I landed on a pile of boxes in one of the apartments.

[so, 'sidestepping' into this horizon may very well be a different experience for everyone involved. with nowhere else to go, steve might have chosen correctly in going up, though the matter remains unknown, much as he says it — whose horizon is this and, additionally, what exactly is happening here?

stepping inside the stairwell, she too can see the mass of bubbling pink goo.

upward it is. she starts making her way up the stairs. she isn't all too sure they'll be able to reach the very top like this—and should that even be their end goal?]

It might not belong to anyone. [rather—] Maybe to — something.

[no, she doesn't mean the goo.]

Have — things been strange in the Free Cities? There's disease in Solvunn, and the dead have been rising around the shrines.