Gwen listened carefully as he rolled through the explanation. It didn't all make perfect sense to her, but then again, none of this then. And would her new friend be able to make any sense of what she'd left behind in LA? Not likely. And while leaving Alien City to go back to what seemed like a futuristic John Wayne movie didn't exactly appeal to her, what she was anxious to go back to was not much better.

"So, what, you don't think I should give this place a chance?" Gwen asked, her smile playful. She took another gander out the passenger window. Some of the architecture of the buildings reminded her of the exotic designs of foreign places, and some of it looked like nothing she'd ever seen. "Whoever built this hamster cage had good taste."