Kurt just nodded and held tightly to Blaine's hand as they navigated the area. At first he thought they might be somewhere in the farmlands--Sector 7 perhaps--but then they reached the edge, and his mouth fell open.

It wasn't the Port. It couldn't be. It looked far older, as if the City had shrunken and shriveled down into something dirtier and more compact. The Core had pulled them from their own realities to an entirely new one-- Could that have happened a second time? Did they have to build up their lives from scratch again?