OOM: New York City with Thirteen
Jan. 31st, 2010 10:43 pmIt's another bright spring day, and Sunshine and Thirteen are off to take advantage of Thirteen's vacation time in a way that precludes her being called into work. New York City will be plus two young women looking to have fun, today.
Sunshine, for her part, is quickly in awe. She'd never really been anywhere outside of New Arcadia, except to the ocean a few times, and New Arcadia, among the top ten cities in the nation in Rae's world, would be back to being a complete parochial backwater of a city in this world.
"Oh wow," she says, looking up at the gleaming buildings. "I've never seen a city so large."
Sunshine, for her part, is quickly in awe. She'd never really been anywhere outside of New Arcadia, except to the ocean a few times, and New Arcadia, among the top ten cities in the nation in Rae's world, would be back to being a complete parochial backwater of a city in this world.
"Oh wow," she says, looking up at the gleaming buildings. "I've never seen a city so large."
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Date: 2010-02-01 03:45 am (UTC)"It is a bit daunting, isn't it?"
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Date: 2010-02-01 03:48 am (UTC)"It's all so clean and gleaming."
She doesn't feel like bringing up what her world's New York City was reduced to.
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Date: 2010-02-01 03:50 am (UTC)"I'm sure you'll have a blast."
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Date: 2010-02-01 04:07 am (UTC)"I'm sure I will," she grins, cheerful in the bright sunlight and in the prospect of a day exploring an unknown city in a world not her own. "It's so busy!"
Even the most bustling of her world's cities were never this huge seething mass of humanity.
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Date: 2010-02-01 04:16 am (UTC)"So, where would you like to see first? Zoo, or the Museum?"
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Date: 2010-02-01 04:36 am (UTC)The New Arcadia zoo hadn't been very good even before the Wars.
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Date: 2010-02-01 04:41 am (UTC)"Great! I'm sure you'll love it."
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Date: 2010-02-01 05:27 am (UTC)"We'll have to take the subway."
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Date: 2010-02-01 05:45 am (UTC)Being underground blurred the lines between night and day.
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Date: 2010-02-01 05:48 am (UTC)Quickly grabbing two tokens, she spots that the subway is already at the station, and she tugs Sunshine along a little quicker.
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Date: 2010-02-02 02:51 am (UTC)"Though I can keep up without you having to drag me, mother," she says, dry.
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Date: 2010-02-02 03:19 am (UTC)"Sorry, just...didn't want to lose you in all this."
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Date: 2010-02-02 03:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-02 03:25 am (UTC)"Good to know."
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Date: 2010-02-02 03:35 am (UTC)The subway is interesting. There are so many different people, many of whom wouldn't look out of place at Charlie's, or at the side window for leftovers at closing, for that matter. Sunshine could feel herself being underground, and the weight of the earth above her, between her and the sky.
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Date: 2010-02-02 03:55 am (UTC)Thirteen isn't anywhere near as bothered as Sunshine is at being underground, and she relaxes back in her seat as the train shoots off.
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Date: 2010-02-02 04:05 am (UTC)Sunshine isn't bothered about being underground. She's merely... aware. The last time she was underground was when she dropped in o-... visited Con's earthplace. Even then, she could feel that they were underground, in that place of darkness, lit only by the gigantic fireplace shaped like a great maw, with the flames lighting the eyes set into the mantle above it.
But that dark, echoing place is nothing like this well-lit, noisy, human construction.
This manner of transportation is almost certainly safer than that which Sunshine took to and from Con's earthplace, anyway.
"Which stop's the zoo?" she asks, pointing to the subway map over the nearest exit.
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Date: 2010-02-02 04:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-02 04:25 am (UTC)"I'd heard of Central Park, but had only seen it in pictures." From before the Wars, of course.
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Date: 2010-02-02 04:29 am (UTC)"Well now you'll be able to see it first hand."
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Date: 2010-02-02 04:46 am (UTC)But not at home, of course.
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Date: 2010-02-02 04:49 am (UTC)"Got to see New York with a pretty girl on your arm, bragging doesn't come much better than that."
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Date: 2010-02-02 04:54 am (UTC)"I could use more vacations."
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Date: 2010-02-02 05:32 am (UTC)(no subject)
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