Thursday Afternoon - Warehouse district

[sparkinyou]

After class, Miles went back to his room and packed up some of his supplies and headed off into town. Part of it was to just get a feel for this town and learn where everything was. The more important part was to find a place where he could claim some wall space and just put up some art.

Coming from Brooklyn to a small town was a very weird experience. No tall buildings. Rickshaws instead of cars. No one rushing around and avoiding eye contact. For a guy who barely set foot out of Brooklyn, this might as well be an alien world.

It wasn't until he got to the warehouse area that he started to feel any kind of familiarity. It was pretty clear this area had a lot of use. He saw paint up on various buildings, some buildings were locked and there was one building with a lot of wood chucks inside. (Which really chucked wood. Miles thought that was just an expression.) It took a bit but he finally found one that was abandoned with no art work on it. Shrugging off his pack he pulled out his spray paint and went to work on something that reminded him of home

Hopefully the troopers weren't going to bust him for doing graffiti.

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[seriesofbaddecisions]

"Nice work."

Sabine had a whole fireworks thing to finish by tomorrow. There was so much time in her warehouse this week.

[sparkinyou]

Miles jumped a little before he saw who was talking and... Well she didn't look like a cop. "Thanks," he said with modest shrug. "It's going to be the Brooklyn Bridge. I... kind felt like I needed something from home if that makes any sense. I'm Miles."

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"Sabine," she said. "It makes sense. Great use of color."

But she was standing here in painted armor and mermaid hair so of course she'd say that.

[sparkinyou]

"Thanks, I tend to gravitate to ones that pop a little more," He said cleaning the nozzle of one of his cans. "And you're Astrid's roommate, right? I met her on Monday."

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"That's me. Over in the art room."

Seriously, the room was ridiculous and great.

[sparkinyou]

"She mentioned you guys have it all painted," Miles nodded. "I'd like to come by and see it sometime. I may also steal the idea for my own wall."

He gestured to some of the other warehouses around that had artwork. "Are any of these your work?"

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"Probably most of it, but not all," she answered. "Anything with the starbird on it, that's my signature. Anytime something big happens here I have to commemorate it."

Except when they all turned into toys. That had hit on issues she was not trying to revisit.

[sparkinyou]

"Something big?" Miles asked, warily. "Do I even want to know about what that might be?"

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"We just had some nightmare horse things that made us go through all of our worst memories. One time there were snow monsters. So there's a range," she said.

[sparkinyou]

"... Okay and we're sure that no one is slipping LSD into the water here or anything right?"

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"Nope, it's horribly real. You might also turn into an animal for no reason," she said. "Or he someone else for a weekend. Really keeps you on your toes."

[sparkinyou]

"I bet," Miles said sounding a little weary. "This place keeps getting stranger and stranger."

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"Pretty much. I'm guessing you're from someplace supposedly normal?" Sabine asked.

[sparkinyou]

"Well we don't have nightmare horses or crazy snowmen," he said with a shrug. "I mean there are some weird criminals in NYC but I've never seen one in person."

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"Weirder than... normal criminals, I guess?" she wondered.

[sparkinyou]

“Well some of them aren’t exactly human. Some were mutated by something I suppose. But I’ve only seen them on the news occasionally.”

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"Oh, then you're better on your way to understanding this place than most people."

Bright side!

[sparkinyou]

"I guess?" Miles responded though he seemed rather unsure about the whole thing. "But it's a little different. I've never seen these people up close. When I'm smack in the middle of an island like this... it's a bit different."

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"I guess," she allowed. "Anything you're really weirded out by yet?"

[sparkinyou]

"Well, one student is apparently a humanoid rat. Another student has a mountain lion for a pet and apparently sharks in hot tubs transmit STD's," Miles said off the top of his head. "Also apparently my roommate can transform herself into an 8 foot tall hero with longer hair. So. Yeah. There's a list of things."

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"Oh, you're Adora's roommate!" Sabine said, smiling.

Yes, that's what she took from that.

[sparkinyou]

Miles chuckled. "Yeah. She's actually pretty nice. Though I think she's more used to some of the more interesting facets of Fandom than I would be. She's from another planet."

He frowned a little. "Then again I guess just a normal earth would be pretty weird for her as well."

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"As someone from another planet myself, yes," Sabine confirmed.

[sparkinyou]

"Soooooo I'm guessing the armor and the hair are not a personal choice but from being where you are," Miles said slowly as he tried to process that he was meeting another person from yet another planet.

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"Oh, the armor is both, the hair is all me," Sabine said. "They're generally a little more traditional where I'm from."

[sparkinyou]

"So are you like Adora? Did you get stuck here?" Miles asked. "Or did you come here on purpose?"

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"Also both. I came here on purpose, but I haven't been able to get back to my specific universe yet," she said.

[sparkinyou]

"Oh, wow," Miles said, now looking sympathetic. "I'm sorry to hear that. It must be hard being cut off from your friends and family."

At least he could call home.