Futuristic Jaunt room with blue lounges, colorful ceiling, family, attendants, guards, and a dark pit in the floor.

A large and spacious room called the Jaunt designed for one purpose: to transport people through space and time. Even though the Jaunt can be a terrifying place, illuminated by intense lights, almost clinical, the size of the room gives a sense of openness; it is well-suited for people waiting. It’s filled with one hundred blue concourse sleep lounges placed in rows of ten. The area is all carpeted in oyster gray except for the ceiling, which is progressively showing a mix of swirled colours. The walls are an eggshell white and hung with pleasant non-representational prints. The name Jaunt is written in big black letters on the right wall. There are five Jaunt attendants wearing red suits circulating. Some of them are pushing carts loaded with gas tanks and oxygen masks, barely visible through a narrow opening, and others are passing around offering glasses of milk. At one side of the room is the entranceway, lined by armed guards and another Jaunt attendant who is checking the validation papers of a latecomer. Directly across, a five-by-ten-foot gap drops into the floor, disappearing into a dark, bottomless opening that looks similar to a child’s slide. One of the families present in the room is made up of four people, and they are all lying side by side on couches near the far end of the space. The two children look very scared and anxious about being teleported. Voir plus