Chapter Twelve
Erik leaned over the railing of his new apartment’s deck, staring at the forest of towers and platforms filling the metroplex, along with the long skywalks connecting many of the nearby platforms and towers.
He turned, bringing his head around to look up the side of his building before looking down.
He couldn’t even see the ground with the slight haze, flitters, and different platforms and skywalks blocking his view.
He craned his neck upward one more time. The sun hung in the cloudless sky, but the towers extended well past his apartment, blocking what could have been a beautiful view. The memories of countless sunrises on different worlds and the views of their moons flooded him for a moment.
Beauty before the placing of humanity’s technological glove on a world.
He
