"Ow," she says. "Okay, yeah, killing the rabbits makes sense."

Elleira nods.

And then they come across the huge lake that they stayed at before. Somehow, the side they were on before (with the small rock and the campfire and such) is on the side that they're now on, despite it being the opposite side of the lake from the buildings, whereas before it was on the same side as the buildings.

Maya, obviously, does not notice this because she hasn't been here before.

Thario shakes his head a bit and keeps walking.

This place. It is ridiculous.

And then: they find the small Tyler-made lake. "I wonder if he's gonna pop up again," says Thario.

"Missing context," says Maya, rolling her eyes.

"I used to have another companion, acquired after Thario but before Blue. He could manipulate water, and created this lake breaking us out of a room we were trapped in. He vanished a while before you appeared."

"Ah," she says.

Then her aura finally returns to blue.

Thario shrugs and continues walking.

Blue does likewise.

He seems somewhat pensive.

Everybody's walking. Is that building getting closer?

… Yes? It's definitely closer than it was when they got out of the tunnel, but it seems to move closer in staggered increments.

Typical.

Well it's not like this place can just be normal, is it? It's set up all these expectations of being extremely bizarre and to turn around and be normal now would just be weird.

You know, like that time at the lake when it was mostly normal survival by a weird lake with a hydrokinetic who liked playing around with fish and cephalopods.

That kind of weird normal.

...She hates this place.

This place doesn't express any obvious opinions back at her, but she might like to note that her lightning pain continues, although it definitely does continue to reduce in how painful it seems.

The buildings: suddenly get quite a lot closer when they go under a tree and they're blocked from sight. As in, a few hundred meters away.

"… Nearly there, apparently," says Maya.

"Yes, just make sure not to lose sight of it."

"So far it's been getting closer, at least?" she shrugs.

"No telling when or if that might change."

"Yeah, I guess," she says, but then soon enough they're past a few more trees and there is, in front of them: a building!

Thario looks around a bit, and seeing nothing he immediately recognizes (unless 'buildings of various colors that are mostly not distinctive in any way from this angle' counts, which it really probably doesn't), he asks, "So where should we try first? Look for the wood cabin and start there again?"

"I don't think a systematic search has any real advantage here. Might as well start with what's close."

"Okay," he says, and so, seeing no doors on this side of the buildings, he walks over to the nearest alleyway between two of them and goes over to the main street.