Private Finished Curiosity on the Ocean

"Nothing worth stealing, and every now and then people that need a place to stay show up, so I just leave it open. Fairly safe place anyway. Nothing in my house's worth dealing with magical cops for." Adelaida had some wealth in her accounts, but few material possessions to work with, so she was comfortable enough leaving everything open.

She led the way down the city streets. The walk through the night was always fairly pleasant, and she knew the roads well. Where most people were resting, Adelaida was typically still awake and mucking about somewhere.

"Portals are deep in the heart of the city. Connects this place to other places with magic and advanced science. Place's a bit weird, far as I know we kind of exist I think in between planes, so we're overlapping with others which lets magic happen. Far as I can tell anyway," she said, walking casually down the city roads.

Come to think of it, Adelaida never actually bothered finding out who was the top dog on the islands. She'd just accepted the way the island was as fact, and that was that. "Not sure actually who runs the place, but I assume a few gods were involved in making it. Amount of power needed to keep it running makes me think probably a god or so and so's in charge."

She led through the busier districts of town, past the museums, past her favorite restaurants that she briefly looked at to see if she could get takeout later. Without much of a care in the world, she picked up the pace, trying to see if they could make it faster.

There, in the distance, she could see the crowds around the portal hub. The hub was always busy, even in the middle of the night, connecting the island to the world outside.

"It's over there, if you're interested in checking it out."

"Not a big believer in gods myself. Far as I'm concerned, 'god' just means a lot of raw power. Nothing else. The ones I met, I just treated the same as everybody else." It was a train of thought that nearly caused trouble at times, but she wasn't going to change herself for that. In her eyes, if being herself caused problems, then that was just the way it was. "Enough super-strong people around here that you get desensitized."

Adelaida noticed that Besom was attracting quite a bit of attention, and smiled. Sometimes, it was amusing just how different people here on the island were.

She pointed at one of the portals through the crowd. "I came through that one when I first came here. What's 'wrong' with me wasn't due to that, so for me, I think it's safe. There's enough activity coming through the portals as well that you eventually just start looking at it like a bus stop or a train station, just with a different vehicle."

"Plenty of places to go if you want to. You could go just about anywhere... you could go home, or you could set off on an adventure."

Adelaida hadn't personally used the portals ever since she arrived. She was content to not go near the things after her own mishap with portal work.

Instead, she let her companion have their fill of the portal hub. It wasn't of much interest to Adelaida, but to them, maybe it held more allure.

"When you're done taking a look, just let me know what else you want to see and we'll pop by."

"For what it's worth, you've taken it in stride. Pretty calm for someone shunted through dimensions," Adelaida said. The first time she picked someone out of the water, someone who'd fallen there from dimensional travel, they were calm too. At first she dismissed it as Ali being her, but now it was starting to be a pattern.

Maybe I should get a bigger boat.

She thought of what clean could possibly indicate. Maybe it meant a lack of people?

"Park usually has a few people around at this time of day, if you like nature. Marina too, if you're into waterfront dining."