The Strange City
They'd been walking for hours.
This new Reality seemed the most normal of any Tom had visited so far. Aside from a few oddities, it wasn't much different from his hometown in Earthen Reality. One of those differences was the style of the buildings and the clothes of the citizens. It was slight, but everything here seemed a little more elaborate, a little fancier. Many businesses had huge fountains in front with complex displays of shooting water; the moldings on the houses had carved pictures of animals and trees. The men wore fancy dark suits and greased back their hair, and the women wore dresses with white gloves pulled clear past their elbows. Also, an eerie, operatic soprano voice sang from speakers throughout the town.
Another odd thing: the place appeared to only have left turns—at least off the road on which they currently walked.