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Liam opened his eyes.

He sat upright, resting his palms on the grassy surface beneath him.

He felt he was used to it now, passing out due to exhaustion in the middle of his trips.

He groaned, arms and legs aching. Especially the one that broke last year.

'I don't think that healed the right way.' He gently rested his right hand on it.

He blinked the sleepiness from his eyes, looking around his boring, dull surroundings.

He's lucky it wasn't raining.

He exhaled, and began to stand, swaying ever so slightly when on his two feet.

He had fallen into a routine of sorts.

Wake up, chop wood for the fire in the morning, take a break, and then spend hours in the cave with that laptop.

He needed someone to talk to, but ever since he decided to plug the laptop into the, computer mechanism Airy used, Texty had been MIA for a while.

A long while.

Liam had also made several attempts to talk into the microphone to the contestants, but he never got any responses.

Oh, how he longed for the sounds of another's voice.

He knew he wouldn't get that.

Reluctantly, he walked away from his current spot, wandering towards the decaying stump with an axe lodged in it.

Ding.

Liam tensed up, his sense of hearing seeming to increase.

Ding.

"Hello?" Liam looked around frantically, shuffling his feet quickly as he turned in several directions.

HOOOOONK.

..wait.

Liam's eyes widened, as he directed his vision towards the cave.

'Was that an airhorn?' He took a step forward.

As soon as he did so, he sprinted forwards, almost tripping every couple of steps.

He outstretched his arms, pushing away the vines at the opening of the cave.

"Texty?" Liam gasped out, panting heavily.

The text-to-speech voice echoed throughout the small cave, in its somewhat monotonous tone.

"Liam, I did it. I can send us home."

Liam felt this, this prickling in his eyes.

"I also managed to send everyone else back to their respective homes, so don't worry about them."

He staggered over to the laptop, leaning on the desk as he looked down at it in disbelief.

"Texty, this.. You're serious right? I'm not.. I'm not hallucinating, right..?"

The laptop opened a blank document and typed a '🤷' emoji into it.

Liam couldn't help himself as he smiled.

"Liam, I'm gonna have to use that kill code again, are you fine with going through with it?"

Liam laughed quietly, however, you could hear the strain in his voice.

"Of course. I don't want to be in this hell hole anymore."

With the affirmation needed, Texty began to count down.