He needs to notice he's in the Chaos closet it at all to start with.
The narrative equivalent is "somehow", a word that might as well be pronounced as "THE WRITER DOES NOT KNOW WHY THE CHARACTER IS DOING THIS!", as in "Somehow, the cop had forgotten to ensure his gun was loaded" or "Marcia had somehow lost all of her clothes", or worst of all "Somehow Frank just knew how to open the fiendishly complicated lock in seconds". Things the author requires to happen but has no idea how to make happen, or can't be bothered to developing, are held together with "somehow", the prose equivalent of chicken-wire and spit.
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The narrative equivalent is "somehow", a word that might as well be pronounced as "THE WRITER DOES NOT KNOW WHY THE CHARACTER IS DOING THIS!", as in "Somehow, the cop had forgotten to ensure his gun was loaded" or "Marcia had somehow lost all of her clothes", or worst of all "Somehow Frank just knew how to open the fiendishly complicated lock in seconds". Things the author requires to happen but has no idea how to make happen, or can't be bothered to developing, are held together with "somehow", the prose equivalent of chicken-wire and spit.