Infinity(4)

“Look, haven’t you ever discovered that we are actually living in a circle, both temporal and spatial? Haven’t you noticed that whatever serves as a mark will be useless, only to tell you that you have been this place before? And even if you are running about like a chicken with its head cut off, you’ll find your dwelling after 3 or 5 days. That’s the evidence!”
That’s probably true. Once Alex took a wrong turn and got lost in the mountains. About ten days later, he found his marks and returned back to his little cabin built of logs, a rude one constructed for himself in case of necessity.
Apparently it wasn’t a circle in the traditional meaning. A circle is something that if you keep in a straight line, you’ll be at the original spot. Like walking on a ring. But here if you go erratically, the result is the same.
“Why escaped?”
“I am afraid you’ll kill me. I saw the gun. ”
“I won’t. Then what do you think we shall do?”
“We’re not ready to disarm ourselves in order to make it easier for them to kill us. Set off in quest of other survivors as soon as possible. We should make an alliance against the common enemy.”
On the way home, they exchanged their conditions. Lockie lived in a cozy cave above the mountain, luring rabbits or foxes into a trap for a living. He used to be an adventurer who looks for buried treasure, enduring tremendous danger, but now doing the same thing as Alex.