[ there's no immediate protest from brad, mind working at catching up and simultaneously running through tactical scenarios. he's operating with very limited information here. ]

We were charting. Thomas talked about the Glade, [ and not knowing his own birthday, but he's not disclosing that ] nothing irregular until our attempts to check in started to fail. I don't remember anything after that.

[ a beat. ] We can't leave him here. [ with a nod to ray. even if ray might not be real, it's still — ray.

no, it isn't, and maybe that was a nonsensical thing to say, but he still felt the need to point it out. ]