Mirelótë is there waiting for them so they have someone to direct their questions to instead of having to think of addressing the ceiling.

A young woman is the first out of the car smiling widely. "Well this is a surprise. Who are you and where's this?"

"Hello. My name is Mirelótë Ambela. I'm terribly sorry for the interruption."

"I don't mind so much for the moment. I might get more annoyed if I'm stuck here, though that depends a bit on whether I can still talk to people back home and what exactly there is to do here. For now this is too novel and unexpected to be annoying."

"I'm afraid you are in fact stuck here in a general sense, though the environment can be customized if I've guessed wrong about what will be comfortable. I'm so sorry."

"Would you care to explain why?" There are noises of distress from other occupants of the subway car who are standing close enough to hear what Mirelótë said.

"Your planet is in danger. My friend Sapphire and I are able to rescue a fraction of humans, including you."

"That is not the most heartening or detailed explanation but I suppose it captures the most important details. How small a fraction of humanity are you expecting to rescue?" She glances around. "One subway car's worth would be a depressingly small number."

"No, there will be several subway cars full, but we're receiving you one at a time. You're the first batch, any advice you have on the presentation would be useful. Many more humans have been scanned but the process of instantiating someone from a scan hasn't been tried on anything smarter than a dog yet."

"Well that sounds like a project I want in on. As for how to present this news, I can't think of anything that can be improved on. I might get more upset once the novelty wears off and I start to miss my family but that'll take a while."

Mireótë nods. "Would you like to see the apartments we've set up for you? They're based on books and movies and comparable buildings my species uses, so they might not be exactly right, but new ones can be made."

"That sounds like an intriguing combination of sources for design inspiration. What are you exactly if you're not human?"

"I'm an Elf."

"An Elf. Like from fantasy novels?"

"I'm translating. You could call me a Quendi or an Elda if you like."

"Well there's my first recommendation. Don't translate. Silly TV shows mean that most people won't blink at aliens who look like humans but calling yourself an Elf will make a lot of people think you're lying unless you have magic powers to demonstrate. Do you have magic powers to demonstrate?"

"No, my species isn't magic and all my advanced technology is fairly subtle, although my friend's is more dramatic, like the teleporter."

"Teleportation is pretty dramatic, though not very showy. I would like to see the apartments, though I'd be even happier to see what sort of science labs this place has. If I'm allowed."

"The apartments are this way. Science labs can be after we've settled everyone in and put in requests for any needed changes."

"That works. I'll save more questions for after I've seen these apartments." She follows Mirelótë towards what appears to be a bank of elevators.

"These look like elevators but they're actually more teleporters, which is why there are more destinations than floors. There's a hospital area here if anyone has a health problem, and a mall here for anything you want to add to your living areas, and there are six apartment buildings." She points out each on the map.

"Well now I want to visit the hospital to see what that looks like. I can always do that later. I assume the apartment buildings are more or less the same?" She doesn't wait for a response and picks a random floor in a random building. The doors begin to close and as soon as they're closed they begin to reopen. This floor has a winter theme. It's decorated in whites and blues. The carvings are patterned like snow flakes. The hallway is wider than would be expected for a normal human building.

"They're decorated differently but have the same basic amenities."

"That works. So... are all the apartments the same? How do I claim one?"

"They have different numbers of bedrooms. I can show you how if you tell me how many you'd like."