Axel stares at you woefully and offers a heart-wrenching<em>meow</em>as you slide out the door, laptop bag over one shoulder.  On your way out the door, you casually wave hello to the doorman as you have for months now.  He must be particularly distracted today, you muse as he looks at you almost quizzically and raises a hand in faint-hearted greeting.<br/><br/>It is a brisk walk to the Columbus Circle station, the warming morning air fresh and crisp with an unusually high ratio of wholesome, natural smells to usual, city smells.  You are distracted with thoughts of work as you make your way South along the park.  You idly slip one hand into your coat pocket to make sure that your MetroCard is there.  Finding the flimsy rectangle, you extract it to absent-mindedly look at it, verifying that it is indeed your current, active card.  A small symbol in bright red catches your eye -- a triangle with an arrow pointing in from the top and another arrow pointing out from the right side -- near the top left of the card.  You hadn't ever noticed this symbol before and you curl your lips quizzically.  You shake your head, wondering at the things we don't even notice about the world around us.<br/><br/>The people around you are in a typical Manhattan rush to where ever it is they are going.  In the normalcy of that frenetic activity, something nags at the edge of your consciousness.  Something that your brain is telling you isn't quite right.  A sensation of familiarity with that strangeness arises, and you realize you felt that way when you were watching the morning talk show on television in your apartment.<br/><br/>~~<br/><br/>You can:<br/><br/>A.  Hurry onward to work, ignoring the strangeness you're feeling for the moment in your eagerness to get to work.<br/><br/>B.  Stop and sit on a bench near the Circle and just watch the world around you for a few minutes while drinking a cup of coffee from the nearby Starbucks.<br/><br/>C.  Pull your phone out of your pocket and read the front page of your news feed to see if any more news has surfaced about RO.