The Infinity Helix

Stelvin Solartis stood inside of the moving elevator among well over 100 people. Even though he was traveling just one layer down from where he was, he could feel the elevator jerk left, right and down at least a dozen times during the ride.

Feeling the ride move this dynamically along with that horrible screetching sound every time the elevator changed direction would normally seem like an awful experience, but for the people riding it including Stelvin, it was not a big deal. All were used to traveling this way, many even traveled by elevator daily. The ride probably lasted for about ten minutes total.

The door opened and the crowd left the elevator. Stelvin stepped into the transportation hub. The hub was noticeably smaller than the transportation hub on the second layer where Stelvin had come from.

It was smaller because the station Stelvin was in now was not the main hub of the third layer. This station was just one of the many branches surrounding the main station.

The station Stelvin now found himself in was much less crowded, noisy, and was much smaller on the inside. The third level did have a large station somewhere, but it would be closer to the metro area of layer number three. That large station actually was larger than that station on level two Stelvin was in earlier.

Arturian the second's mansion was located in suburb 921, the closest suburb to the metropolis area itself. It was about a twenty minute walk from the station Stelvin had arrived in.

The majority of the third layer was the surrounding suburbs to the group of tall buildings. The surrounding suburbs mostly was made up of large old houses.

Stelvin had never been in this area. He continued to move through the nighborhoods and observed to how nice most of these large houses were. The further into the neighborhood he went, the more beautiful the homes became. These houses all looked old.

Calling these home "old" is not an insult. The type of "old" was different than the type of old Stelvin was used to seeing. Most of the time Stelvin witnessed aging, decaying, and poorly maintained buildings that no one had even been alive for when the buildings were first built.

These "old" houses in the suburbs looked intentionally old. Along with being very well maintained, it was almost as if the residents chose to make them appear as if the homes came from a better time. They wanted to disassociate themselves with now and the past few hundred centuries, and wanted to have a look from many thousands of years ago, when Natovis was great.