"You too!"  She tucks her scrap paper back in her bag, readjusts the coat so it's less lumpy, and heads out.  

She doesn't especially recognize any of the trees, but if she'd landed in Andoran or Tian Xia she wouldn't really expect to either.  She'll keep an eye on the woods in case of beasts and stick by the road- oh, she probably should've mentioned to the school janitor that she's an adventurer, he might be worried... no, if they don't have wizards here he probably just wouldn't believe her.

The first part of the walk is through the woods. The most threatening thing she encounters is a possum that plays dead in front of her.

Then the vast bulk of Highway 88, the road she's on (Eola) going up and up a large hill that turns into a bridge over a huge road with hundreds of cars and trucks running along in either direction. It's very loud, and smells kind of unpleasantly smoggy.

Then a complicated road crossing. Then some more woods. Then a couple of businesses.

And then she is walking past a large building complex labelled 'Metea Valley High School'. It extends back quite a ways; You could probably fit twenty houses or more into the place. There's a sign that says ENJOY THE SUMMER! There are people playing some sort of sport in the fields out behind it, but the place is otherwise quiet and empty.

Khalida has never seen a possum before; she watches it curiously for a moment or two but when it doesn't do anything more interesting, she resists the temptation to poke it with a stick and skirts around it instead. 

Tromp tromp tromp.  She is so prepping Mount tomorrow now that she doesn't need to fill up on Endures.

She has time to do a lot of thinking, even taking a break to stare at the cars for a while.  (That is so many, apparently Dana was serious when she said everyone needed one?)

She's got a place to stay and food for as long as she can make herself useful and/or not annoying; she should probably look into ways to earn local money before that runs out, she's got some silver on her but no idea how far it'll stretch.  (Which will depend on whether she can find a trustworthy moneychanger... which is probably a lot harder without Abadarans around, huuuuh.)  What those ways are she has no idea, even if she gave laundry wizarding another try no one here is going to know what it is or believe her when she says she can do it, and quite possibly they've got machinery for laundry just like they do for dishes.

She's- probably not getting home, at least not anytime soon, not when they don't have arcane magic here and only the one Church, their Plane Shifts are probably all spoken for already for church purposes.  (And even if they sell some, that reduces to the problem of local money, subtype: absurdly huge pile.)  Unless whatever landed her here decides just as unpredictably to take her back.

It might be just one of those weird things that happen sometimes, but- whatever did it gave her a Share Language while they were at it.  (Which might wear off at some point?  She should see if she can get a fix on it from the inside and figure it out, she's pretty sure it lasts longer than Comprehend but not whether it's hours per half-circle or days or what.)  And didn't drop her in the ocean or in the snow with her Endures all spent or whatever.  Which implies there might be a reason.  If it's some archmage or fey or something doing things for Mysterious Fey Reasons she'll just have to watch for more clues, but if it's Nethys... there's one obvious guess for why Nethys might send one of His people somewhere with no arcane magic.

Hey Nethys?  What the actual fuck?  Why me?  She is not qualified to be this world's Aroden!!!  She is second circle!  And not even all the way a priestess!

But... she does have a copy of the Book of Magic in her bag.  She's never tried teaching before, maybe she'll be terrible at it, but she can at least make a copy to leave behind here once she can afford enough paper.  (Maybe the library will pay her to copy their books?  That seems like the sort of thing it'd be harder to make a mechanism do, you can make clocks small enough to fit in a pocket but they just go around in circles...)  ...maybe two copies, one for the library if they'll take something that's not in English, and one for the church who'll have people who can cast Comprehend Languages, that way she can get it copied out in a day of Scrivening rather than translate the whole thing, in case it wasn't Nethys and whatever it was tosses her somewhere else before she can finish.

The next bridge that Eola road crosses over goes over a large train yard. An engine is currently pushing along about a hundred cars. They're about the size of the big trucks, not the small cars. Some of them are boxy. Some of them are rounded. Some of them are open top with huge piles of coal in them. It's gone by the time she finishes crossing.

Not so long after that is a row of what seems like more normal shops- A bunch of different pubs and restaurants, mostly, but also a 'nail spa', a barber, a book store, and a Radio Shack. They're all in one long row of brick facades, with a sizable parking lot out front. There's another truck here, this one is COCA COLA, and a guy is unloading a bunch of drinks from it for the pizza place.

Soon after that the road changes to a two-lane affair without any proper sidewalks, just a strip of dirt and grass. Over a short hill for much of this stretch is a neighborhood of houses. Each house is big, and has its own large yard that they mostly don't seem to be doing much with. Some of them have fences, or playgrounds, or patios, or a single lonely tree. She passes a barbecue cookout where loud music is playing and a bunch of people are talking, dancing, and drinking.

And finally, here's the library! It's actually a whole 'community center'. There are sports courts and multipurpose rooms of various kinds around, too, and a sign pointing the way to a park trail.

The library is at the far end. It's humble as Earth libraries go, but past the reception desk and open area at the front, there are twelve long rows of bookshelves on two separate sides on the ground floor, and a wide set of stairs up to a second floor where about twice that many bookshelves are located. Signs helpfully point out that the first floor is mostly CHILDREN and FICTION, while NON-FICTION is upstairs.