Backdated to discovery of THE MAZE

[hyperthermic]

n e 1 else curious whats on the other side of that maze ?

thinking about taking some supplies and finding out.

wouldnt mind another set of eyes.

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[hyperthermic]

vanishing point is mostly stone.

might have carpet in the ranking officials rooms

wouldnt know, they never brought me there

[hypothermic]

More Brutalism. Typical. The only aesthetic that screams 'try-hard asshole' louder is modern Victoriana.

So where did they keep you, a kennel?

[hyperthermic]

slept on my ship most of the time, but when i went back to the vanishing point they had barracks rooms for their agents

close to a kennel

[ It's weird talking about this. Just talking about it. He's taken it as normal for so long that saying anything about it to someone on the outside feels in itself like breaking a rule. ]

better than a forest floor

[hypothermic]

[It's weirder to hear about it. For Mick, a man he's known all his life, to have lived another lifetime somewhere else.

As someone else.

Without him.]

We've given people worse dirt-naps. Could've been an ocean floor.

[hyperthermic]

[ We, Snart says. We. ]

u miss it?

[hypothermic]

Miss what?

[Len knows exactly 'what' Mick means.

What Len doesn't know is if Mick honestly wants the answer to his question, or more ammunition to hurt him.

Who is the man on the other end of the device? Mick? Chronos? Both? Neither?]

voice;

[hyperthermic]

[ For a while Mick doesn't respond, but not because he doesn't plan to. He just isn't sure how. It hurts, that reply, it cuts deep, and he tries to cauterize the injury with the heat of anger, but it doesn't take.

Finally, finally: ]

Sometimes I didn't hate you.

voice;

[hypothermic]

I've never hated you, Mick.

[hyperthermic]

Mick....

[ A small, soft noise that could be irony or amusement or both. ]

For the first few months, before they found me, I thought I heard you saying that name so many times.

[hypothermic]

It wasn't supposed to go down that way.

I know you don't believe me, but it's the truth. I ain't lying.

I've left you before, Mick. And I did it face to face.