[ It's embarrassing, the way Jon lights up in response to that smile. He hasn't seen Martin smile like that— smile any way other than distant and bitter— in... months? Many months? He can't remember the last time.

Does this mean Peter is doing something to him? That getting him away from Peter's influence— it's bringing him back into himself, somehow, keeping the Lonely at bay? Or does this place simply make it feel distant, the way the weight of the Eye is now muted?

The questions itch at him. Wanting to know itches at him. Jon fights to focus on investigating the mysterious forest town instead. ]

Right. Right. [ He scans their surroundings for anything that might be trying to kill them. It is genuinely eerie that nothing immediately occurs. ] The danger is usually a bit more... overt than this. [ The Web, maybe?? His bet is now on the Web; no other power seems terribly skilled in subtlety. ] I'd be less surprised if this place were a horrible maze.

[ But it looks... fairly normal. Trees, townhomes, and not even eerily-identical ones. It just looks like a town.

The neighborhood they've woken up in is, of course, the one named Blackwood Run. ]