September 25, 2230, Neo Southern California Metroplex, Summer of Sorrow Monument September 25, 2230, Neo Southern California Metroplex, Summer of Sorrow MonumentJia didn’t consider herself to be superstitious. She had always prided herself on that. Even when she joked about the Lady with Erik, it was nothing more than humor. Her family participated in holidays more out of social form than belief in the metaphysical necessity. Now, for the first time in her life, she wondered if the dead could come back to haunt the living. She stood behind Erik, her hands tucked in her pockets, near a tall fence separating a vast, mostly featureless platform from the otherwise abrupt drop-off from the tower. There was nothing unusual about that, especially in Neo SoCal. It was what was in front of her th