Excellent.

Eliana is a fair cook, it turns out.

Both Nausicaa and Hisame are apparently culinary hedonists, as well as the more conventional sort, and are suitably complimentary.

The food is good.

And after dinner, entertainment?

They do have this lovely new pet, now properly rested...

Seize the opportunity, then.

Nausicaa plays the good owner more, this time, since they have the Keres and Hisame here for a full dose of cruelty. Good to keep things balanced.

She'll probably still start feeling sleepy before the others, though, and she'll take her pet with her when it's time for herself to retire. A few hours later. She is a night owl.

Eliana takes her leave at the same time, as the intermediating party has left.

And Hisame spends the rest of her waking period making sure her girlfriend remembers the Keres is her favorite.

She does so appreciate Hisame.

They're liable to get a fairly late start the next morning, all things considered.

Since Nausicaa's properly up before most of the rest of the household, she goes ahead and acquires the nicest tickets she can (they have their own car), then spends the rest on texts from a rather esoteric bookshop she finds shoved into a dark corner - mostly the things important to her own magic system, rituals and alchemic formulas... As well as a few books of poems she has a strong suspicion Hisame might appreciate.

Eliana is next up, and starts breakfast. She's amusing herself by having the pet beg for scraps when Nausicaa returns.

Nausicaa laughs, and has the pet kneel beside her chair, in easy patting range. Though the pet can feel free to keep begging.

She does want to keep begging! It's a fun game that doesn't require her to make decisions and makes her keepers happy.

"Good pet, though that wasn't a request, darling." (She can receive head scritches when she does especially well, though.)

The Keres and Hisame emerge eventually, to partake in the meal.

Hisame is miraculously navigating and eating with her eyes closed. It's debatable if she's actually awake.

Still, she'll be sufficiently de-zombified by the time they need to go to the train station.

Eliana has not ridden a train before, nor anything similar. She is looking forward to the experience.

The train hums. (It's less noisy than the Keres might expect). Their car is lushly appointed, with separate areas for sitting and dining and sleeping, and three (tiny) bedrooms. They're stocked with food and drink for the journey; the train's workers won't cross between cars while in the Void, though there's a carefully silent and very well paid man in a sharp red suit, who has his own room at the front, where he can see signals from the car ahead of them, which he stays entirely in. The windows show a view of the city, at first.

And then they pull into the Void.

The swirling view out the window here has a taste, a sound, a feel - 

Nausicaa seems to enjoy it, at least.

Eliana does not, particularly.

It intrigues the Keres, and she spends time having some of her sensorily-specialized ghosts observing it.

Eliana can close the curtains near her, at least.

The Void is confusing, nonsensical chaos! Very dangerous nonsensical chaos. Precog flat out doesn't work, but sensory ghosts can get a confusing mass of sensations, each from a different part, each coming to a mutually exclusive half-hearted conclusion.

Quite interesting. She wonders idly how it is possible to harness such energies. That seems to be how magic in this place works.

If she points her powers at the natives, Nausicaa seems more attuned to the chaos, something in her pulsing alongside it, while their little pet only has the faintest echoes.

Some support for that theory.

What about the others?

There's some push and pull - especially with Hisame, almost like the energy that pervades her is adjusting to the local energy like two very riled up cats.