"I counted my breaths inside."
Ricky sighed, his voice growing more certain. "I also felt like I'd last only for a minute or less before I'd get alarming signs, yet I'm sure of it. I lasted for five whole minutes."
Ricky noticed the look on John's face. John was clearly processing a serious matter related to this revelation. "Don't tell me… No, no, John, don't!"
"Don't what?" John raised his eyes, a small, knowing smile playing on his lips. "I'm just hypothesising something!"
"Then let someone else than me do it!" Ricky even took a few steps away from John, as if he could physically distance himself from the dangerous ideas brewing in John's head. He had read what went through the mind of his friend. John had thought before that the fog was a deadly, immediate poison to his friends, largely thanks to the system's dire warnings. But now, it felt like it wasn't that instantly lethal at all!
