The instructor had his doubts about the man, but if what he was saying was true, then maybe they had a way to stay alive longer in this place, and that would give them enough time to figure out how to get out.
He didn't press further on the question of how the man had arrived days before them. Maybe it was true. Maybe it came down to some strange quirk of this place, after all, what hadn't been strange since they'd gotten here?
He certainly wasn't going to lower his guard just because of that. With that in mind, the trio decided to release the man and let him lead the way.
They had noticed that the blizzard seemed stronger at night, if you could even call it that, given that after hours of wandering they had never seen anything that genuinely resembled day or night. There was enough light to make the environment visible, but it wasn't sunlight. It was something else that nobody could quite name.
