"That's promising," he says with a roll of his eyes. "Someone, sometime might get to it. That it's not a priority just keeps adding to how fun this whole thing is."

And in many ways, it is fun to him. Right until dealing with his feelings on trains, and now being made to think he was trapped. How much of it was real and how much had been in his head then?

"I think maybe they bring some of their troubles on themselves too," he points out. How could he believe that given they brought him here. He's still working out how he feels about it all, and handling being this much around others. If they had him here, what else had they messed with. "How long you been with all of this?"