This isn't where Raafi went to sleep. He'd set his bedroll up on a comfy patch of moss under a tree, and now - he still has the bedroll, at least, and his pack, but the tree and moss are nowhere to be seen, replaced by a strange metal room with still, stuffy air and an implausibly clear night sky out the window.
"Hello?" he calls, getting to his feet.
'Who' will be a more interesting question when he knows what, probably. He checks the first page of Headlines, uncertain what to expect it to contain.
The introduction is about how daeva are commonplace now but were thoroughly unknown before and the book will consist of articles annotated to highlight confusions and incompletenesses associated with reporting from such ignorance.
Interesting, but maybe not the best format to start with, for him. And - he is getting tired. Best to come back to this. He starts looking more intentionally for the travel section, and once he finds it, for something that describes a patch of wilderness that he might camp in for the night.
There are campsites! There aren't books about them, though. Books about camping recommend the Internet for up to date information on site availability.
He's probably not going to figure that out just now, and someplace more private is a better idea anyway when he's this far out of his element and trying not to draw attention to himself. Any descriptions of actual wilderness?
There are books about national forests!
The idea of a national forest is a little strange but the forests themselves sound perfect, and there are lots of pictures. (He's really not sure what the deal is with these books and how they're manufactured, but he's certainly not complaining.) He picks a nice-looking evergreen forest to teleport to.
Now he is in a nice-looking evergreen forest.
He is awakened three hours later by a fairy. "Hey! You're not allowed to camp here!"
"You're not allowed to camp in the forest! You'll disturb the ecology and we're reintroducing bears, man!" The fairy scoops up Raafi and all his stuff and whisks the lot of it into the air. "What if a bear found you? How did you even get in here?" Whoosh! Now they are at a cabin with a sign that says RANGER STATION.
"Good for you, what if bears don't know better than to bother you? How'd you get here - fairy? Hiked in from up north? You gotta go home and my binding won't cover it."
"Bad breakup?" wonders the fairy. He looks over his shoulder at the lodge; a window opens and coffee pours itself and zooms over to the fairy's face to be sipped.
"Nothing so straightforward. I don't suppose I can convince you that it's my own fault if a bear gets me? They don't usually bother humans in trees if they don't smell food."
"Can't let you camp in this forest, mate, get a campsite."
"Book it online? I don't know, I work in the outdoors, I vacation in nice hotels with spas."
"I don't know how to do that. - I'm trying not to make any outrageous claims here but if you want me to explain I can, it's just going to sound crazy."
"I can't give you a ride to the mental hospital either. Ranger station has a phone?"
"...well, with it, I could call the mental hospital."
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