After Cipher's outbreak, Leo wondered what could be the reason behind the group's growing mental instability?
After all, the books he'd read had warned of madness creeping in slowly—over weeks, not days—yet the team was already snapping at each other like rabid dogs.
However, after thinking about it for just a few minutes, he understood exactly why.
It wasn't the forest alone.
Even back on any normal planet, if a person was forced to stay awake for days on end, constantly running, constantly fighting, constantly under threat, while being starved of proper sleep, food, light, and comfort, cracks in their demeanor were sure to show.
Not because they wanted to be irritable.
But because they simply didn't have the patience left to be kind anymore.
