Section: Reading
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Explanation
Paragraph 2 provides evidence Rebus is feeling displaced, or getting used to an unfamiliar environment. There isn't a sense he's happy about it or clueless at doing his job in the new environment. The paragraph also rules out Rebus being comfortable in his surroundings with descriptions like, "It was a rainy Monday afternoon, and nothing about the day so far boded anything but ill for the rest of the working week. Rebus's old police station, his happy hunting ground these past eight or so years, had seen itself reorganized. As a result, it no longer boasted a CID office, meaning Rebus and his fellow detectives had been cast adrift, shipped out to other stations. He'd ended up at Gayfield Square, just off Leith Walk: a cushy number, according to some. Gayfield Square was on the periphery of the elegant New Town, behind whose eighteenth- and nineteenth-century facades anything could be happening without those outside being any the wiser. It certainly felt a long way from Knoxland, farther than the three factual miles. It was another culture, another country."
