( Earlier )This still doesn't feel right.
With his two possessions in tow -- the rifle's got to go with him, just in case that door isn't locked any more and he can get back to his people, and that pyramid ball, well, put it this way: he's not as superstitious as most of his teammates, but he's had it with him the whole three weeks and no one's managed to shoot him yet -- he steps out of his room, rubs his eyes. The growling in his stomach tells him he'd better find some food somewhere or else go back on that second week's hey-we're-out-of-everything diet, which is... why they were raiding the store in the first place. First order of business is that frakking door. The words
open, open, open play on repeat in his thoughts the whole way over, but there's no more success with it today than there was last night.
And why, he asks himself, is this particular situation any
more frakked up than watching the whole planet get nuked? It's a question he can't answer.