Chapter Eight
Jia folded her hands behind her back as she stared out the massive bay window of her sister’s new apartment.
The towers forming the Hexagon loomed to her left, thick clouds of flitters swarming around them like bees protecting a hive. She didn’t even want to begin to think about how expensive an apartment with this kind of view had to be.
Mei had always preferred luxury, even when she was younger, and she had worked hard to be able to maintain that lifestyle. Jia couldn’t fault her.
It wasn’t as if she were living off their parents.
She admired the orange-red of the sunset sky. The lights on the buildings and vehicles shone around her, forming a tapestry of individual pinpricks of light like stars. Ironically, light pollution had long since washed the stars away at night
