The Maze changed when he stopped trying to understand it.
The figures appeared without announcement - seated, waiting, unfinished. Behaved as if they had always been there.
Some looked away.
Some reached out, then hesitated.
Others carried the same posture he recognized from his own exhaustion.
He realized the Maze was not made of walls. Accumulated selves - versions paused at moments where moving forward had required more than they had.
Maze was a place to acknowledge what had been left behind -
and decide whether it could be carried further.