[1601] Three Stations Square/Hotel Leningrad

This was written in two parts:
Part 1: Aleksandr crossing Three Stations Square, with the autistic sensory overstimulation combining with his pre-existing anxiety into a perfect storm of overwhelm.
Part 2: Aleksandr getting to his destination, the Hotel Leningrad, and the anxiety mutating into social anxiety about whether he can pass for 'normal'.

I'm worried about if the seams are showing too much, and if that process of one type of anxiety turning into another works. Line edits, clunky phrasing, etc. are all good for ripping apart too. Dig in with claws and teeth; I'm throwing this to the wolves.

This is pretty early in the first third of Aleksandr's big arc, where he's still this quiet, asocial, and an observant and intelligent person, but not a particularly confident one. His boss, Vladimir Markovich Chegunkin, is a coke-addled narcissist, of whom he is afraid enough without adding crime-family complications. This is a LONG time before the short fight scene I shared recently, so there is distinct character growth (like a tumour or some mutation... he doesn't become a better person!) between the two.

I got to do a lot of 'write what you know' for this bit. That's a double-edged sword, because I know what the square and the hotel are like so may have over-described them in some places through trying too hard to paint an exact picture, and under-described them in others because of being blind to taking certain elements of the environment as a 'given'. This also goes for Aleksandr's progression through the combination of his autistic and anxiety based symptoms; I have both, and that kind of busy urban environment piled on top of whatever stressor already has me dysregulated can produce this sort of physical overreaction to external stimuli. However, I'm writing for people who mostly won't experience similar, so I don't know if I've conveyed it well.

Link to my work: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19vZhBJIVWA6bmO0FrlOHzJDYCECEUq3psPC1Kw7pctc/edit?usp=sharing

Crits:
Red Eye, Part 1 [1301]:
Part 1: https://www.reddit.com/r/DestructiveReaders/comments/1dwhyo6/comment/lcwogaa/

Part 2: https://www.reddit.com/r/DestructiveReaders/comments/1dwhyo6/comment/lcwrrjx/

Part 3: https://www.reddit.com/r/DestructiveReaders/comments/1dwhyo6/comment/lcwogaa/

Part 4: https://www.reddit.com/r/DestructiveReaders/comments/1dwhyo6/comment/lcwy9gm/

Part 5: https://www.reddit.com/r/DestructiveReaders/comments/1dwhyo6/comment/lcx0515/

Part 6: https://www.reddit.com/r/DestructiveReaders/comments/1dwhyo6/comment/lcx2ety/

Summary: https://www.reddit.com/r/DestructiveReaders/comments/1dwhyo6/comment/lcx4mdb/

Red Eye. Part 2 [1195]:
Part 1: https://www.reddit.com/r/DestructiveReaders/comments/1dy7mgu/comment/ldbeif8/

Part 2: https://www.reddit.com/r/DestructiveReaders/comments/1dy7mgu/comment/ldbqhuu/

Part 3: https://www.reddit.com/r/DestructiveReaders/comments/1dy7mgu/comment/ldcg3r6/

Part 4: https://www.reddit.com/r/DestructiveReaders/comments/1dy7mgu/comment/ldfqyza/

Part 5: https://www.reddit.com/r/DestructiveReaders/comments/1dy7mgu/comment/ldfw0ey/

Part 6: https://www.reddit.com/r/DestructiveReaders/comments/1dy7mgu/comment/ldga0u4/