She'll take one of those. And begin eating it.

And Thario will shortly finish his croissant and pull out a shiny new phone that he apparently got from the technology store before it flooded.

Blue: is making hand-gestures at his keriol and occasionally whispering to it. It stays wrapped over his shoulders and occasionally pokes its nose at his cheek.

Maya, meanwhile, is flaring red and looking around because some of the things here are not things she's seen before! Also she seems to be frowning in thought a little, probably again because of the red.

Nom nom chocolate is good. She takes another.

Maya grabs an apple turnover.

It is, fortunately, not magical in any horrifying way, so she eats it.

After she is done eating: "Where next?"

"No idea," says Maya, then looks to the others for their input.

Thario shrugs. "Probably just keep looking through more buildings? At the moment I'm just– kinda hoping that I find a way home. But I don't think it'll be as easy as that."

"It doesn't seem likely."

So, exploring more buildings. Step one, grab one more of the chocolate things and put in bag for later. Step two, exit bakery and inspect street.

The street: continues to exist as before. Has a few trees, is quite wide, has an assortment of buildings that are all mostly really tall, seems quite homogeneous…

There isn't a whole lot of interesting stuff but maybe there will be buildings with hidden depths, like that weird glass office from the last time they visited.

Who knows.

Who indeed.

Let's try, say, that building, two doors down.

That one: is one of the rather tall buildings! When they enter it, it appears to be a museum. With lots of rocks in it.

"Woo, geology museum."

"So it seems."

What sorts of rocks does it have?

They are various types! Igneous, they have lots of igneous rocks for some reason, more than the typical ~2/3 of Earth, might have been somewhere with lots of volcanic activity, and then a couple of sections for various sedimentary ones and a bit of metamorphic and– oh, is that a shiny rock?

It appears to be a shiny rock.

Perhaps she should go poke it.

Or she could not do that.

Or she could induce Thario to poke it. She points out the shiny rock to the others.

"No," says Thario. "I've had enough poking shiny rocks. Go fetch a ferret or something."

He looks at his hand – the one that was cut off when he poked the crystal.

Oh well.

There aren't any ferrets around, are there?

Maybe if she looks outside, but no, there are none in the museum itself.

Her curiosity about the shiny rock is not that pressing.

Are there other floors?

There are!

… One of the floors has a hovering cube in the center of the– well, of the whole floor! It is gray and slowly rotating.

Is there a helpfully explanatory placard near the rotating grey cube?

There is! She might need someone with language skills to read it, though.

Fortunately Maya is nearby, so Elleira won't have to go get one of the other two.

She calls her over.

"Can you translate this?"