<GenderBender> Sounds extremely boring.

<argylecape> Stakeouts usually are, yeah.

<argylecape> I can play with the interenet or whatever while I wait, though, it's not a big deal.

<argylecape> Speaking of which, is there anything I ought to be looking into that way?

<GenderBender> What way?

<argylecape> Online.

<argylecape> I still need to look up videos of the other guys, anything else I should be looking up?

<GenderBender> Oh.

<GenderBender> Maybe heads of all departments, and the mayor?

<GenderBender> I'll see if I can't find anything about Montgomery or the Picassos

<GenderBender> And will look up cubism statistics

<argylecape> Okay, cool.

Videos?

Videos!

No one she recognizes.

Good, it'd be worrisome if they were.

Dougal back from lunch yet?

Nope, he—

Oh, there he is, arriving by car from rather far away.

She listens to him as he comes in.

He greets people cheerfully and talks to everyone and seems pretty well-liked.

Up he goes to his office.

Yeah, that's not in any way unexpected.

Nope.

What might be is the way he, after a few minutes reviewing some documents, gets up, goes to the elevator again, and presses a button to a floor that does not exist.

Uh-huh.

<argylecape> Might be about to find Montgomery.

<argylecape> The elevator goes to a Sideways floor, looks like.

<GenderBender> Sideways floor?

<argylecape> Yeah

<argylecape> There was one in the tower where I met Hollister, I don't think I told him but the Picasso wandered around there for a little bit.

<argylecape> I can't always hear them, but if it works like that one I'll be able to as long as the elevator car is there.

<GenderBender> Huh. Bizarre.

And it turns out to work like that one—a new impossible floor between two others. However, it isn't an actual floor—the elevator leads to a kitchen, which opens to a patio and an indoor garden, and some more bizarreness like that.

<argylecape> Yup, that's the Sideways.

<argylecape> I wonder why he has both that one and the one in his office.

<argylecape> Also, no Montgomery yet.

<GenderBender> Do they lead to the same place in the Sideways?

<argylecape> Not obviously, but it might not be.

<GenderBender> I'd guess they lead to different places, otherwise it'd be silly to have the two entrances.

<GenderBender> On the other hand when has Bedlam let silliness stop her from doing anything?

<argylecape> Heh.

Dougal doing anything interesting?

Mostly walking, walking, walking—

—and then he goes through a wall and disappears.

<argylecape> And he just left the Sideways.

<argylecape> Gotta be a one-way door, I can't hear it even knowing it's there.

<argylecape> I wonder if that's how he teleports into Montgomery's lab.

<GenderBender> Shouldn't you be able to hear one-way entrances from the exit side?