"You've lost me," Mingyu informed softly, smiling as he felt them falling into an old pattern. Fox lived so much in his own mind, it often caught him off guard to remember that others did not live there too and had to be taken for the entire journey between his leaps of logic. It was something of which Mingyu had always been immensely fond, and in spite of the situation it eased some of the tension in him now.

"I wasn't aware we were boxed into two singular paths, to start. And we're surviving this," he added, giving Fox an affirming squeeze. "Or no one is."

Was it a joke?

Well, Mingyu was smiling as he said it at least.