Mark hadn't exactly like the idea of splitting up, but Avery knew more about the game than he did, so it could only be the smartest option right now. He looked back at the others as they headed off in other directions before taking off in his own. Hopefully the heat would die down and they could all reunite soon. Mark didn't like the thought of being alone for too long, because he was afraid that he might go crazy again.

After Delirious had hit him with a rock, knocking him out, his mind had been set straight. He knew now that what he'd been missing while his mind was off was that Avery hadn't brought them all there on purpose, and that she had also tried to save Jack, and that Jack was the one who stopped her from doing so. That was the one thing that had Mark confused. Why had Jack stopped Avery from trying to help?

These confusing thoughts had been going through Mark's head ever since he had made up with Avery, but now they weren't his concern. Getting away from The Nurse was his concern right now. She had chosen to go after him, and Mark wasn't exactly hopeful on getting away. But to his surprise, The Nurse made a sudden turn and teleported away.

Mark stopped and waited. He wasn't sure if she had gone ahead to cut him off or went after one of the others. He was all alone for the time being, and he was starting to feel the anxiety creeping into him, messing with his mind. Mark shook his head before he slowly made his way over to a bent over tree. The trunk was snapped at the bottom, so the blackened tree was lying almost flat on the ground, since some of it was still attached to what was left for a stump.

Mark could still see the faint firelight from the burning hook, but he wasn't heading back to it. It he knew the others, they wouldn't go back to where they split up. Avery hadn't said to, and unless she had, then everyone had to meet up again by chance. Mark sat down under the tree to rest, his head throbbing where Delirious had left a large bruise.

Was it the only way to stop my rampage? Mark wondered, thinking back to the strangely blurry memory of getting hit on the head with something cold and hard. He saw a flash of blue, and then everything went black. That was all that had been left of his craze moment. I guess it was, then. Mark thought.

He waited a couple of minutes before standing up again and looking for something that might help him. Avery had said that she had found a note inside the Asylum saying that there were only five generators, and got frustrated when she realized that she may as well have just passed one. Mark may have been a little out of it at the time, but he'd still been picking up on what the others had been saying.

Mark wandered until he saw a large gray structure that must have been the Asylum. He turned towards it and walked along the wall until he came across a window he could climb through. Hopefully he would find the generator that Avery believed was here, and then maybe Cartoonz might not detest him as much. Mark couldn't let himself get his hopes up, though, because there might not even be a generator here.

Wandering through the hallways was leaving Mark with strange theories as to what happened here. With all of the broken bed frames and ripped up, blood stained mattresses everywhere, he was getting the feeling that something occurred after whatever fire had torn through the building. The walls were scorched black in places, and the floor didn't look very stable in others. The entire Asylum was a mess, and that was really the only thing that Mark would let himself pick up on.

It was only the first floor that Mark was currently exploring, and he chose to ignore the few staircases he came across heading up to the second floor of the building. The one staircase that he came across that was slightly unexpected, went down. Mark stood at the top of it, staring down into what must have obviously been the basement. It was emitting a strange feel, one that was different from the others.

Mark looked around him nervously, wondering where The Nurse was at the moment. Hopefully, nowhere near him. Slowly, Mark took a step forward, placing his foot cautiously on the first step. It was lightly dusted with some kind of sand, and so was the rest of the staircase. Mark carefully made his way down into the basement where he immediately felt a drastic change in the temperature. It was nearly freezing, while it was rather warm upstairs and almost unbearably hot outside.

Mark shivered from the instant cold and he decided to stay at the bottom of the steps. The first thing he noticed about the basement, which was fairly large, was that there were zero hooks. Instead there was a single noose hanging from the ceiling, and the rest of the room was entirely empty. Except for one thing in the corner that soon caught Mark's attention.

It was some kind of shelf built into the wall, and there were three pockets large enough to fit a human. And that was exactly what they held. Mark stared at the three rotting bodies that were oddly familiar to him. He recognized one of them as Dwight, one of the characters in the game, and supposed that the other two were also from the game.

The basement was starting to give him the complete creeps, so Mark chose to turn around and head back upstairs. He welcomed the warmer temperature with a sigh before he started looking around again. Mark wandered around the first floor of the Asylum for a bit longer before heading up to the second. It was freakier than the first floor, and Mark finally decided to just leave the Asylum all together. But when he tried to find a way out, he couldn't even locate a staircase down to the first floor again.

Jumping out a window from the second floor shouldn't have been a problem either, but once again, Mark couldn't locate one. He was lost inside the hallways of the Insane Asylum, and considering the earlier events from the graveyard, being trapped here wasn't really the best situation.

Mark had gotten himself stuck in the worst kind of situation that he could get himself into. Without an escape route from the Asylum, the chances of The Nurse finding him may as well be greater. What was worse, if he couldn't find a way out, he couldn't find the others. It would have to be them that find him, and Mark didn't actually think that chance was likely.

But perhaps he wouldn't have to worry about that, because when Mark had gone through the security room in the center on the second floor, he finally spotted an opening in the wall that led outside. It wasn't a window, but it was still technically a way out. Mark picked up the pace and was soon running towards the opening, getting excited at the thought of finally getting out of this burnt up building.

Before Mark reached the gap in the wall, however, the was a sudden lurch beneath him and he yelped with surprise as the floor crumbled beneath him. Mark tried to grab hold of what floor hadn't suddenly collapsed underneath him, but he missed and fell with the rest of the rubble.

When Mark opened his eyes again, he found himself half buried in crumbling concrete. He pushed himself out from underneath the rubble he'd fallen down with, and though it was painful, he managed. Once he was free, Mark examined the damage he'd taken from the fall. It didn't seem to be anything more than a few scratches and other bleeding cuts. He struggled to his feet and looked around.

There were walls all around him, and Mark couldn't see a door. It appeared that the only way out was through the hole in the floor above him. He guessed he was in what was an unfinished room of the Asylum, and just hoped that he would be found soon. Mark seemed to be having a lot of hope with things here.

He tried climbing up the piles of rubble to reach the opening, but even when he stacked what he could pick up, he couldn't get high enough. Mark stared upward through the gap, listening to the sound of his racing heart and whatever else was up there. It was quiet, and Mark wasn't even sure if there was anyone or anything else inside the Asylum.

"HEY!" Mark yelled out of desperation. There was no answer, just the echoing of his own voice bouncing off the Asylum's stone walls.

This was just fantastic.

He was trapped.