I was late for dinner and nothing was being served in the cafeteria. I kept passing by someone but was unable to talk to them. The cup of coffee in my hand would never fill up. I figured that this was why I didn’t do things until I was sure about how it worked.

My brother had just finished playing a game and suggested that since I was here, we could play some Path of Exile. I hadn’t touched the game in a while and neither had he; I told him that we “didn’t have to”, and we left it at that. I sat down on the carpeted ground against the bed and next to the desktop tower. I was facing the wall but I could hear that there were quite a few other people in the room talking very loudly. I asked the person in front of me if they wanted to talk somewhere else to which they agreed and we walked out. There were now four of us walking out of the front door.