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"We want to get out as much as you do," Shane said. "It's just that it might not be possible. Jack's toldus where we are. We're floating in some void surrounded by nothing.""Yeah," Jack said."...and if whoever built this place went to all that trouble to put us here, I don't think we're gonna be ableto get out so easily. Face it: we don't even know where to escape to. If we want to get home – which Ithink we all do – then bashing through floors isn't going to get us there.Paul looked sadly at his broccoli. Then he ate it."We've got to get back the same way we got here," Alex said. "Use the same kind of mechanism.""How?" Julian asked."I don't know."Griffin finished eating; he got up and patted Jack on the shoulder as he left. "See you later, Jack."Jack jerked away from his touch and glared at him. Griffin smiled and went off."...What's up with you two?" Shane asked.Jack stabbed his potato. "Nothing.""Yeah, right," Johnny said."Shut up."**They wandered back into the common room after lunch. Alex declared that Jesse and Ted had hadenough TV and if they could get off the sofa please. Ted went off next door to bug Neo; Jesse sat downon the floor and looked TV-deprived."So now we wait?" Jjaks asked.Conor found a pack of cards lying on one of the shelves. He picked it up and gazed thoughtfully at it.He looked up at the others. "How much money do you all have with you?""Why?" Shane asked.Conor held up the pack of cards. "Poker. Who's in?"Some wanted to be alone and took a room for themselves that night. Others took comfort in beingaround others in the same situation as them; and in a strange new universe full of unknown threats, itwas always good to have company.Alex looked up as the door opened and Paul peeked in."Mind if I bunk in here?""Go ahead.""Thanks."****The night turned to morning and another day passed. New people arrived on the fourth floor, and theyall took it in different ways. Some – notably a certain dentist named Perry Lyman – seemed completelyfine with everything and acted as though this sort of thing happened every day; a couple or so did notstay for introductions, turning pale upon first contact and stumbling out of the corridor only to bediscovered hours later majorly drunk at Kenselton Hotel's most excellent bar, by which time they hadmore or less been rendered incapable of protesting when floormates helped them back to the fourth.