That felt more grounding than Octavia would have expected it to.

"Yeah," she said. "Yeah, she is." It was pretty far to go for therapy, but then she would probably have had to portal out to Karolina's Baltimore, too.

Her hand settled at the back of his neck.

"There's not really anything special about it," she continued. "The corner, I mean. There are probably hundreds just like it all around the city. But... It's there on the way to the portal place. And it just feels... infinite, somehow. All you see is tall buildings just stretching on."