Giving birth is awesome. All the points, all the stars, she is seriously tempted by a new career path here. Which does have the advantage of being compatible with several other career paths. She's glad she had the kind of twins that cooperated with coming out the traditional way; she's pretty sure they don't let you do the other one without drugs, maybe even if your dom said to.

She kind of wishes the hospital watches would hit her with a switch like normal already, even though at the moment it would not get to be fun, because the alternative is just being able to tell that they really want to. She has some suspicion that the reason she and Genna have been left alone right now is that someone is hoping that if Genna is left alone with her long enough Genna'll change her mind and let them hit her with a switch.

Anyway, babies. Outside and not inside. At some point that has got to stop feeling like a real novelty, but at the moment - seriously, babies. Her body made them and everything. Humans do not think enough about how crazy being human is.

Nobody is giving signs of needing to eat more right now (more stuff her body just makes! For real!), so she gets back to learning to tell the twins apart while they're dressed. There's Crescent Moon, there's Tuesday. They're not going to have the colored markers forever.

And then something large and strange and not quite in real colors appears in the room and swallows them all.

They randomly appear on a rooftop, standing above a huge courtyard. They must be some ridiculous distance above the ground; there are skyscrapers all around. It's dark enough that it's tough to see anything, but the full moon and some rays of light coming from skyscraper windows lets the two of them at least see the roof they're standing on under them.

...Ok you got her that is weirder than human baby production.

Anything around where the obvious thing to do would be to get the twins out of the way and throw herself in front of it? Current verdict: no.

She somehow tried to shield both Light-coming and Anais and the twins with her body. (She didn't even enlist - who does she think she is, Special Agent Spring?). For a moment it feels like this has to be Anais's household (-Anais's former household), somehow. That doesn't in reality make sense on any level.

Light-coming somehow slept through that. (Yes, slept, yes, she's breathing). 

The twins were not asleep and they have noticed that Something Happened and they don't like it!

She'll take - Moon, she thinks - from Anais, quickly. She hasn't held the twins much yet but it's probably not very different.

And she'll try to calm down Tuesday. And look around. What exactly are they standing on? Is the fact that they're outside and also in hospital clothing about to become a problem? Does there seem to be anyone or anything around that's noticed them?

They're standing on top of some kind of rubbery plastic. It's warm and soft and feels amazing to the touch, but it's also very cold and dark. And it's probably only going to get even colder. Nobody seems to have noticed them or to react in any way; someone daring to look down might be able to see a few people walking around on the streets, far, far below the mysterious group on the skyscraper.

It's not that cold, closer to chilly. That's still too cold. 

If they were going to land on a roof at least it's the kind of roof that's somewhat intended to have people on it. Unless that's meant to be crueler.

Tuesday settles down. Moon has also stopped crying. She gives Tuesday to Genna. "Gonna go look over."

They're in a city, it makes sense for Anais to be the one to do that. If something is going to happen it's not really likely to be someone suddenly attacking just whoever walks some feet away. Some part of her still doesn't like it. She takes Tuesday, carefully. Tries to somehow watch the twins and Light-coming and Anais walking to the railing at the same time.

She looks over the railing. Streets, handy to know this place has those too. And those figures down there do look like something that looks like people at this distance, and not, say, giant crabs.

Also they are definitely not getting down this way.

She walks back. Takes Tuesday again. Relays these pieces of information.

"Whoever put us here has very good aim."

She's looking at the buildings and the sky. "I think here's where Dr. Z's girl says the real good aim is we're not in the sky or inside the planet, even if no one's counting space. ...Think they both have the point in this one though."

(It keeps hitting her somewhere else - she hasn't seen the show in years, she hasn't thought about it. Hadn't thought about it since she would have laughed with everyone else.

Does Anais think she'd hit her? Does Anais think she might have hit her if Anais had just said it? It's not really a real question. It shouldn't be. But - she could, now. Any time she just decided to.)

That's not the point right now. "If they want us to think about their aim -" she doesn't know how to finish that.

"We're going to- we should figure out what to do right now, first."

"Good point, officer." She breaks off in the middle of trying to see if she recognizes constellations. She's almost sure she had more astronomy than Genna, but it was never exactly her top priority in classes.

Speaking of recognizing things and roofs intended to have people on them - how is this roof on obvious places where such people would be going in and out to the building?

There aren't any familiar constellations in the sky, it just looks like the tars are spread out in a completely random hodgepodge. Looking around does reveal a handle in the floor; anyone trying to lift it would see that it's unexpectedly light, giving a faint view of a corridor down some stairs.

Even if she kept looking, she probably doesn’t have enough astronomy to be sure, but she’s definitely not seeing anything she recognizes. She tells Genna both these things.

It won’t occur to her right away to check the floor (ground?), but she’ll get there when nothing else looks to be around. …That is definitely great news but not exactly ideal right now, is there by any chance a floor elevator anywhere along with the floor stairs?

(She doesn’t know more astronomy than she picked up here or there. She looks at the sky briefly anyway.)

There is, barely visible against the dark night, a relatively wide room on one corner of the ceiling. Stepping closer reveals a button that's similarly tough to see in the darkness; it sure looks like an elevator button.

That sure looks like an elevator button but they've sure been dumped on a mysterious roof by what didn't look like it belonged in the laws of physics, so she's going to press it and check.

(There's no reason to think pressing whatever that is is more of a risk than stepping on any next part of the roof. She still in some way wants to tell Anais not to touch it. She doesn't; doesn't tell Anais to stop and come back.)

Eventually, an elevator makes its way up. The door opening and revealing the blindingly white interior blinds Anais for a moment. It's quite a bit larger and more spacious than a normal elevator, that's for sure. There are just 2 rows of buttons on the elevator, one for each digit; it looks like they're in a building 60-something stories in height.

She pressed the button, but she is aware that she is (sadly) very injurable and that that is currently undesirable for multiple extra reasons. So she'd also stepped to the side, in case the looks-like-an-elevator-button did not call an elevator or called the kind of movie elevator that people with guns get out of.

She's still a bit blinded. She blinks. Well that is some high contrast lighting but it does look like high contrast lighting in an elevator. She steps partially in, looks at the side one can't see from outside. Can't read the digits, or whatever else the writing by the buttons might be. Good to know. She can notice that there aren't enough buttons for the number of floors she'd expect from that look down. Maybe they like their floors with very high ceilings, or part of the building is private. Or the other way around and the roof is private.

She walks back to Genna again.