I walk over to the window across the hallway from my apartment. I want to go out onto the roof. The window turns into a door so I can to outside. When I’m out there, it isn’t a flat roof that overlooks the tops of shorter buildings, the way I’d expect. Instead, it’s a grassy hill that slopes down into an outdoor park. When I look to the other apartments, I see that instead of windows, they all have sliding glass doors, like we’re in an apartment complex in the suburbs.
I walk down the hill past picnic tables. It’s warm and sunny out. I walk for a ways through a park, then decide it’s time to head back home.
I see that I can cut through a path across a college campus to get home. As I’m walking, I come across a staircase that will take me up to a skyway. I start to climb the stairs but discover that they’re folded up as a security measure, and I slide back down. As I’m standing there looking at them (and marveling that they close up) the steps fold down so I can climb them. I take this as an invitation and begin to ascend.
As soon as I make it to the top of the stairs, an alarm sounds and the stairs close up again. A gate comes down from the ceiling and I am trapped inside the skyway.
