Fortuna Verto

10-First Contact

Discussions on the elements continued well into dawn, with the new day settling in over the sky outside. With dawn's departure, businesses were settling down for a midday rest.

Lyun had actually lost track of the passage of the sun there, having a bit of fun trying to teach Axln as she had been. Axln had actually been able to tap into her gift there a bit, she had an instrument that was able to detect such, but she didn't actually resolve any effect there, no matter how much they tried. Lyun however was starting to suspect that Axln might specifically have an affinity for sand or dust or something, tiny thin stones. The gift was heavily influenced by how people thought, and Axln's interest in tiny things like nanites was making it seem pretty fitting. Her instruments actually detected tiny measures like that earlier, it was a really good theory at least. However, it was getting late, so maybe they could just worry about such stuff another time. Technically, getting a spark of the gift triggered was the entire goal anyway, so they were doing rather well in that respect.

Such a thought pattern, though, did remind her that the plan originally was to come up with a plan at this point in where to go next. They actually didn't have any set destination after this. Ezhyrae however couldn't help them any further, she had her own stuff to attend to, so still with no plan the two girls found themselves back outside once again. Lyun wasn't inclined to cause Axln extra stress though, she would figure something out. As an act to lend confidence, Lyun simply started off in a direction, as if she knew where to go next. Before she could come to a decision, she found them arriving at a major transit terminal, possibly the last place she might have actually wanted to go. So late in the morning, the place was packed with people trying to go home. However, rather than just back down now, she continued into the terminal. The crowds started to gather around them in high density, Axln doing her best to follow the taller Lyun. Lyun however was rapidly getting uncomfortable, making it even harder to think. They could take transit.. where? Was there anywhere that wasn't so annoying? At this rate, even the other world was feeling way more comfortable than this.

In the middle of a vast open crowd, hidden under the protective fibres, both ashen hands sparked awake once more. The crowd around them were caught suspended in a state of mild surprise, everything petrified by white ashen all over again, proceeding to then thaw as white ice. The crowd of this holo-filled terminal were as surprised as they were at the sudden white mist of their appearance. Kori knew right away what had happened, and also knew they had to not make a scene about it. Grabbing Rosa, the two of them vanished around the corner and then blended in the crowd, people still uncertain what had even happened. Kori however noticed that they were heading towards the loading bay. There wouldn't be a choice, to make sure this whole thing didn't cause problems, Kori would have to pick a destination. The most plausible destination might be the most familiar, she could just head towards her home. After their long dawn, the two of them were sleepy, even despite this then being early for everyone else. At least, at her place, they could get a reasonable nap without much to actually worry about.

The biggest worry she had at that point was with regards to how inconvenient it really was to just swap worlds like that at almost absolute random. That really had not been a good time to switch over, both for where they had left and where they had arrived. If nothing else, they needed to figure out how that whole process seriously worked, so that they could actually avoid messy problems. As it stood, while they had avoided abnormal messes like being questioned for appearing out of nothingness, they had been thrown into the worst of her normal messes. There happened to be a high number of humans going towards the same loading bay as she was, and none of them appeared especially happy to be stuck with a conduit like her. She was at least thankful that this was not rush hour, that would have made everything much worse.

Rosa was quick to notice the problem too, not having been ignorant to the issue. She had even taken an opportunity earlier with Sophie to quickly discuss the hatred of Conduits while picking her outfit. She was also not ignorant of being uncomfortable in a busy transit vehicle. She followed along Kori, a bunch of the process being handled quickly and easily by holo at a small counter. Passing through the gates behind the counter, she found them entering yet another one of those holo elevators, which for some reason had taken them upwards. She quickly discovered the reason for such was the path that ended at the docking bay of an aerospace bus. Flying, of course the city of towers kept thinking vertically. Sure, her world still had a few things in the air too, but underground was considered much more functional.. like the Obsidian Hall. Divesting from that line of thought, she returned to the present as they boarded the bus, Rosa applying her experience to bring them to an isolated back right seat and letting little Kori have the window seat. Yhzia had always done this for her in the past too. Once everyone else was also aboard, the bus finally took off.