“People keep saying that. I kinda hope they’re right… But I dunno, she was grabbed by the man in the hat and I dunno if anyone can get away once he gets them.” He responded with an uncertain frown, remembering the glitching, jumping shadow of his friend that had been left behind after she’d been taken. Here would be so much better than there…

Now the question from Ignis? That brightens the atmosphere quite a bit. This was something that he knew that someone else didn’t? He could actually show Ignis pretty easily, after all. He was pretty sure he remembered how to play from when Arkady had shown him.

Grabbing a stray stick and walking over to a bare patch of dirt, he began excitedly drawing out squares and putting numbers in them. “So, um…” He started off a little clumsily, “We have these squares with numbers, and… Oh! We need to find a rock too.” He said, dropping the stick and hurrying over to the water’s edge to find a nice stone.