[The change of subject catches Envy off guard, but it only takes him a second to catch on. After all, they've been dealing with the glitches all day.]

Because of everything screwing up?

[He considers it.]

If it is, it started a long time ago. This kind of thing happened about a month after I got here, except it was worse. Everything...the whole world went dark and blocky that time. [He doesn't know the word for pixels.]

[Ahead of them, the woods open and the lake shore finally comes into view; they're separated from it by what's practically a marsh, with smaller trees sprouting here and there. Lucky whines and lifts his feet high to keep them out of the mud as much as he can.]