Where is he? He looks around for a moment, adjusting his suit, and then waves to get the attention of one of the people nearby.

Now that his android body is available to him, Ai likes to hang around the place where newcomers pop in when he has the time. With all the people living in the city who are so down and pessimistic about starting their new lives here, he imagines it’s good for them to see a friendly face when they first arrive.

After all, Ai feels like one of the few people in the city who is genuinely happy to live here. It feels like he’s being given a second chance.

A nicely dressed older human (He thinks. Ai himself is walking around with a human appearance too after all) tries to catch his attention and the android spins around with a grin, arms outstretched like a ringmaster introducing the next act.

“Welcome to the city of Spirale! You must be new here, but I can tell you this world is different from the one you just came from. You’ll meet people of all different types and from all different worlds here! My name is Ai!” He gives a dramatic bow. “What’s yours?”

This is all overwhelming so far. Not on Earth, no way to get back to the afterlife... no way to help his friends at all. But... Janet can handle things in his absence, surely. Probably. For now, Michael needs to learn what’s going on, and get himself back.

“Worlds...? What, like, different planets?” He knows about other dimensions, but if other planets have life, let alone their own afterlife systems, he knows barely more than humans do about it. But that can’t be what’s going on here, can it? He can’t have been sent that far off mark.