If the "movie" didn't have it scripted, Chaisi was powerless to act.
He could only follow the script written by Kai Luonan.
That was how Chaisi was able to "push open the door" and see Kai Luonan on the bedroom bed. It was also how he could follow behind him, stumbling step by step along the streets of the Nest.
The day Kai Luonan brought Daiju Monroe into the Nest, it was an afternoon with a somber, overcast sky.
The sky was a vast slab of slowly hardening cement, pressing down on their heads. The air was thick and sticky, impossible to draw into the lungs no matter how hard one breathed.
This was the first time in his life Chaisi had seen the Nest, and it was also the first time he was completely oblivious to it.
He roared, cursed, and begged. Time and again, he charged forward, reaching out, but the "movie" had not scripted it—so he could never catch up. He would forever remain a few steps behind Kai Luonan.
