The New York subway is never quiet, but since there can be a quiet moment in this dirty place, Blake and Helen stood there on the platform, quietly waiting for their train ... and then, after a moment, the place became wild. Then a strange thing began - at first it was just a pulsating sound, like a deep note of some colossal organ somewhere in the tunnels not too far away. Then, when the sound became loud enough to make his teeth itch, the subway tunnels erupted in trembling ribbons of dazzling green flames. Blake hugged Helen to protect her from the strangely explosive light - and flames engulfed them. And carried them away.
Through the tunnels, as if they were made of stardust - into the sky. And to the beyond.
