Shen Qingqiu nods. He pulls out his notebook, and the map he'd started to make with Yuri. ¹ "We were actually trying to determine whether there was any pattern to the changes," he says, "but haven't had any luck so far, except that it feels almost—" he remembers the walls seeming to laugh at him, after his disorienting almost-exorcism and return to adult form. "—malicious. In contrast to the suggestibility of the kitchens and libraries, which seem more helpful."

¹ In a thread that's still happening right now, but shhh.