A new subway entrance has opened in Charlotte, North Carolina. There are no records of a new entrance there being built or approved, or even proposed.
But there it stands, a sign reading "SUBWAY" and a flight of stairs downward.
A new subway entrance has opened in Charlotte, North Carolina. There are no records of a new entrance there being built or approved, or even proposed.
But there it stands, a sign reading "SUBWAY" and a flight of stairs downward.
"No, the subways're new. I think with mass transit like this, you're supposed to usually wind up somewhere else unless you go through the whole route? Hopefully it'll help cut down traffic though!"
"… Is a time-traveling subway that goes through a dark void a sort of common occurrence around here? Because that's what this subway seems to be."
"No, we've never had a subway before, usually you only get subways in really big cities. And time-travel was only recently decriminalized, maybe that's how they built the stations so quickly?"
"… Right."
He thinks he's going to get off the subway at least briefly here. Does stack thing – Click – want to follow him?
It leans curiously at some of the other people entering the subway, but follows him out the door. It gets a few odd looks, but nobody says anything.
Nobody comments on the water either? Or the pieces of rock? … Polite of them.
Most of them seem to have genuinely not noticed, focusing on the subway. A few people seem to be deliberately averting their eyes, and a teen in a purple shirt catches sight of his water and Click and changes paths to walk toward the car along the far side of the room.
Tide is rather confused about all the people just walking onto the subway so nonchalantly.
Does anybody look inclined to talk to him were he to try to ask them for information?
Everybody is on the subway; there weren't many people to begin with. The person he talked to earlier waves to him from her spot by the window as the doors close.
… Oops.
Well he hopes it returns at some point if he needs it but right now he's not desperate enough to try breaking in or anything, especially seeing as he's in some place that is at least recognizably Earth.
He goes towards the entrance to the subway station.
At the entrance, there is a short flight of stairs leading to a door, opening onto the sidewalk at a somewhat busy intersection. The air is warm and dry. There is a lot covered in rubble and wood across the street to his left, a large building with a sign saying "Downtown Convention Center" across the street to his right, and a few shops across both streets in front of him.
Anybody about for him to ask about the local geography?
… Or how about he just takes off, into the air, and surveys the area briefly.
In front of him, there's a mall, a very tall black building with a poorly maintained lawn and garden of tulips, a large, slightly burnt-looking rectangular building, a radio tower, a trailer park, and a factory in the distance. To his left, there are buildings, a college, a fenced in patch of incredibly dead looking land, a small forest, and some empty desert. To his right are more buildings, some warehouses, an airport, a hospital, and some structures off in the hills.
The subway station, and behind it a pizza place, and some long buildings with mysterious metal antennae reaching into the sky, some residential-looking neighborhoods, and an area full of old-fashioned stucco and wood buildings. Off in the distance, there is an empty sandy area, dotted with scraggly bushes.
If he returns to the ground and produces a small circular disc of water near the stack thing and indicates that it should jump onto it, does it perhaps do as such?
Then the disc turns into a bubble and it flies up into the air with him. (It may be a bit scary. Poor stack thing.)
He goes towards the hospital.
The stack thing folds around itself until it's curled into sort of a loose ball, but seems to be looking around at the buildings beneath them.
A few people look up at them, then look away. The black and blue helicopters they pass don't noticeably react to them.
The hospital is long and blocky, about three stories tall, and covered in creamy brown stucco. Its sign reads "Night Vale General Hospital".
No point saying anything – it won't understand – but he is in fact slightly sorry about that.
After it's done leaning (assuming it finishes), he walks into the hospital, with his floating balls of water near his hands. He leaves the bits of rock outside the entrance.
It follows him into the building.
The area inside the doors is clean, with a thin gray carpet and tan walls. There are a few empty chairs near the doors, and a set of advertising pamphlets in a holder on the reception desk. The area behind the desk is harder to see into, full of a partially-transparent haze.
… Tyler walks up to the reception desk and meanwhile tries to ascertain if there is water in the partially-transparent haze.
There is water in the partially-transparent haze. It shifts around as the haze asks "Hello, what are you here for today?"