Mt. Colubo, Sabo knew about the mountain and its forests that bordered his city through his father.

The forest was marked as one of the places he 'must never enter under any circumstance', along with Grey Terminal and the outside of Goa City in general. His father always told him that it was dangerous outside the city, that the trash would contaminate him.
Sabo was always confused and angry whenever his father spoke like that, as if you could use 'trash' as an interchangeable word when referring to garbage and people 'lesser' than your self, as if the city they lived in did not hold its own set of grotesque horrors.

During one of his lessons, geography, so he would not appear suspicious in front of his instructor or father, Sabo laid a map of the Goa Kingdom, also known as Dawn Island, out in front of himself.
Scanning the area around the proudly marked 'Goa City' Sabo also found the similarly marked, only less bold, 'Grey Terminal ' and 'Mt. Colubo'.
Of course the nobles of the city would be vain even when it came to their maps. Then again both sites were considered a garbage dump and a simple mountain respectively by the residents of the city, never mind that people lived in both places.

Using his index finger he traced a path from his location to Mt. Colubo, making the route the shortest, and potentially safest, he could. While Sabo did not often listen to his father's self-conceited spiels, he was aware that there was some truth held in the warnings of danger for outside the walls of Goa City.
Seeing as he was not a resident of Grey Terminal, nor knew anyone from the outside apart from Ace, who could not accurately warn him due to not being there with him. Sabo could not reasonably say what the safest way through the terrain around the city would be, so he decided that sticking to the largest roads marked on the map that led to Mt. Colubo would be his best option. They would hopefully be the busiest, usually people were less inclined to rob one blind when surrounded by others that could interfere.

He briefly considered the idea of following the city's wall, that way he would only need to go through the outskirts of Grey Terminal to get to Ace; probably. Sabo quickly discarded that idea, although, when he figured out that while that way he might be safer physically, he would have a much higher chance of getting caught by the sentries on the wall if he did that.

That's when he realised he was not entirely sure where Ace lived on Mt. Colubo. Sabo could not ask Ace, either, since he lived in a forest and all. Asking for directions would simply confuse both of them.

Luckily, Sabo had informed Ace of his plan to run away; well, as much as he could and still have Ace understand. Dadan, as he learned the woman helping Ace was called, agreed entirely with his sentiment of needing to get out of the city as soon as possible, even if she was not enthusiastic about soon having to house another 'brat'.
Dadan's comment of them both being brats had been shortly accompanied by a small crude drawing that vaguely resembled a human hand with the middle finger raised. That drew a, very regal, snort of laughter from Sabo and, he imagined, a painful slap to the back of Ace's head from Dadan.

Between the three of them, they were able to work out a rough plan. Sabo was to follow the 'main road', of sorts, that ran straight through Grey Terminal and toward Foosha Village, there for the people who had to walk the distance instead of going by boat. He was was to wait for Ace to find him where the forest started and the terminal ended.

Simple enough, or at least it was supposed to be.

Everything had been going nice and smoothly, for the most part, in the beginning.
Sabo had waited until his single free-day of the week, a Sunday, to ask his father for permission to leave the house early in the morning. That way he had a cover for his absence until lunch time, at which he hoped to be long gone, he would have money from his parents for the market and he would have the protection of the day-light from a majority of the thugs within the city walls.
At first he wanted to leave after his family had fallen asleep, but realised that not only would he not be able to transverse the non-lightened Grey Terminal, he would also be more susceptible to assault when he could not even see his attacker.

It took him about two hours to make it unseen through not only the gates of High Town, but also unrecognised through the entirety of Edge Town to outside the city's walls. Sadly he had no time to rest, as Ace would have already set off to their meeting place. Sabo also wanted to see the other as soon as possible, wanted to meet Ace.

As soon as he had entered Grey Terminal, he was struck speechless. The place was so different from where he had grown up, it was chaotic, un-organised, dirty and so dreadfully exciting!

Walking down the road, Sabo found himself under unabashed scrutiny. After all, he was a well dressed, obviously well looked after, child,walking through one of the most notorious parts of Dawn Island by himself. The sight of him was a little more than curious.
Just about every one he made eye contact with were frowning. He found, though, that if he smiled at them, they too would smile back, transforming their weary faces into something so much more genuine than any noble he knew would be able to achieve.
All in all, Sabo found his journey through Grey Terminal quite pleasant. At first any ways.

It was not until he found the number of people lining the road thinning that he felt something was off, that someone was watching him... He realised too late what was happening.