You see Taerius again.

It's well past midnight by the time you return to your room. Naomi is sound asleep. You can understand that well enough, but by this point you know you won't be able to get any rest tonight.

"Well done," says Taerius's voice. You look up and see him floating just above you. "You've finished your first power, and remarkably quickly too. Now you have more than two days left to play with your power however you want."

"Great," you murmur.

"I do have... one recommendation for how to use your intangibility while you still have it," Taerius offers. "As you know, there are some cameras in the hallway outside this room..."

"Yeah?" You can't see where Taerius is going with this.

"And you know people will be watching those cameras later. The ones in the hallway. The ones that have footage of you...?"

"Turning intangible and losing my clothes," you realize. "Fuck."

Taerius said that if you get caught, you lose your soul. Couple that with what has to be the most embarrassing possible way to get caught...

No. Don't go down that route. Not only is it extremely pessimistic (you need to hold on to the idea that you can fix this), but if you keep going you'll just end up wasting valuable time thinking up some even more embarrassing ways you could be caught...

"Well... I've already decided that I'm not going to be able to get any sleep tonight. I'll take care of this now."

You open your mouth for one yawn, then put your clothes back where you got them.

Jordan or his roommate Cam could've woken up while you were there. That would have been far more embarrassing...

_Shut up, _you tell yourself.

Bare once again, but notably less self-conscious about it, you make yourself fully intangible and float up through the ceiling. Once you are completely in between the floors, you make a crawling motion and swim through the solid mass until you're just over the hallway.

As carefully as you can manage, you drop one eye and a tiny amount of your cheek into the air of the hallway. There's nobody around, not that you expected there to be at this hour, but you can see the hall cameras.

What do you do from here? You realize you have no idea where the footage from the cameras goes. You suppose you could try to follow the wires to their destination, but what if there is none?

You go back into the ceiling and hover over the nearest camera. When you're behind it - definitely in its blind spot - you take a look at it. There is a hinge on it, where there might be a tape inside. If the footage is stored with the camera... then how the hell are you going to get rid of it?

Without leaving the ceiling, you switch to partial intangibility. The sudden feeling of the ceiling being inside your body disoriented you for a few seconds. No time to get distracted.

Tomorrow you could accidentally turn intangible and lose your clothes while you're with Leslie...

Shut up!

You reach into the camera. You can feel the film in it. How old is this camera? Since you're partially intangible, it only slightly moves to your touch, just like Jordan did. As hard as you can, you dig your partially intangible fingernails into the film, tearing it as much as you can.

Nobody can see the footage if the film is damaged, right? And if anyone sees the damage, the fact that the camera was never opened will rule out sabotage. You're in the clear.

You reenter your room, make yourself tangible once again, and collapse on your bed.