"It's where I'd expect a stairwell to be!" he says, and climbs up.

She follows him up.

There is: the second story of a fire station!

"Okay, now here there'll be the locker room... Yes!"

"Okay, so, is this just good because we're in a normal part, so we're closer to finding how to get out? Or is this good because fire station locker rooms automatically have exits or something?"

"The former, but I think this particular locker room probably has an exit. Help me find it."

And then he does pretty much the opposite of looking, and starts casually wandering about, not paying attention where he's looking.

"… Sure," she says, going ahead and looking around for some portal or something. "What does it look like? Weird tear in midair, weird shimmering portal, black blob, maybe a hovering arrow with a label saying 'exit'?"

"Oh, no. You know when you're looking at something and then you notice a thing from the corner of your eyes and when you turn to look there's nothing there? That's what it looks like."

"I've got to say I haven't really encountered that much, if like, ever? But okay, thing at the corner of my eye that isn't there when I look at it, sure."

"Yep! It helps if you're not really looking at where you're looking so more stuff can get your attention when it's weird."

He continues walking around—it's a rather extensive locker room, and oughtn't have fit in that fire station—somewhat aimlessly and slowly.

Rachel will try to do likewise, also keeping her eye on Sadde… out of the corner of her eye.

Perhaps she'll notice something. She doesn't know.

Sadde continues behaving... well, like he's been.

Perhaps she'll notice a thing out of the corner of her eye that looks like an exit?

This might take a while.

It might! Sadde doesn't seem to mind, though, and even hums happily under his breath.

She doesn't hum. She does continue looking.

...slight movement just over there...

… And if she looks directly at it, does it disappear?

"I think I saw something," she tells Sadde.

Yes it does!

"Ooh! Where?"

"Well, it was approximately here," she says, pointing off in the direction she saw it.

She turns away from it to try to put that area in her peripheral vision again, also keeping Sadde visible. Does it reappear?

Yup!

"Yeah, that way," she says, continuing to point at it.

So he goes that way, straight into a wall—

—and vanishes.

Oh, well, of course he does, why would the doorway be obvious.

She walks up to the same point on the wall, tentatively, and tries to walk through it.

And Sadde's waiting for her there! They're behind a shopping mall in what looks like a nice, expensive suburban area.

"Welcome to the Suburbs!"

Okay, well, walking not quite through a wall: weird.

"Cool," she says, looking around. Still keeping Sadde in her line of sight, mostly.

"We'll need to find someone to take us to the City proper for orientation, though, it'd be a long hike and we'd probably end up lost forever."