He hates you, Martin could remember Charlotte saying. He had probably been hiding under the table. That had been one thing that hadn't changed before and after he was broken.

The 'he' she was talking about, of course, was Phil, his older brother.

But Martin didn't really like to think about Phil, even if he had heard Phil say he was sorry, because when he thought about Phil, he couldn't help but think about how much his head had hurt, in those last days before Charlotte had put him back together.

You have to get up, she would have said back then. Back in the days when he still lived with Phil, Mommy, and Daddy. Back when Phil would promise not to leave him with the deafening mayhem of the bustling children's eatery, with those very unnerving animatronics. But no matter how many times Martin believed him, Phil would break it.

You have to get up, the memory of Charlotte's voice echoed.

But Martin was standing up. He was always standing up, generally.

After Charlotte had taken him and put him back together, he could stand up for hours without so much as blinking.

It wasn't at all hard.

Not anymore. In fact, if he didn't think about it, he might go for a whole day without moving so much of a muscle.

If he still had muscles. What was he made of? Charlotte hadn't said, and he hadn't asked.

He had a route that he always took, nice and dark and safe, until it wasn't safe-

until Martin's fear of the dark was overwhelmed by the cover it provided.

Clump. Clump.

Martin darted into the vent.

There were two animatronics who weren't fooled by Jeremy's mask. One was kept in a box, and they had somehow figured out that it wouldn't bother Jeremy as long as he played a little song from a music box, over and over and over, all night.

Jeremy had to rewind the music box a lot.

Jeremy didn't like that.

But Jeremy had a very strong feeling that if he didn't keep that music box wound, whatever thing was in that box in that prize corner…he would be dead.

And he knew that the mask wouldn't fool whatever it was.

He didn't know how the management knew.

He didn't ask.