Trying not to strain your eyes against the voice was all well and good, but once the small ship crossed into a new world you just had to sit up and pay attention.

She hadn't seen a modern city, like a real modern city, since she was ten years old and even then it had already been wrecked by violence as every doomsday prophecy ever dreamed up all came alive and started smashing into one another. Every city she's ever seen since had been gutted, either in the turmoil or long ago back in the doom and gloom days of whatever strange races had come before men took what they thought was dominance over the earth. Even the biggest towns in the underground had a ramshackle, thrown together look to them, piling together whatever building materials you could get a hold of and bolting them onto the ancient cities nestled in the hollow of the earth to create some semblance of normalcy. 

What she saw when they broke though into this world line was a city [i]alive[/i], one that worked without you having to give it a couple of knocks to get going in the morning. As the ship slipped through the high towers of the city she could she people, humans, maybe more humans than even existed back on her earth. 

She had seen pictures, but she hasn't really been able to conceptualize it. This...it was like the works before it ended. The calm before the storm, a cynical part of her mind suggested.

She didn't realize she had her nose pressed eighth up to the glass until Snopes, who had been sleeping like a good boy under her seat the whole trip, suddenly plopped up beside her in responds to her nervous energy and started making the slight hissing sound he made at anyone he thought was bothering his master in Constantinople's general direction.

She reached over, threw her arm around his neck, and pulled him in close where he calmed down, stopped his hissing, and started nuzzling her armpit like an annoying cat. She wondered if it was all right for her to bring him, but figured these people would just deal with it. If there was an adventure to go on she was taking her best friend, no exceptions. 

She turned to her pilot, and saw they were flying in low to an incredibly opulent palace. "We're getting the VIP treatment, huh? Right to the big house, express. I should have worn my good jacket, now that I think about it." She said as the ship descended.