by BrainWalker » Mon Jul 27, 2009 12:10 am
"Woah." This is definitely not what Max was expecting. When he imagined unformatted territory, he was thinking 'formless,' not... 'undeveloped.' He expected a vast expanse of stark white nothingness, not natural beauty. Once the shock wears off, it gives way to pleasant surprise.
Curious, Max turns around to see the door everyone just came out of... and that all he sees. No building, no big wall expanding on to infinity, just that big heavy bulkhead door, it's doorway, and the hallway beyond, which they just exited. It doesn't make any sense and yet there it is. Incredible. So incredible that the only sensible course of action is to document it with a snapshot.
Max marvels over the door, standing on its own, unsupported on a dirt path in the middle of nowhere. It takes him a second to register what Enzo had said.
"... what? Oh, yeah, right. Good idea! Umm..." Max looks up the path ahead, and then steps off the path to look down it, behind the door. He thinks for a moment, then turns to face his sister. "Okay, Emmy, let's get a better look at this place. Four eyes are better than two!" His boosters kick in, and Max ascends a couple dozen feet, where he hovers and peers up the path ahead. He slowly rotates, taking in the full 360° panorama, keeping his eyes carefully peeled for anything that might resemble a kid, or at least something that might be distracting enough to lure a kid off the only discernible path through the wilderness.