How do you get a train card?

They sell them at the convenience store, which has been observed to take cash.

Okay she can purchase one then!

People titter at her a little - maybe it's hideously marked up from this seller? - but now she has a train card!

Yeah sure she feels a bit less bad about counterfeiting money now but still not good about it, she will want to ask Savo how to best navigate that.

Train!

If she stares at the map long enough she can figure out which train to get on going which way from this town, which seems to consider itself a small town even though it is about half the population of Pittsburgh.

...huh. Maybe their planet is bigger and/or they have more people.

She takes the train.

The train is crowded, with narrow seats and double-decker cars. It goes real fast.

Good thing she doesn't have her wings, then. She has a small-ish backpack she keeps between her legs and a book to pass the time.

...but she'll take a nap, first, because she's just spent a long time walking.

It's not a loud train qua train but people do talk on it. Nobody talks to her.

Good then she doesn't have to lie. She doesn't really like it.

She has to change trains! Does she wake up in time?

Yeah, she had coffee, it was only a short nap.

Now she is on a new train. An old yellow lady sits next to her. "Hello there."

"Hello."

"What's your name? I'm Torga."

...she should've thought of a name. Well, her name was unusual when she was human... "I'm Kaede. It's nice to meet you."

"That's a funny name, what language is it from?"

"No idea, I don't even know if it's from a language, mom might've just been eccentric and I never got the opportunity to ask."

"Huh. What do you do, Kaede?"

"Nothing, at the moment—or, I write, but I haven't really got anything yet—" Shrug. "How about you?"

Wow she's bad at this whole "pretending to be shy" thing huh.

"I'm the hiring manager for the provincial museum service!"

"Oh, that's cool! I don't think I've ever visited, what's it like?"

"What, none of them? You at least have to see the museum of Voan history and the museum of ancient art."

"I may have gone to a couple when I was little but I don't remember. Those sound cool, though, especially ancient art."