Raoul has no reason to believe that the Persian is alive -- we know from Erik that his life was despaired of until well after the Vicomte had been revived, and he seems to have been taken back to his flat while Raoul was still in a (presumably) drugged sleep. Nor does Raoul have any means of knowing that he isn't going to be shut up under the Opera indefinitely in the dark, with his survival completely dependent on Erik's dubious mercies (so much easier just to accidentally-on-purpose forget about him).
And I still remember a short story that gave me the horrors as a child, where the protagonist gets stuck in a Tube train that stops in the middle of a tunnel deep underground, and after a while, as it gets hotter and hotter, the general panic grows, and the sides of the carriage seem to be closing in upon him, starts remembering certain pieces of rock he has seen in the Science Museum with tiny silvery threads embedded here and there inside them, as if crushed by unimaginable force...
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Date: 2020-09-20 03:44 am (UTC)And I still remember a short story that gave me the horrors as a child, where the protagonist gets stuck in a Tube train that stops in the middle of a tunnel deep underground, and after a while, as it gets hotter and hotter, the general panic grows, and the sides of the carriage seem to be closing in upon him, starts remembering certain pieces of rock he has seen in the Science Museum with tiny silvery threads embedded here and there inside them, as if crushed by unimaginable force...