Chapter 6: Randomization: Pages 55 - 68 Summary

The Crossings is a Hypergate Facility that is well known throughout the billion homeworlds for its sheer size and elegant architecture. All around them are kiosks, signs and stalls that she can't understand, and beings of all descriptions are hopping, leaping, walking, crawling, oozing or sliding towards unknown destinations. There are very few hominids and Dairine can see none that are actually humanoid. The alien gives her a quickly pointed rundown of where things are, wishes her a good trip and a good death, and then stepping forward, it simply disappears. She stands still, too fearful to move at first, but finally overcomes the feeling and begins to move again. Finally, she asks the computer whether it is safe to sit against the wall, and it replies affirmative, so she makes her way there. On the way...