They all know. They all know. Between the things he was forced to admit at the movie night and the mask dangling from his shadow's fingers and the howling void in his head after they visited Alex's house and the way he sleepwalked past the security cameras and the face scribbled into totheark's video and the way his hands are shaking and his face is hot with shame, he knows he can't lie his way out of this.

You too?

"Yeah." It's whispered, barely audible, but he says it.

He's relieved, the shadow said. Relieved it wasn't ever just him.