He's reading his textbook. "Okay."

"...what's okay?"

"I assume we are here now?"

"Oh, yeah." He drives into the garage and opens the door for Epic. "Please don't make me regret not knocking you out?"

"I don't really know what actions would make you regret that!" He gets out of the car.

"Running away, wrecking the place, hurting anyone..."

It's an ordinary garage and he leads Epic to an ordinary elevator and presses its ordinary button.

"I won't hurt people."

"I said three things."

"It is not totally inconceivable I'd see fit to run away."

"Why are you cooperating?" he wonders.

"You might have something interesting to say."

"...okay."

The ordinary elevator arrives. He nudges Epic inside.

He goes in.

It goes up.

"...so you knew the government was a dictatorship and you still...?"

"- yeah? What was I supposed to do, overthrow it without a plan to do better?"

"Try to find a resistance, then? Or did you think there wasn't one?"

"Rebels couldn't let me rebuild São Paulo and I really want to."

"...you need their permission?"

"If I did it without permission no one would actually get to live there which kinda defeats the point."

"Guess so." They go up to an arbitrary floor and the kidnapper walks them into an arbitrary apartment and there is a patch of light on one of the walls. "Touch that."

He does.

And he finds himself in another room altogether. It has a bed and a desk and a mirror and two closed doors and is not extremely spacious.

Did his escort come through also?

Nope! He's all alone in there.

He tries the doors.