we got from Brokkon to see if there are any hints there – check for flags we missed, so to speak…” he continued, before his eyes landed on Kate again. Sure, he’d half-acknowledged her earlier, but his mind was in so many different places he didn’t think much of it. After blinking a few times to ensure she was really there and he hadn’t fallen to a new level of insane, he turned to Simon. “When did she get here?”