The Zero

A murder of crows, mimicking the shape of a man stood out, and in a chorus of caws and croaks that pretended to be speech, spoke to her; "You belong here. With us, you know it does.  You're so tired... and nothing ever really happens here."

Route Zero
Route Zero is a unique piece of Americana. It's not quite fae-space, but it's not quite normal space, either. It's what you get when the two have an awkward child - it's populated. By...Well, it's populated. The learned and those in the know debate it endlessly, constantly.

Where it is.

What it is.

How and why and over and over, question after question.

The Consensus
Route 0, or,  the Zero, is obviously just a place where the walls between various realities are too thin, and something bleeds through. That's why one can so easily pass into or out of, the strange realm. It's an endless road, with gas stations and diners, and those truck stop towns that no one really lives in, but has houses anyway. It's a desert, but it's a wooded road, too, it's everything one can think of. And it's not... too dangerous. Just keep moving. Don't stop. You won't run out of gas. If, somehow, you do? Prices are great. Just don't stick around once you fill up.

The Truth
Route Zero, simply enough: Isn't. It isn't anything. It's a space that never was, and never can be. It's simple: The things that simply cannot be, but are, have to go somewhere, don't they? As they say: "You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here." But more than that, stories must go somewhere when they're no longer known. Somewhere where they wait, where they belong.

And that, in North America? Is the Zero. It's the result of the rail-and-road infrastructure that was so massive in the American psyche for so long. Until that, too, faded from prominence. But something with that sort of belief and faith and romanticization doesn't just vanish. It can't. It will either refuse, or simply be rejected by oblivion.

"Dead stories?"
Have you ever heard of the Lindsay Crowman? No. Of course you haven't. But on the Zero, you just might run into it. Because it's not just a story there. It is there, living, and breathing and beckoning eternal.