[ There is a lot that could be unpacked here, if there was any time, and if Alec had the presence of mind to do it. All he manages to muster up when Dan plucks him off the sand is a baffled internal what?
So, because he doesn't have anything better, and Dan seems to know what he's doing, Alec just nods. He's unaware of how much blank confusion is in his wide eyes as he turns them to the town. ]
There - !
[ He points at what's little more than a tumble down shack at the edge of town, but it's a building he can't look right through to the other side, and he can see a sagging door hanging off its hinges. ]
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So, because he doesn't have anything better, and Dan seems to know what he's doing, Alec just nods. He's unaware of how much blank confusion is in his wide eyes as he turns them to the town. ]
There - !
[ He points at what's little more than a tumble down shack at the edge of town, but it's a building he can't look right through to the other side, and he can see a sagging door hanging off its hinges. ]