The Park: Friday Morning

[single_man_tear]

One moment Dean had been sitting on a bar stool and the next he was standing in a children's sandbox. He looked down at his feet just in time to see the strange runes imprinted into the sand stop glowing.

"Okay," he said after blinking a couple of times. "Apparently I'm supposed to go now."

Looking around he saw a familiar duffel bag and a cursory examination showed that it was packed with most of his possessions. Another check of his pockets was his wallet with cash and a credit card that Charlie had set up for him and Sam ages ago.

And of course there was a set of car keys which just made him smile.

"All right then," he said aloud to himself, as he kicked the sand around the sandbox to cover the imprinted runes.. "Let's see what this place is all about."

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[unusual_sith]

Lana had decided to come out to the park to practice today, so she was in black boots and grey leggings and a tunic, her lightsaber clipped to her belt. She paused and waved to the new person, though.

"Oh, hello. I haven't seen you around before." She had a British Kaasian accent.

Oh, and yellow eyes, but surely that wouldn't be a problem, right?

[single_man_tear]

The yellow eyes did give him pause but he's already met two aliens and was almost attacked by a superhero and he hadn't even left the park yet.

"That's because I'm new to the island," Dean said politely. "Which apparently everyone knows because everybody knows everybody. Anyway, I'm Dean."

He held out his hand for a handshake.

"I swear to God there are more friendly people here than anywhere else I've been."

[unusual_sith]

"Call it a combination of relief and self-preservation. We tend to stick together here because we don't always get it back home." She shook his hand firmly. "Lana Beniko. Good to meet you. Has anybody given you the welcome speech yet?"

[single_man_tear]

"Sabine gave me some of the low down, and I already knew about this place being a nexus," he said with a shrug. "I'm just a guy from Earth who hunts monsters so meeting aliens is new to me. I also know not to bother the zombies at Caritas."

[unusual_sith]

Lana laughed. "Oh, good. At least you're not one of the people in denial about all of it. I'm from the same galaxy as Sabine, but a few thousand years before her time."

[single_man_tear]

Ah. Alien. Not a Nephilim or Archangel. Dean was going to wonder why that weird thought made him feel better.

"A few thousand years?" Dean asked for clarification. "So this isn't just realities it's a time...

Hang on. He'd think of the word for it.

"thing as well?"

Nope. Didn't think of the word.

[unusual_sith]

Eh, it got the message across.

"Sometimes. I'm teaching with a friend from a few hundred years before my time, too. It can get a bit odd even just here - I went to school here, left, and came back a few decades later, only it had only been a couple years here. And there are people from Earth here from all different times, too. The local year is 2024; is that close to your time?"

[single_man_tear]

"That sounds right?" Dead said cautiously. "While I'm from Earth I was stashed in another place where time works differently. Last I knew it was 2020 except for my small jaunt to the 1970s."

He shrugged. "It's all good as long as there's still beer, whiskey and cheeseburgers."

[unusual_sith]

"There are definitely those," Lana said with a grin. "I enjoy a good whiskey myself, and I know Luke's has burgers. I can't speak to the quality of the beer, though."

Also Lana liked good whiskey.

[single_man_tear]

"Oh well then we may be at odds because I only drink rot gut," Dean joked. "But that's the second time today I've heard about Luke's so it must be pretty good."

[unusual_sith]

"Oh, no!" Lana laughed. "Tell you what - pick a day and a bar, and your first shot's on me as long as it's good whiskey. I'll see if I can't convert you. And Luke's is the diner in town. That way." She pointed. "I don't eat there often, but the food's pretty good."

[single_man_tear]

"Well I hear Wednesdays at Caritas is the time to go. I look forward to you trying to change my mind," Dean said with a chuckle.

[unusual_sith]

"Wednesday at Caritas it is," Lana said. "That's the busy night; it'll be good for meeting people. And if you need anything, the bartender, Summer, is good to know."