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"Thank you," Cress said to Corren as she was pulled out the door by Aya. She helped push the bike out of the bush and sat on the seat where Aya had patted it. "Rubers? Is that like dollars?" Cress asked as they took off, holding on tight. She could barely believe that her arm was truly healed. She tested it, bending it and wiggling her fingers, holding her arm up as though it were some trick of the light. It looked healed, fully mended, there wasn't any pain and yet... Cress did not truly trust it. Perhaps she was still in shock from her fall? Or maybe she had died and was in some strange parallel universe? Could it be she had been hit by lightning and had died on impact? Or maybe she truly was in a coma in the hospital and this was her mind attempting to compensate?
"I'm not a blossom, I don't know what that is." Cress mumbled in contemplation. As they floated above what Aya continued to call the Rubble Tier, all Cress saw were shades of brown, black, and gray. It was with stark clarity that she realized there were no plants, there was nothing growing down here. "Where do you guys get food from? I don't see any gardens or places that could even sustain one." No wonder they called it the Rubble Tier, for all intents and purposes, the entire space looked as though it were covered in dirt. Cress shook her head, she couldn't focus on that now. If her cousin was here, she had to find her and figure out a way to get back home. "So you don't learn... then how do you know how much your money is worth? Or science? How do you guys do anything?"
Cress was baffled by this blatent mistreatment of fully humans. How was this legal? Aya showed her the factory where she worked, a greasy looking building. "What do you guys make?" Cress inquired, wondering if she even wanted to know or if it was another thing that would just make her feel sad and sorry. Aya told her to look up and Cress did, her eyes widening. "Two... suns..." she trailed off in realization. They weren't on Earth, they weren't even in the Milky Way anymore. "Aya, do you know what galaxy we're in? Do you know of a place called the Milky Way?" Cress asked, her heart throbbing in her chest. This couldn't be real and yet, the pain she had experienced earlier was very real.
She pinched herself, just to make certain, but no, she was really here, in this strange place, in a world she did not recognize. Cress's hands began to shake, the panic settling in her stomach. Far from home, with no way to get back... Cress felt as though she suddenly could not breathe. Was this a panic attack? Cress hadn't had one since leaving the hospital. She knew what it felt like, but right now, she couldn't think about the coping methods she had learned.