A new subway entrance has opened in Charlotte, North Carolina. There are no records of a new entrance there being built or approved, or even proposed.
But there it stands, a sign reading "SUBWAY" and a flight of stairs downward.
A new subway entrance has opened in Charlotte, North Carolina. There are no records of a new entrance there being built or approved, or even proposed.
But there it stands, a sign reading "SUBWAY" and a flight of stairs downward.
Sigh.
He thinks he will sit on one of the seats, in that case. Wait for something to happen. He would've expected a response from Relay if he were still able to contact him, but there hasn't been anything, so he's probably quite cut off from where he was.
Especially since he's pretty sure Relay can reach planet-wide. At minimum.
He will keep looking around and keep alert, ready to jump away if anything dangerous happens.
… And after a few minutes he will get a bit frustrated by the boring, stupid darkness, and a few minutes later he decides that he is going to try punching something to fix the situation.
Is there a window that is labeled 'Emergency Exit', by any chance? Maybe with a hammer nearby, though the hammer is optional.
He will punch one, then. He can punch quite hard. Not quite superhumanly so, but definitely at the top end of human, and he knows how to throw a punch, even at a stupid, freaking window.
The glass fails to break, with a dull thud. It hurts his hand to punch, but not as much as punching something that hard should have.
It doesn't cause him to, like, damage his hand any more, feel like he might have broken a bone, that sort of thing?
No. His hand feels like he punched the glass hard, but not very hard, twice in a row, and does not feel very damaged.
Ugh.
Admittedly he doesn't want to break his hand. That would be frustrating to have to deal with wherever he's going with this thing, which he is presumably and hopefully doing because it would be annoying to be stranded in a void for the rest of his life – they might not just have some quick-fix healer wherever, so he might not be able to get it easily healed.
How are the other weird items doing? Presumably they are still where he left them?
The pamphlet and book of mazes and wrapper fragment are still where he left them, on the seats.
He will pick up the book of mazes, in that case, and see if there are signs of someone having panicked and written about the evil subway or something. He didn't notice any last time, but still.
There isn't anything obvious. The back of one of the last pages is covered in squiggles, like someone tried to fit as many curves as they could into a line without crossing it over itself, then filled in the empty loops with zigzags and spirals. This might be an encoded panicked message of some sort.
If it is, he doesn't think he can read the language.
Still nothing new in his surroundings? There hasn't appeared some sort of, uh, planet or something out the window?
Nothing appears if he studies the featureless darkness, he assumes. Nor if he spends time looking around the subway car – are there advertisements and things on the ceiling or is it extremely bland on the inside?
The darkness stays featureless even upon extended study. There are no advertisements on the ceiling, just calmly glowing strips of fluorescent lights.
Ugh.
If there is literally nothing interesting here apart from being a weird freaking indestructible and less-harmful subway car in the middle of some stupid void he will kill twenty minutes playing games on his phone.
Stupid abduction.