Ajay takes it from him. "Thank you, that means a lot. It's been hard being cut off from everyone else. I assume they can't call Earth?"

Alex shakes his head. "No, I wish. It would be nice to be able to say goodbye if nothing else."

"Yeah."

Betty tears up a little. "I wish we could."

Ajay closes his eyes and nods. "My parents ... it would be nice to be able to talk to them again."

Emily nods gravely.

"It sucks." says Jade.

"Anyway, I think we should be off, we still have another four complexes to visit."

"Yeah, okay. See you guys later. Call us if anything else comes up."

"We will, thank you."

Back to the elevator.

And back to their home in black.

"So, which next?"

Emily pulls a coin out of her pocket and flips it twice. "Tails Heads means Green."

Alex shrugs.

"I guess that works."

The next lounge as expected has green accents, unlike the previous lounge though it's a mess some of the furniture is broken or stained and there's what looks like blood on the floor. A couple women are cleaning things up. One of them looks up when the elevator door opens. "Hello, did you come from Earth? If so, I have some bad news for you."

Alex snorts. "No, we're from the black section. What happened here?"

"Is everyone ok?"

"Do you guys need some help?"

The Japanese girl sighs. "Everything's still a mess and I'm not sure where the people who left ended up but that weird clinic thing managed to fix everyone who got hurt badly."

"There was a fight?"

Dave says, "If you want help finding people we can show you how to get a security job and look up their location. There's no map, but it's better than nothing."

The Scandinavian girl grimaces. "We didn't quite realize something was up at first, the lounge seemed kinda normal and the food was good. People were drinking. Then someone wandered out and started exploring and pretty soon everyone was kinda accepting that something weird was going on."

The Japanese girl continues. "Some people who were a bit too drunk decided that we must be in a horror movie so they started grabbing knives from the kitchen. And then people were yelling about whose idea it was that got us to come here, and things got worse."

"Ugh. That's awful. Do you want help tracking them down?"

The Japanese girl sighs. "I think it's better to let them go. Tempers are a bit calmer among those of us that stayed but there's no guarantee they've calmed down in the same way. Unless you know something we don't."