Chapter 19, everybody, in which we cover the friendly faith plate some more! Love the music for this….I transposed some of the tests and didn't realize it, but I decided to roll with it, and it seems to work. :)

Don't Starve © 2013 Klei Entertainment

Portal © 2007 Valve

Okay, so the last test was…disappointing….

Why? Because she hadn't fallen headfirst into a vat of acid?

Good news, though, I found out why—turns out I had these two tests transposed. This was supposed to come before that last test.

She stepped into a room with no deadly pitfalls, a ledge high above her, several portable surfaces, and another aerial faith plate. Pretty simple.

I blame being inoperable for the lapse—I'm reasonably certain it wasn't my fault. Probably human error or something like that.

Let it rest, you jerk.

She glanced up at the portable surface above her and the ledge and shot a portal there, then looked at the portable surface directly above the faith plate. Pretty obvious where the second portal should go. She shot it and stepped on the plate.

She shot up, just shy of the portal—

And came face to face with the last person she expected to see again.

"Wilson!?" she gasped, before gravity took over again.

She landed hard on the ground, the shock of seeing him distracting her from her normal graceful landing.

Huh, Maxwell noised. I guess that one wasn't calibrated for someone of your…ah, measure. I'll add a couple of tons to the max weight capacity.

Ignore him—she shot the portal elsewhere and jumped on the aerial faith plate again.

They grabbed at each other, him talking a mile a minute—

"We've got to get you out of here—I managed to sneak away but he'll be looking for—"

Miss and back down.

Wow. I think you broke it, actually. Here, let me lower the panel while I fix it.

He did so, sealing her off from Wilson, but that didn't matter.

Wilson was alive.

There was hope!

She flew through the test with an annoying amount of glee, she was sure. Maxwell voiced his irritation at her happiness after a while.

And what are you so happy about? Maybe you're more mentally impaired than I initially thought.

She shot a portal at the camera.

The portal fizzled out—she noted the black wall.

HA! See that? Every last camera is on a non-portable surface! I learn from my mistakes! What do you have to say to THAT!?

She gave it some thought before she flipped the camera the bird.

Now that's just rude, he said finally.