Only the sound of their footsteps sounded against the cavern walls. Rein still fought the occasional urge to smile, even though he was in front of her - just in case. He was overjoyed to have a reason to go through the caves, not to just be travelling through them to complete the motions of a cycle like he had done so many times before.

After trekking down the rocky corridor for some time in complete silence, however, Rein's curiosity began to get the better of him.

I wonder how she made that light anyways. Was it magic? Whatever it is, I should be thankful. It's extremely refreshing to navigate these tunnels when they're lit. Maybe I should thank her for the light too. She didn't seem to get too mad when I thanked her for healing....

"Why are we slowing down?" the woman spoke, breaking his train of thought.

"Huh?" Rein looked over his shoulder at the woman. To his surprise, she wasn't even looking at him. Her attention was focused down towards her wrist again. She pressed at the icons and rearranged the holographic windows that hovered above it.

"I didn't realize that I had," Rein apologized. However, he seized the opportunity to speak again. "But, uh, I guess I was just thinking about how nice it was to walk through the tunnels when they're lit." He continued to look over his shoulder to see if she gave any kind of response.

Much to his delight, his words proved to be enough to pry her gaze away from her wrist device.

"Are you saying you can get through these tunnels in the dark?"

"Yeah," he answered. "I got lost easily the first hundred times, but I managed to memorize all of the corridors."

"I thought you said you had a map?! How do you read a map in the dark?" Her default expression of scorn stretched across her face. "I swear, Rein, if you're lying to me about knowing your way through the caves, I'm gonna..." She reached for her weapon, holstered to her back.

"Wait! No!" he interjected. "It's not like I had paper! I had to chisel it into a flat rock about this big and read it with my fingertips." Rein held out his hands and shaped them into something that looked like a disc the size of his head. "Well, until I accidentally chiseled one of the lines through another line and kept going in circles. Then I had to throw that one away and start a new one, but then that one broke because it was too thin."

"Nevermind," she huffed, rolling her eyes. "Just keep going. Is there somewhere close where I can take a look outside without being seen?"

Rein scratched his head and thought a moment. "There is a path up ahead that leads to an exit near the base of the mountain range. You should be safe to look from there. About four hundred and fifty steps away," he added. The pair continued to walk down the corridor, Rein not even bothering to look where he was going. He instead remained focused on her, continuing to look over his shoulder.

"Good. I need to see what I'm going to be up against if I'm going to have a chance of getting out of here."

Rein squinted his eyes in thought. "You mean get out of the caves?"

"Rein," she sighed, "I don't believe for one second that you don't know what I'm talking about. I've been trying to hack you since you were unconscious."

Rein looked down at the woman's wrist. So that's what she's been doing this whole time?

"I may not have been able to crack you yet, but I do know one thing - you've been here on the island long enough to know exactly where you are."

As she finished her sentence, her voice echoed a bit more than it had before. The two had entered into a more open area of the cave with five more tunnels branching out of it. Rein watched the expression on her face change from annoyance into something much more enraged.

"This room looks awfully familiar," the woman seethed. "We're back to where we started, aren't we," she said, closing her eyes.

"Wow," Rein almost whispered, turning his head to look up at the ceiling. "I didn't know that they were the same at the top too."

"What?"

"The rooms," he pointed at the roof, "they're the same at the top too." He began to walk towards one of the tunnels, straining to see something. "There it is!" he laughed. "Look, it's not the same room as before though." Rein made his way to a wall next to the opening and rubbed his hand over the surface. Chiseled into the rock were three lines, barely visible to the eye. "See? That's another reason I got lost down here for so long. All of the rooms look the same. I started chiseling lines next to the openings so I would know what room I was in."

The woman walked closer to the markings. "Actually," she started, inspecting the room as she walked, "that sort of makes sense. No one on Asylum wanted to be found. How far do these caves go?" she asked.

"They go all over the island pretty much."

"That's one Hell of a place to hide. And if someone were chasing you, it would be a great place to lose them." She continued searching the room, appearing to be impressed with it's design. Suddenly, her focus turned straight towards Rein. "Do you really not remember anything about what happened here? On Asylum?"

Rein was shocked. "If anything happened, it was before I got here. Before you arrived... before things started changing, I was alone. For a very long time." His voice trailed off as he finished. Even though things now weren't ideal, he didn't want to think of things going back the way that they were.

She began to pace back and forth, looking back down at the device on her wrist. "It's looking like hacking you by force isn't going to work, or I wouldn't be asking you this," the woman sighed. She stopped a moment to look at Rein. "And in my experience, when you want to hide information, you bury it so deep that you yourself might not even be able to find it." She paused to look him straight in the eye. "You're hiding something. You may not even know that you are, or what you're hiding, but I know that you are."

The woman took in a deep breath and let it out quickly.

"Rein, will you let me try to find out what you're hiding? Will you let me hack you?"