[He knew it. She doesn't have an answer...which means she's following someone else's programming. She's being commanded to get him...to bring him to the Security Guard, or Vanny, or god knows who else wants their hands on him.

Why him? He didn't do anything but...well. Stay after hours. Surely he's not the first child to have done this? Surely...

Gregory huffs, leaning back a little against the tree he feels pretty confident is hiding him from the main route. Even if Roxy came down the same way he went (which is very likely, she's probably not even that far from him since they both arrived almost in tandem), she wouldn't be able to spot him. Now, hearing is a different story...

But it's fine. If she's having to use the Gear, she's not in physical earshot. It's fine.]

A surprise, right. You mean how you're probably gonna make me "disappear", just like how all those other kids went missing...