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“Dang it, I think I got turned around…” Skizz muttered to himself as he looked behind him. Unfortunately, within the walls like this, everything looked pretty much the same. He sighed and decided to continue on forward.
This was why he hadn’t ventured into the walls until now. It was easy to get lost in such a big building, and the college dorms were definitely big . But Skizz was bored because Impulse decided to take a few extra classes this semester. And Skizz could only take so much monotone lecturing. So he had decided against going with Impulse today. But that meant he needed to find himself something to do.
Despite being here at college with Impulse for two years now, Skizz had seen no reason in going into the walls. Call him spoiled or whatever, but he didn’t like how dusty or dark they were. He sometimes wondered to himself how he ever even lived within them, way back before he met Impulse.
He shook his head, bringing his focus back to try and figure out a way back to Impulse’s dorm room. Maybe he had taken a right when he should have taken a left? Or had he just been going around in a circle this whole time?
Skizz sighed and realized he would never really know.
He pushed through though, since that was the only thing he could do at this point. But as he continued on, he stopped and spotted something different from the rest of the wall's path. He recognized it only due to living in one himself so long ago.
Without thinking much, he went over to it and opened the makeshift door. It was a borrower's home. Nestled right along the path and made out to resemble a human’s room as much as possible. Skizz took in the sight, filled with a bit of nostalgia. “Man, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen one of these…” It had been a long time since he had seen another borrower as well but it didn’t look like anyone was home right now.
Actually, looking at how dusty and unkempt things had gotten, Skizz would say no one has lived here in months. The thought saddened Skizz a little. He had been hoping to maybe meet and make friends with the borrower but it seemed like whoever had lived here had moved on a while ago.
Well, if this place had been abandoned, then no one would mind if Skizz looked around a bit. There wasn’t much in the way of borrowing supplies, the borrower had seemed to take all of that with them, which wasn’t surprising. There was no food either, which was good, otherwise it would have smelt awful in there. There were still a ton of fabric scraps, all in a pile by the bed and the borrower part of Skizz’s brain itched to take some, but he pushed it down. He didn’t need it, he had everything he could possibly ever need and want thanks to Impulse.
He continued to look before coming across a post-it note that had seemed to have fallen off the wall. He picked it up, turning it over to give it a look. It took him a second to figure it out but when he did, his eyes went wide. It was a map of the dorm layout, including all the entrances in and out of the walls in various places.
Skizz grinned. “Oh you just saved my butt, mysterious borrower.” He said out loud. He looked across the map, knowing Impulse’s dorm was 5 doors down from the stairs on the second floor. He found it easily and it looked like he wasn’t even that far from it!
He folded up the post-it note and shoved it into his inner jacket pocket just in case before leaving the makeshift room and heading back into the main part of the walls. Thanks to this map, he was gonna make it home in no time.