Chapter 3

Chapter 3, "Distant Contact", is the third chapter of Arc 1 of Exit/Corners.

Synopsis
After being spurned by Rae in the third room, as he still too infuriated for company, Ink and the three women retire back to the lounge to talk to their Contacts. Ink explains to Sean his overall situation and asks him for help in finding his location. After chatting shortly with Beth about her Contact Earl, her son, and his refusal to talk to her, Rae comes back in to take a break from "puzzle-solving". While Aether, Beth and Liza go try out the puzzle themselves, Ink tries to draw Rae into a conversation about his past. Failing to do so, they both go back into the third room, a small corridor, to solve the puzzle. Afterwards, Ink finally gets a message from Sean at the same time as Beth's son responds to her as well. The chapter ends with the surprising cliff-hanger that, according to Sean, the Four Elements Hotel "no longer exists".

You can find a complete transcript of chapter 3 here.

Puzzle
The solution for the puzzle can be found here.