After crossing the doorway boundaries, Noit'e looked behind her and she saw the giant doorway that led to a void that she came from but on this side there was a plaque above the doorway written "sector Faheilm, multiverse S@T6-JO0", it was written with a type of conceptual language that allowed anybody to understand it.
Now on the other side of the doorway, Noit'e found herself on a seemingly normal underground train station, but with a few things different from a normal station.
The first thing was that there were shops selling a variety of things, from foods to holographic maps.
The second difference was an area that seemed to be designed for teleportation as many different beings were appearing from portals or tears in space on it, or just appearing out of thin air and just doing their own business.
The third was a variety of doorways with plaques on top of them that some led to different world, while others led to a void similar to the one she crossed.
The fourth was the proportions of the station, from the perspective of a human, it was very big, it was several times bigger than a human in fact.
And the most obvious difference was the people, they were anything but human, while some had humanoid shapes, all of them looked like some kind of monster that came out of a fictional story, but Noit'e already saw some of the species present here on the tavern, so she did not get that scared when she saw them again here.
As to avoid trouble she choose to sit on a bench close to the doorway she entered from, and she started looking around to see if there was a place to buy train tickets, but she found none, however, to her luck there was a a few holographic displays showing the trains that were going to pass in this station and their scheduled arrival, again written on that same conceptual language, and luckily the train that was going to the central sector was going to arrive in 14 minutes.
...
After 14 minutes of seeing many types of beings coming and going by about the station, a big bullet train came from somewhere, stopped and opened it's doors for the passenger to board and a voice from somewhere spoke announcing the train arrival.
"Train destined to the central sector arrived, train destined to the central sector arrived"
And that was Noit'e cue to board the massive train,for obvious reasons, the train had doors for both giant beings and "smaller" ones, when she was boarding the train she almost entered by the wrong doors, but immediately corrected herself and entered by the right ones, she quickly found a seat for herself close to the doors and waited for the ride to start.
Something interesting she noticed was that she couldn't see any of the bigger beings in the wagon she was in, in the wagon she found herself there was only rows of seats with stairs on the wagon inner sides that leads to different floors with the same rows of seats, but she did not explore the other floors and remained seated close to the door, but the curiosity got the better of her and she started looking deeper into the reality around her only to find that each entrance door of the train leads to a different layer of reality where the different passengers were seated, and to her surprise a few passengers looked back at her through the layers of reality and she just waved to them before she stopped looking and lowered her head
...
After 15 minutes since the train stopped a voice from somewhere sounded inside the wagon.
"Train departing from sector Faheilm towards central sector, train departing from sector Faheilm towards central sector"
Then the train doors closed and it started moving.
The train started moving slowly but the moment it entered the tunnel, Noit'e saw outside the window what lesser being would see as many colorful lights passing by at insane speed, but under her gaze she could see countless stars, worlds and even dimensions pass by the window quickly.
While she was distracted looking out the window a being that looked like Kylocrio and was sitting by her side touched her shoulder with one of its tentacles, startling her in the process.
The tentacled being spoke using the same language as Kylocrio, but Noit'e could sense that this being was a older male based on it's voice and a few details on it's body.
"Pardon the surprise, but are you new around here?"
Noit'e nodded in confirmation and the older man continued.
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"By any chance, are you going to the central sector? Or the central library to be more specific?"
She again nodded in confirmation, she noticed that he now was smiling even without a proper face as he continued speaking.
"If you are new around here, that means you is also new to the central sector, then I would like to invite you to pass by my restaurant at the central library, it is named "Kalakco", but I believe you don't have any "om credits", yes?"
Noit'e responded "yes" using soul speech, and upon hearing it the old man seemed to lose himself in old memories for a few moments before he recomposed himself.
"Ah, pardon me, it's just that I got a old friend that speaks your language."
"Where was I? Ah yes, to get some money you just need to go to the bank on the central library and sell them some item you got, you don't need to worry, they accept basically anything, so make sure to pass on my restaurant once you got some money"
Noit'e that was now Dy'a asked the old man " I don't know any establishment from around here or from the central sector, what kind of food do you serve at your restaurant?"
The old man seems to be a little surprised by this change but did not comment on it and answered her.
"Well, we sell quite the range of items, sweets, baked goods, meats, etc. but we make sure to sell them at affordable prices!" He put one its tentecles on it's "heart" and pointed another to the sky, which made Dy'a giggle a little.
He continued: "But what are the thing you normally eat or have eaten? Just so I can get a good idea of what you like."
" I normally eat human food, but i had eaten [katra] and [jake] before" Dy'a answered normally but with some excitement on the latter part.
The old man was surprised by this answer and reacted as if she told him that she had been starving for 100 years straight, with a pity filled gaze, he touched her shoulder with one of its tentacles and gave to her a card that he took out from somewhere.
"here take this, it's a discount card, just give it to the waiter when you go pay the bill and you get 75% off. When you go to my restaurant for the first time just call the waiter and say that you would like to talk to "Kalakco" and i will come to give you some recommendations. Ah, I almost forgot to ask, but what is your name? "
Dy'a answered "Dy'a" and then returned to being Noit'e that also answered with "Noit'e", the old man seemed to approve of their names for some reason, he did not comment on her names but only talked about the train journey and some more.
"We are almost on the central library, the train will pass by two stations and then we reach there. Wait a moment... while i find it... ah, here it is!" he took something from nowhere and presented to her what looked like a purple [jake], she hesitantly took it and after examining it for a bit, she put on her mouth, and to her delight the moment it entered her mouth it melted and she was welcomed by what seemed like a coffee and chocolate taste, and to the surprise of the old man her eyes flashed with strange symbols that would drive a mortal mad and she in fact tried to recompose herself quickly trying to hide her childish reactions, but she was to slow and the old man saw it and gave a deep laugh.
"Hohoho, you are quite a cute child, you remember me of my 4º grandchild, i sure hope someday you two meet and have some fun together, and if you are interested, central library have quite a few recreational areas to pass some time, so i bet you wont be bored while there"
Noit'e was thinking on saying that she wasn't a child, but after some thought she choose to remain quiet, as from his point of view she even might be a newborn, she believed so mostly because she didn't know how his species perceived time, so they could be a million years old and still be a child. And his sweet bribes also helped in maintaining Noit'e quiet and focused on listening.
In a very typical fashion for a older person, the old man spent the rest of the ride telling stories of his past about a farm he had and stories about his grandchildren, and Noit'e was surprisingly listening with attention to his stories as other cultures fascinated her, specially if they came from alien beings such as the old man.
After a few stories here and there the ride took around 47 minutes, but it would have taken 12 minutes if the trained hadn't stopped for 15 minutes in each station on the way.
When they arrived at the central station a voice hang inside the wagon.
"Train arrived at the central station, train arrived at the central station"
When Noit'e and the old man exited the train, she noticed that this station was like the first one, but more decorated and more spacious. And obviously with a higher flow of "people".
The old man guided her to a doorway that had a plaque written " sector galacta-0, central library"
Once they crossed over, they were on a city square brimming with different beings going about their days. Getting Noit'e 's attention, the old man pointed to a tall building close by that had "Bank" written with that conceptual language above it's doors and said:
"Look there, that's the bank I talked about"
And he also pointed to another smaller building and said" That's my restaurant, if you need me I will be there. Unfortunately that's were we separate, i hope you have a nice stay here, take care" waved goodbye to her and went to his restaurant.
She waved back to him and started looking around and to her surprise there were quite the quantity of humans wearing a variety of clothes and with a variety of origins around the plaza, some even were wearing clothes you would see in chinese cultivation novels and comics, a a few were wearing futuristic clothes that had holographic logos and details.
She didn't approach them recklessly and focused on the bank, she discretely walked to the bank, and the closer she got, the more she noticed that just like the station, the bank was massive in size with doors to both bigger and "smaller" beings. Another detail about the bank was that despite all the buildings around the plaza varying in style, the bank had more of a minimalist and futuristic style to it, but Noit'e was not paying much attention to it and instead was focused on getting her money and going to the library to learn a bit about her names and probably to learn a bit about this whole bigger picture she got herself.
Once she arrived at the appropriate doors she slowly pushed them open and entered the bank