Flipping the hair out of her eyes, she finally brought her gaze up. The stairs glinted golden in the sunlight. Blinking once or twice and looking left and right, Niko wasn't sure that she was seeing something real. Curiosity pulled her forward, but caution made her steps slow. The stairs led up, but she couldn't see the top of them-- they disappeared into the clouds that seemed so surreal.
Niko wondered, How could there be so many clouds and so much sunshine all at once? This was not normal, but that much was obvious. Carefully, with less caution than before, Niko lifted her hand and touched her banister of the stairs. It was cold, as metal tended to be. Looking up the spiral of the stairs again, Niko placed a foot on the first stair, and then the next and the next. Curiosity was driving her up the stairs.
After a good minute of climbing, Niko looked down, but there was nothing to see but clouds. She couldn't even see the stair she had been standing on just a second ago. Terror seized her, but she had no other option than to keep going.
It felt like hours later, maybe even a full day later, when Niko finally reached the top of the stairs. There just one person who seemed to be waiting for her at the landing. Niko stared at him-- if it was a him, though she couldn't quite tell. He offered her a comforting smile and waved his hand as if displaying something behind him, though Niko couldn't see anything. "Welcome to Nowhere," he said before turning and walking away.
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