"You too!"  She tucks her scrap paper back in her bag, readjusts the coat so it's less lumpy, and heads out.  

She doesn't especially recognize any of the trees, but if she'd landed in Andoran or Tian Xia she wouldn't really expect to either.  She'll keep an eye on the woods in case of beasts and stick by the road- oh, she probably should've mentioned to the school janitor that she's an adventurer, he might be worried... no, if they don't have wizards here he probably just wouldn't believe her.

The first part of the walk is through the woods. The most threatening thing she encounters is a possum that plays dead in front of her.

Then the vast bulk of Highway 88, the road she's on (Eola) going up and up a large hill that turns into a bridge over a huge road with hundreds of cars and trucks running along in either direction. It's very loud, and smells kind of unpleasantly smoggy.

Then a complicated road crossing. Then some more woods. Then a couple of businesses.

And then she is walking past a large building complex labelled 'Metea Valley High School'. It extends back quite a ways; You could probably fit twenty houses or more into the place. There's a sign that says ENJOY THE SUMMER! There are people playing some sort of sport in the fields out behind it, but the place is otherwise quiet and empty.

Khalida has never seen a possum before; she watches it curiously for a moment or two but when it doesn't do anything more interesting, she resists the temptation to poke it with a stick and skirts around it instead. 

Tromp tromp tromp.  She is so prepping Mount tomorrow now that she doesn't need to fill up on Endures.

She has time to do a lot of thinking, even taking a break to stare at the cars for a while.  (That is so many, apparently Dana was serious when she said everyone needed one?)

She's got a place to stay and food for as long as she can make herself useful and/or not annoying; she should probably look into ways to earn local money before that runs out, she's got some silver on her but no idea how far it'll stretch.  (Which will depend on whether she can find a trustworthy moneychanger... which is probably a lot harder without Abadarans around, huuuuh.)  What those ways are she has no idea, even if she gave laundry wizarding another try no one here is going to know what it is or believe her when she says she can do it, and quite possibly they've got machinery for laundry just like they do for dishes.

She's- probably not getting home, at least not anytime soon, not when they don't have arcane magic here and only the one Church, their Plane Shifts are probably all spoken for already for church purposes.  (And even if they sell some, that reduces to the problem of local money, subtype: absurdly huge pile.)  Unless whatever landed her here decides just as unpredictably to take her back.

It might be just one of those weird things that happen sometimes, but- whatever did it gave her a Share Language while they were at it.  (Which might wear off at some point?  She should see if she can get a fix on it from the inside and figure it out, she's pretty sure it lasts longer than Comprehend but not whether it's hours per half-circle or days or what.)  And didn't drop her in the ocean or in the snow with her Endures all spent or whatever.  Which implies there might be a reason.  If it's some archmage or fey or something doing things for Mysterious Fey Reasons she'll just have to watch for more clues, but if it's Nethys... there's one obvious guess for why Nethys might send one of His people somewhere with no arcane magic.

Hey Nethys?  What the actual fuck?  Why me?  She is not qualified to be this world's Aroden!!!  She is second circle!  And not even all the way a priestess!

But... she does have a copy of the Book of Magic in her bag.  She's never tried teaching before, maybe she'll be terrible at it, but she can at least make a copy to leave behind here once she can afford enough paper.  (Maybe the library will pay her to copy their books?  That seems like the sort of thing it'd be harder to make a mechanism do, you can make clocks small enough to fit in a pocket but they just go around in circles...)  ...maybe two copies, one for the library if they'll take something that's not in English, and one for the church who'll have people who can cast Comprehend Languages, that way she can get it copied out in a day of Scrivening rather than translate the whole thing, in case it wasn't Nethys and whatever it was tosses her somewhere else before she can finish.

The next bridge that Eola road crosses over goes over a large train yard. An engine is currently pushing along about a hundred cars. They're about the size of the big trucks, not the small cars. Some of them are boxy. Some of them are rounded. Some of them are open top with huge piles of coal in them. It's gone by the time she finishes crossing.

Not so long after that is a row of what seems like more normal shops- A bunch of different pubs and restaurants, mostly, but also a 'nail spa', a barber, a book store, and a Radio Shack. They're all in one long row of brick facades, with a sizable parking lot out front. There's another truck here, this one is COCA COLA, and a guy is unloading a bunch of drinks from it for the pizza place.

Soon after that the road changes to a two-lane affair without any proper sidewalks, just a strip of dirt and grass. Over a short hill for much of this stretch is a neighborhood of houses. Each house is big, and has its own large yard that they mostly don't seem to be doing much with. Some of them have fences, or playgrounds, or patios, or a single lonely tree. She passes a barbecue cookout where loud music is playing and a bunch of people are talking, dancing, and drinking.

And finally, here's the library! It's actually a whole 'community center'. There are sports courts and multipurpose rooms of various kinds around, too, and a sign pointing the way to a park trail.

The library is at the far end. It's humble as Earth libraries go, but past the reception desk and open area at the front, there are twelve long rows of bookshelves on two separate sides on the ground floor, and a wide set of stairs up to a second floor where about twice that many bookshelves are located. Signs helpfully point out that the first floor is mostly CHILDREN and FICTION, while NON-FICTION is upstairs.

Apparently people decorate their nails here enough to have a whole place for just doing that- is she being immodest by local standards, Dana didn't say anything but maybe it's rude to call attention to it- she stares in the window of the bookstore for a while but there's no moneychanger here and if the public library really lets anyone read their books for free, she needs to head there first, it's not that much farther.  (The Radio Shack is mostly just bewildering, she doesn't have enough context for most of the things in the window to make any sense, but she does file away a couple more tasks they apparently have mechanisms for.)

Everything is so big, here.  And it's not just the things she's seeing, some kind of machinery made those rails and all these roads, one of those coal cars holds multiple times what #11 uses in a month and it's going somewhere, the houses are far enough apart for truck gardens but clearly not doing it...  oh wow whatever they're roasting smells good, she should maybe have had more than one set of sandwich crackers before she got distracted.  

And then:  BOOKS!  This is SO MANY BOOKS!  

She stands stock still for a few moments just inside the entrance, just staring around- there's so many, she couldn't read all of these in a year, where does she even begin?

"Can I help you find something, hun?"

Either librarians are sneaky or she was quite distracted. The librarian in question is a slighy pudgy middle aged woman wearing a sweater and slacks and eyeglasses.

Yeah she was definitely distracted, but she only jumps a little.  "Hi yes hello, I'm looking for books on machinery and germs and chemicals and electricity?  And topology if you have that here?  Can you really read all of them for free, some guys from the school said so, um, Oswego School?"

"It's actually free to check books out if you have a library card. We just charge you fines if you return them late or damage them, and you need proof of residency to get one. But you don't need one to read within the library, that's right. That's quite a set of topics, is it for a school project?"

"Oh no, I'm new here, I'm from really really far away, and I have a lot to catch up on- I'm living at the church right now, the big one by the pond, I don't have proof with me- oh do you have a telephone!  If you can telephone the church you can ask Dana- anyway yes I'd like to read in the library either way, thank you,"  she's still talking very fast.

"-There's a lot of churches around, and a lot of ponds, but that's not important. Hmm. Why don't we sit you down with an encyclopedia, lots of summaries and general knowledge, and something to write down questions with, and I can help you look for books on more specific questions once you have them does that sound nice?"

"An ency- Oh!  Yes, yes please, an encyclopedia sounds perfect."

Then she can have a ballpoint pen and a piece of notebook lined scratch paper and a study carrel in one of the reading rooms and a few of the volumes of Grolier Family Encyclopedia, published by Grolier Incorporated. Specifically, volumes 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15. Out of 22. The others are checked out right now.

Lacking a better way to choose, she'll collect volume 3 (Bat-Byz) since it's the first of the available ones and bring it over to the carrel, get distracted for a bit trying to figure out how the ballpoint pen works, Prestidigitate the ink off her fingers, and get started.

Copyright a string of letters that doesn't look pronounceable, no part may be reproduced or transmitted in any form- oh, so they do have book-copying mechanisms- presumably the publisher gave the library permission to share it?  It starts with a long article about bats but she doesn't know enough about Golarion's bats to know if these are any different, assorted places including two named Bath, followed by an article on the concept of baths (wow this book is thorough) that lists a lot of what are maybe local historical periods, a noble family one of whom was a notorious necromancer, oooh they have machinery for exploring the deep ocean (two different articles for bathyscaphe and bathysphere although they're not particularly clear on the difference, more people and places she has no context for.... aha a long article on the "battery".

A battery is, apparently, a device for turning a chemical reaction into electricity, so far so good, but after that she's very quickly out of her depth.  "Electrons" flow between two metals through a light bulb, okay at least the sourceless knowledge is giving her what that is... she starts skimming, writing down words to look up next (they have mechanisms for shaving?  why?), and gets over to the next page before she realizes she doesn't know the order of this alphabet.  (Seriously???)

Okay.  This is fine.  She's fine.  This book is organized alphabetically, she just has to go through and write down the order of the second letter, B is going to be close to the beginning, it is not impossible.  (This works until she gets distracted by the article on 'bearings', but at least that one doesn't spawn a dozen new questions.)