She had always wanted to leave the world that had forgotten her family and all the others abandoned on the outskirts of the Cities of Light. She’d imagined forgoing that world but had not yet imagined what might replace it. Being immersed in a place that had chosen with intention to forgo the grim worlds of silicon and carbon fiber and embrace something else left Ola feeling so light, as if her feet no longer fit in her shoes. The old sectors and New Dawn, with their Torches and talk of light that hid dark shadows, had nothing on the blue-green sheen that pulsed on this city’s strange streets.
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