He knows he's supposed to feel, in his core, that he - has it easy, situated on the first floor of the hotel as he is, with the good fortune of a trial far more straightforward than the third's behemoth guardians or the fourth's explosive ritual just to get in and out of his quarters. (Room 100 isn't a home, not really. He'd call it a base if anything, as in a game. A place to return to, when everything else about the park, ugly in its reticence, fails to yield answers or exits - a corner to rest, missing the familiar soft snores of his friends all the while.)
He also knows he's meant to consider himself lucky he needn't worry about a roommate flipping a gravity switch on sudden whim. There are further those who resort to sleeping in the lobby when, say, the second floor is snowed in for the day.
But even in the simplest scenarios - particularly after nights where the silence stretches too long in the dark - people make mistakes.
Being handed directions should have been a cakewalk. (In fact, he has most of the first few rooms down to an art.) It's an unexpectedly chilly afternoon, however, when Yamamoto crosses the elevator threshold, cheeks still chapped with a bit of autumn. No snow, not yet, not even on the weather floor today, but Yamamoto shrugs his shoulders as if brushing off a day's downpour anyway anyway. Exploration hasn't yielded much new. Limbo makes a decent training ground, sure - surprises, multitudes of strangers, not all of them happy to see him - but he misses a lot of things.
He wonders: if everyone is doing alright. If Gokudera has firmly relegated him to Tsuna's shoulderblade yet; if they're having luck looking for him (not just whether they are - that's a certainty).
Yamamoto wonders about so much, in fact, that, in thought, he hardly notices the other person he bumps into - a stifled yawn bringing his arm up right into her path.
Directions and ticket slip through his jarred fingers just as a brief "Ah!" of surprise leaps off his tongue.
He follows up with a pleasant: "My mistake - "
And in the midst of kneeling to retrieve what he's lost, Yamamoto smiles up. "Did you drop your directions too?"