Chapter 13 The classroom pod had been designed for older students—well into their second decade and even beginning their third—but Sue was surprised to feel a bit cramped. The space was the full dimensions of a standard living pod without any walls or divisions, so that didn’t quite make sense. Four rows of long white tables left plenty of room for everyone, even with a larger crowd than anyone expected for the last day of their first software coding workshop. Every attendee had an arm’s length on both sides. The white chairs weren’t nearly as comfortable as Sue’s in her command pod, but they were workable. The lighting was set to full Earth daylight and reflected nicely off the bright yellow walls. Even the full-wall instructional monitor up front showed an open vista of a calm Earth o