Looks kind of like an abandoned city - not completely deserted, but the guy he can see tiptoeing around has the affect of a looter, not a resident, and also the half-full sack of a looter, not a resident. Why it was abandoned might have something to do with that big - sinkhole? - something over there which creates a round gap in the buildings; the looter is avoiding it.

Most people do not have flying powers like Lawrence and it is eminently sensible for them to avoid the sinkhole!

The city looks both interesting and...troubling. After checking his other unconscious Duplicates in his Eyeless trees...he uses Facade to render his skin a normal shade of light brown, turns his sclerae white again, and puts on a white shirt and pants and shoes from his Bevin — apparently his Bevin takes his color scheme very seriously and hasn't produced any non-monochrome clothing colors. He looks like a normal human being from Earth! It's actually interesting how humanlike that person he saw was — from what he's read and heard, lots of world inhabitants are humanoid but he hasn't seen any that are human. They always have some kind of morphological quirk.

He can't turn off his Living Bridge effects, but oh well. Earth's Living Bridge effect is literally nothing. Bevin's effect is a moderate regularization of temperatures towards comfortable ones, and Prison's muffles background sound. Those aren't easily noticed. But Mu's spawns little eddies of Color, especially around people or objects associated with strong emotions, and Kuiper's spawns little eddies of space dust. Difficult to hide or explain away. Oh well. It isn't Earth so...it should be safe...safer...

He feels naked, neither wearing rubber or marble.

He steps through. There is now a person on the other side!

The looter doesn't notice him immediately.

He doesn't actually have a view directly into the sinkhole from here. Would he care to approach it or is he going to look around the empty buildings?

Neither, he's going to pay attention to his Spatial Sense which can now cover a sphere 81 meters in radius all around him! If he's more than 81 meters away from it, then he will move closer until whatever's below intersects with it. He can theoretically see light and color using it but he hasn't bothered training and sensitizing that new sense that much because, well, very little is colorful in Prison. He can feel out shapes, densities, gravitational and electromagnetic fields.

His spatial sense is actually really fucking confused about the sinkhole probably. There's nothing there, it's inherently awful that nothing is there, and distances are indeterminate within.

He is really fucking confused and it's awful! It's...wrong. It's incorrect. It doesn't...doesn't accord with the laws of physics. No, the universe. He knows what vacuum feels like to his Spatial Sense and it's not this.

...regrettably there isn't any way to turn off or selectively remove volumes from his Spatial Sense. The most he can do is kind of look away from the area. Ugh. This is going to bother him the entire time he's here.

He's going to walk through the city now, away from the bad hole. It's been a long time since he walked through a city! Both in the sense of 'walking' and 'through a city'. Such as the city might be. What is there to see?

Away from the bad hole the city is spatially normal! There's houses and apartments, streets and sewers, theaters and bars, mostly empty of movable property but not very thoroughly. Stray cat. Feral pigeon. They don't have electricity. They do have gaslamps.

It's like a reverse Rorch! Fires but no electricity. He hasn't been but he's read books about it.

He's assuming the city is abandoned because of the horrible sinkholes though he can't exactly ask anyone. Part of him wants to fly to move faster but the nostalgia-novelty of actually bothering to walk again is enough that he continues walking instead. He looks for any visible signage or billboards or pamphlets on the ground to get started on picking up the language. His Duplicate can duplicate them, monochrome, with marble tablets.

Are there any other spatial anomalies?

There are some signs up! For businesses, mostly, and street names and address numbers, a few handbills. There are books among the abandoned things in the less picked-over houses. The evidence suggests yes printing press no more sophisticated methods.

He's going to leave them where they are once he looks at them but he will copy them!

The technology is very quaint. It's kind of charming.

After a few hours of walking, the nostalgia-novelty of walking again grows thin. So he's going to fly up into the air now and look around. Is the sinkhole thing like, confined to this city or are there others? 

There is one in the city.

Miles and miles off, there's another one, in a bit of rocky scrubland, much smaller ("smaller" here meaning you would not take as many steps to skirt around it at an equally conservative distance).

...part of him really wants to try experimenting with the badness sinkholes but he should probably learn more about them before like. Trying to stick and drop things in them.

Can he find any non-abandoned cities with enough flying? Or has civilization been utterly reduced to post-apocalyptic anarchy?

If he flies enough he can find populated towns of various sizes that don't have sinkholes in them!

Okay great!

...he's actually never done this before. He's visited Mu and Kuiper but didn't like. Interact. With any sapient inhabitants. He supposes he'll just have to find out if people are friendly.

He'll touch down in the outskirts and walk in. Who to approach...does anyone seem like the sort of person who would be amenable to being telepathically communicated to. Does anyone have that kind of vibe.

Oh hey when he's close enough there's another spatial ?!?!!? over that way. - and one that way and one that way.

ugh ugh ugh are they the same kind as the sinkholes or

They are similar! They're more like those than like anything else, except vertical and more sort of ring-shaped! But perhaps more exciting is that past them there's different stuff to spatially sense than what there is if you sense around the back of them.

He knows wormholes exist and that Conduits of Kuiper can make them. He doesn't have the ability, though. Surely they don't feel like this. It's a different flavor of incorrect from the sinkholes of nothing though, so there's that.

He will get closer. Do people walk into them? Or out of them. Are they a teleportation thingy. His intuition thinks they are.

People do walk into and out of them! They certainly might be a teleportation thingy.

Is there any kind of guard or tollgate situation? Or do people really just walk through like it's the door of a shop or something. He really wants to try entering one but there might be a specific requirement for it and maybe if he tries, he gets spaghettified.

Looks like people just walk in. Sometimes with carts and stuff.

Can people... see him, hovering in the air, by the way.

Nope, he touched down already. His instincts for Gravitic Angel and Spatial Sense are good enough to land him gracefully even when startled.

There's probably some book that teaches you how to better approach unknown new worlds but if there is, it isn't in his more than ten thousand book library. He should urge his Bevin to fetch some, next time it does. From wherever Bevins get their books from.

He'll scoot over to a place with fewer, but not 'none except one other' people, and then select someone who seems interruptible and friendly. Based on vibes.

:I have telepathy and I can receive what you push at me.: And then he sends a concept: dividing the current thoughtspace into the deepest layer, memories, the middle layer, surface thoughts, and the top layer, speech. And that only the speech part is being shared, and that it's true for him too.

:Hello. Sorry, I'm from far away and I don't speak the language. Are you free for some minutes to converse?: He's looking at them and he gives them the knowledge of what he currently looks like and where he is in relation to them.

"YEEP," says the chosen person, falling off her sidewalk café chair.

:Sorry!: Again. He is dying of mortification but he has had this power long enough to avoid transmitting anything he doesn't want to. :If you don't want to talk to me, I'll go away if you say so.:

:Where are you from?? Nobody has this! This isn't a thing!: