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Inadi barely registered the fact that he was being asked to leave with the rest of the group. He was still staring down at his hand with the lightening bolt still gripped in in. There was no way this was a real thing. Everyone else was giddy with excitement over their newly obtained powers and here was Inadi, the realist that he was, having his mind shaken completely. He was just a normal person. He couldn't fight a dragon. But with this? Now suddenly he seemed a lot more capable. 

Inadi hated having the world around him changed. He liked things that were set in stone and clearly understandable. He had a system back home that he would follow and nothing bad would happen because he did so. He would wake up, go to work at the corner store, get a lunch at the same little diner each day with the same order, and go home after working on story ideas for about two hours. Everything led into the next. Now that he was in Nowhere there was no simple task. Everything changed around him and there was no making a predictable schedule. And Inadi hated it.

Most people like excitement. Inadi wasn't one. He could very likely die tomorrow with no extraordinary things happening to him at any point in his life before that and he would be fine with it. The less excitement and danger the better. Now he was going to some random kingdom that was no doubt just as odd as this place and now he had the powers to summon an element of unbelievable powers with just a thought. He moved his hand over the bolt again and saw as small strands of electricity began jumping onto his hand and made the hairs all the way up to his wrist stand up. And yet he felt no pain from any of it. It was as if he had now been turned into rubber. Yet that rubber feeling disappeared when he got bumped into by one of the royal guards trying to rip him out of his inward soul searching state.

Inadi looked up and saw everyone heading out towards an exit that the Queen had pointed out. Giving one last look at the bolt, Inadi opened his hand and watched as it floated there for almost five seconds and disappear. Each small lightening strand fading away, as if watching a power plant turn off for the last time. He turned to try and catch up with everyone and again, bringing up the rear of the group, was shocked to see a giant cat-bus stand before them. As if this place wasn't odd enough, now it was just getting creepy.

The cat's eyes were the worst part. They seemed to just stare straight through the group as if they weren't there. Everyone else seemed interested in finding out how to enter it, yet Inadi couldn't help but wonder how the cat itself looked in regards to the bone structure. Here it had openings that resembled windows and six legs to help hold the beast itself up. Did this thing even have the traditional idea of ribs, or was it just an elongated version of the bone structure? Suddenly it seemed everyone had jumped into the now open mouth of the cat and Inadi went wide eyed. Oh no, that couldn't be...

Sure enough, he saw people near the “windows” of the cat bus and felt his stomach turn inside. This had to be the worst thing he would have to do since coming to Nowhere, and that includes clean up after Mr. Cuddles had himself a nice salmon dinner. It was amazing how messy an eater he was when it came to fish and not his treats. Perhaps it was his natural instinct to just devour the pour creatures. Yet it would have been nice if he didn't have Inadi catch the near ten foot long fish. It was amazing how big they got here. Though it would also have been extremely generous if Mr. Cuddles had cooked them as well. Again, maybe just natural instinct......

Finally accepting his fate he decided to climb in slowly into the mouth of the beast. One slip on the tongue and Inadi was afraid he may end up in the bottom level seating. Eventually he found himself among the seating area and looked around to see Vincent with a scowl a child wore when his parents didn't buy him the toy he wanted. So much complaining but at the same time, such entertainment. Inadi smiled as he got a wiff of the bus itself and immediately let out a groan. It was clear this place was not cleaned out at all recently. He would have smiled after hearing Hakuren's comment about Vincent had it not been for the smell. 

As the cat bus began taking off Inadi found himself losing his balance and fell over to a seat nearby. Luckily he was able to get his grip on the back of another seat but found himself landing on top of what felt like someone's thigh. He looked up to see Riley there, and a wave of embarrassment washed over his face. He immediately shot up and bowed his head, his glasses fogging up a bit as well. “I'm so sorry Riley. I swear I didn't mean to do that. The bus. It moved before I was....able to.....” Inadi realized he was rambling and standing in the middle of the walk path. It felt like everyone was watching him. He quickly gave one more bow and slid into the empty seat across from her on the other side of the walk path. He ten proceeded to hide his face using the seat in front of him like a small child in second grade. Softly, he began mumbling to himself.

“Stupid.....stupid.....stupid.......”