[ This isn't the first time Claude's asked this. Like all the other times, he also doesn't really expect Kyle to have an answer; it's not like either of them asked to be trapped in some hallway. Or it'd seemed like just a hallway at first when Claude wandered it by himself, trailing a hand along the stone walls next to him for guidance until it'd turned a corner and he remembered: this is the Horizon, he could do something about there not being any light.
The torches he's created seem to be unreliable, and as he and Kyle stand at a junction with multiple ways to go the one in his hand currently chooses right now to go out. Because of course it does. With a small huff of aggravation Claude taps the torch's base and it flares to life again. His hopes are low on how long this one lasts but he sets that aside to hold it aloft and peer down each potential path.
He's not normally impatient, not outwardly at any rate. Everything going on both in 'real life' and the Horizon, though - it's taken a slight toll on him. In the end, Claude looks to Kyle then tilts his head to the left. ]
Let's try this one first. If it's another dead end, at least we can come back here and regroup.
[ Claude leads the way, but he should've learned from the other things they've encountered prior to now: they don't make it more than a few steps in before a chasm yawns open in the floor, the torchlight making it visible right before imminent disaster. Without thinking about it he grabs Kyle's arm with his free hand to keep the other man from continuing on if it went unnoticed. ]
— kyle
[ This isn't the first time Claude's asked this. Like all the other times, he also doesn't really expect Kyle to have an answer; it's not like either of them asked to be trapped in some hallway. Or it'd seemed like just a hallway at first when Claude wandered it by himself, trailing a hand along the stone walls next to him for guidance until it'd turned a corner and he remembered: this is the Horizon, he could do something about there not being any light.
The torches he's created seem to be unreliable, and as he and Kyle stand at a junction with multiple ways to go the one in his hand currently chooses right now to go out. Because of course it does. With a small huff of aggravation Claude taps the torch's base and it flares to life again. His hopes are low on how long this one lasts but he sets that aside to hold it aloft and peer down each potential path.
He's not normally impatient, not outwardly at any rate. Everything going on both in 'real life' and the Horizon, though - it's taken a slight toll on him. In the end, Claude looks to Kyle then tilts his head to the left. ]
Let's try this one first. If it's another dead end, at least we can come back here and regroup.
[ Claude leads the way, but he should've learned from the other things they've encountered prior to now: they don't make it more than a few steps in before a chasm yawns open in the floor, the torchlight making it visible right before imminent disaster. Without thinking about it he grabs Kyle's arm with his free hand to keep the other man from continuing on if it went unnoticed. ]