Got pushed up against time to go to work today, but got a very small amount of writing done. It sets up what will be a very important chapter, and the goal of this whole project isn't the amount I get done each day, but to make sure at least some writing is accomplished each day anyway :-)
Chapter 3
Mick felt like the women in THE DESCENT must have felt when they figured out that Juno had brought them to an unmapped cave system. Looking across the expanse of corridors that seemed to make up the inner life of Julie, he felt lost. If for no other reason than the inside was as startlingly empty as the outside. Mick wasn’t sure what to make of all that was going on, but one thing was sure. A lifeless body in his apartment could not help him in whatever he was supposed to accomplish.
But without Julie home, that’s exactly the situation he faced. So logically she must be in here somewhere. There might be a fallacy in his reasoning, but he could not handle being responsible for extinguishing his friend right now, so he didn’t look for holes in his supposition. He just clung to it like a life line.
Mick had always believed that the best way to keep yourself from freezing when you didn’t know what the hell to do was to do something, anything. Make a decision, act, and keep doing so until a solution presented itself. And so looking down a vast expanse of seemingly empty choices, he picked a hallway and started walking.
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