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The cities can live indefinitely if properly cared for.”
“You can’t overlook the bits that are less exciting, the parts you don’t see.”
They liked the idea of taking something broken and lost, something with no other purpose than decaying, hulking and forgotten on perfectly good land, and making it live again.
the way to open themselves a path, and they acted as if rappeling down an air vent to the gaping darkness of the tube tracks was just another, slightly more terrifying day in the life of an engineer.
Maybe it’s only right that the whales get the glory.
Mackenzie nodded. “If I’m right, your father should know. And I need you to translate.” “Me? My specialty is politics, not ecological engineering.” “Don’t you always say politics is the art of translating correctly?”
The citizens of LSAN were a fickle lot. They would happily relocate for a better job, a tighter fit with their own beliefs or politics, or even just to escape an annoying next-door neighbor.
Black Ice City
Here I’ll find good work to do. Growing work, not dancing, not politicking, not scavenging—something I hadn’t known I’d needed, but now can’t wait to try.
