smartass_captain

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Jim's search pattern is steady and methodical, assessing and dismissing each door as he passes. He doesn't bother to evaluate them for any further dangers, like Adia is doing; he only needs to know one thing, whether or not each door leads to the shining heart of the Enterprise.

What the plan will be if - when - they find it, well, he's still working on that.

He has a good long while to think on it though, traveling up and down the rows upon rows of streets, periodically checking to make sure Adia is still in sight, staying out in the open himself so she can track him too. Once or twice, he catches sight of a particularly reflective doorway, and his head snaps around to look at it more closely. But it's never the right one, never that deceptively simple portal into one of his own personal hells.

In an infinite Nexus, with infinite doors, Jim had not expected to find one specific portal so easily. And as time wears on, and the door continues to elude the seekers, it becomes more and more clear that this is going to be a bigger search than he'd hoped.