Glitch by Erik Schubach

Author:Erik Schubach [Schubach, Erik]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Erik Schubach
Published: 2017-01-30T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5 – What Constitutes Life?

We arrived at New Terra a few minutes later, I was so worried about Glitch that I forgot to marvel at the sleek ship I got to ride in for the very first time. That was another pleasure that was tainted for me, thanks to the bootwaffles topside.

I was beginning to think the only redeeming thing they had to offer me was Vashon. I know that is a myopic view of the topsiders, and I have only been exposed to some people I did not care for. I'm sure they are the minority, and they are all more like Sanders and Vash.

Vash docked us, not at the ring of docking ports at the perimeter of the great city with its soaring buildings and spires, but at the Capitol spire itself. This would be the second time in my life I have visited the floating cities, and this too was not for pleasure.

Before I knew it, she was grabbing my hand and dragging me outside of the enclosed tumbril. Even my current distress didn't take away the same sense of shock and awe I had experience on seeing the city the first time. There was so much to look at, so many things vying for my attention, and the skies were just as crowded with public transportation and sports tumbrils, as the walkways at ground level were with people.

I was on sensory overload trying to take it all in. There were public parks dotting the cityscape with their blue and green trees offering a bit of normalcy for me to latch on to. I was shaken out of it when Vash gave my hand a little squeeze.

I muttered an apology, “It's just so much to see, it's overwhelming.”

She said as she pulled me inside the building which was just as crowded inside as outside, “Just block it out and concentrate on one thing. Concentrate on me Fixie, and let's find out what in the name of the mother of all crystal is going on.”

I nodded and smiled crookedly. I could do that. She was, after all, my favorite thing to look at. I blushed at my own thoughts and fixed my eyes on her. The brat was grinning as she led me through the corridors.

She led me deftly through the maze of corridors, mag lifts and security desks to the Department of Sciences. I had a feeling she was being fed the location via her implants unless she was intimately familiar with its location in the half million square feet of labs and offices on the two hundred and twelfth floor.

I hesitated and looked at her. Perhaps she was, I didn't know after all, just where such integrated cybernetic/organic integration would be performed on a Sky Guard captain. It certainly wouldn't be in one of the posh cyber implant boutiques they advertised on the waves I watched dirtside.

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