Maybe the second one, then? Since it doesn't start with one or four.
[Things are already off-kilter here. Bending the rules, lying about the rules - that'd be consistent with the message this whole room is sending them, wouldn't it?
He thinks of Brian - because he can't help it, because the numbers have his touch written all over them, because he has to wonder if this is how it felt for him, every day of his life. Trying to crack an unsolvable puzzle, all the while not knowing which pieces were lies.]
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[Things are already off-kilter here. Bending the rules, lying about the rules - that'd be consistent with the message this whole room is sending them, wouldn't it?
He thinks of Brian - because he can't help it, because the numbers have his touch written all over them, because he has to wonder if this is how it felt for him, every day of his life. Trying to crack an unsolvable puzzle, all the while not knowing which pieces were lies.]