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Even the bed was minimalist, a mattress resting on a floating slab of metal. The metal was at once propelled into the air by steroidally powerful neodymium rare-earth magnets and tethered to the floor by steel cables,
“Yeah, well, unless you’re
the lead sled dog, the view never changes.”
Polycoria: multiple pupils.
biomimeticist,”
One thing he’d learned time and again was that you never could tell what kind of private hell people were fighting through.
“How come every time I talk to you, I feel less intelligent?” “I just hold up a mirror, X.”
“The hardest part of trying to become an adult is realizing that your suffering doesn’t entitle you to anything.”
That’s what people did for you, they held you to a standard you had to live up to.