Jay's head jerks up, back ramrod straight. He can feel the blood rushing in his ears, feel the prickle of adrenaline across his skin.
"What?" He's looking right at Tim. He has to watch him--has to see. "How do you--how do you know?"
Tim's a good liar, Jay knows. But the look on his face--the look in his eyes--the fucking...almost-panic he can hear in his voice, it sounds real. Tim's a good liar, but his lies are quiet. They're lies of omission. They're 'I don't know,' they're 'Don't think about that.' They're redirections--and this, sure, fine, this could be a redirection. This could be Tim pulling the strings, could be Tim trying to keep the camera off, could be Tim trying to pull Jay down with him, to get him to forget again.
But it doesn't look like that.
It looks like the hospital, like Tim's insistence that there was something Jay still needed to see.
And, god, when he thinks about it, it makes sense. They're nowhere near Rosswood. Hell, they might not even be on Earth. They might not even be in the same dimension, and what was it that guy said?
"But if your concern is something from your home world... you are far from that now. Only individuals find their way here, so you needn't be concerned if you were worried about... well, something like that. It's very unlikely they're also here."
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Jay's head jerks up, back ramrod straight. He can feel the blood rushing in his ears, feel the prickle of adrenaline across his skin.
"What?" He's looking right at Tim. He has to watch him--has to see. "How do you--how do you know?"
Tim's a good liar, Jay knows. But the look on his face--the look in his eyes--the fucking...almost-panic he can hear in his voice, it sounds real. Tim's a good liar, but his lies are quiet. They're lies of omission. They're 'I don't know,' they're 'Don't think about that.' They're redirections--and this, sure, fine, this could be a redirection. This could be Tim pulling the strings, could be Tim trying to keep the camera off, could be Tim trying to pull Jay down with him, to get him to forget again.
But it doesn't look like that.
It looks like the hospital, like Tim's insistence that there was something Jay still needed to see.
And, god, when he thinks about it, it makes sense. They're nowhere near Rosswood. Hell, they might not even be on Earth. They might not even be in the same dimension, and what was it that guy said?
It's not here.
It's not here.