You end up in the seedier part of town.

You trek through the downtown streets, passing now-closing shops and now-opening clubs, all of them unfamiliar to you. You try desperately to recognize a street name or a landmark to cobble together some form of mental map, but find nothing…

You thought you were taking a shortcut but none of this is familiar. You were supposed to go up the road, take a quick turn, make sure to pass the grocery store and- and then continue on towards your peaceful, little neighborhood but… this isn’t right at all! You hardly ever come out towards where Liz lives, so it might not have been the best to try and save time… Maybe you let your mind wander? Maybe everything just looks different at night? You don’t know how you ended up in such a place…

The size of it all is a bit… oppressing as you spin around, taking it all in. And while downtown isn’t what you would call a metropolis - the size and the scale nowhere near that of a much larger city - there’s still enough sizeable buildings with neon signs to give it that distinct air of urban nightlife. You heard there were a few attempts to “gentrify” it, to make it more “upper-class”, but apparently it never took.

The all-too-common scenario you’ve come to know from movies and crime shows starts to loop in your mind as you continue walking: the lone woman wandering the city streets at night, preying eyes watching her with devilish intent as she goes down a dark alleyway… it was fiction before, but now…