The F train pulls up to the platform right as he approaches, a magical moment that makes him nervous but also excited—and what’s the difference? Nerves are nerves—because he can’t say for certain where it will take him, but the train ahead has screeched away and another one is coming, so either they’re all going to die or everything is fine, and since he’s a member of the Emergency Management field team, it seems important for him to discover what happens either way, so he gets on.
