"…What—?"

The words catch in your throat as the world around them shifts in a single blink. One moment they were tending to their own tasks—walking through a forest, fixing equipment, brewing potions, talking to someone or simply walking—and the next…the scenery is different. Hard. Flat. Cold.

Towering buildings surround them like impossible stone giants. Metal beasts roar (Car) past on black roads and honking. People flow in every direction, dressed in strange fabrics, holding glowing rectangles (Smart phones), talking to no one and everyone at once.

For a moment, nobody notices. Then someone screams. Another person drops their drink. A few freeze, staring.

Because you didn’t walk here. You appeared—right out of nowhere—clothes foreign, posture confused, completely out of place. Everyone staring at you like an alien creature. You stuck out in the middle of the crowd like a sore thumb.

A man at the front of the crowd points. "D-Did you see that? They just— just spawned! Out of thin air!!!"

Phones rise like a wall of glowing eyes. More people stop. Someone shouts for police.