The Atopia Chronicles (Atopia Series Book 1) by Matthew Mather

Author:Matthew Mather [Mather, Matthew]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: 47North
Published: 2014-01-07T05:00:00+00:00

Soon after, I was sitting in bed, contemplating the view from the window of our pensione. The urge to connect into my work systems was nagging at me, but I was resisting, trying to soak in the moment. A gentle breeze blew in through the window, and Brigitte clung tightly to my side.

We enjoyed sex without any of the messy special effects a lot of the other pssi-kids went for. Not to say we hadn’t experimented with all that stuff. Brigitte was quite the wild child in her day, but as we’d gotten older and found each other, the craziness had lost its appeal.

“Willy,” she purred softly, “can I ask you something? And can you promise not to get mad?”

“Sure, anything, sweet pea.” All of my defenses were down. She could have asked me to jump into the canal and I would have happily complied.

“Do you think we could start sharing our realities? I mean, completely.”

Even as relaxed as I was, this gave me a shock.

“Sweetie,” I replied calmly, “even couples that have been married for years don’t share their realities entirely.”

Right now we were sharing a reality of being in Venice together, which was great, but she wanted to fully share each other’s reality skins, all the little and big ways we filtered and modified real and virtual worlds.

I wasn’t sure I wanted her to see the world the way I saw it.

“I know what other people do, and I don’t want that to be us,” she continued. “It is possible, you know.”

It wasn’t like I walked around with the world skinned-up in some weird fantasy, but still, sometimes I liked my world to appear the way I liked it to appear. It was hard to deny her, though.

“I want us to take that next step in our relationship,” she added, “to experience the world together in the same way.”

Really it wasn’t that big a deal. It wasn’t as if we were teenagers and I had something to hide. She really deserved more from me.

“Sure, let’s do it. I’d love to do that with you!” This earned me a big hug and kiss, but I pulled myself away gently. “I love you, sweetheart.”

“I love you, too,” she replied.

I paused, looking at her expectantly. A steady wind that only I could feel had begun to blow.

“Yes, yes, go to work.” She smiled and rolled her eyes. “I know you’re dying to get out there with Wally.”

She hit me playfully with a pillow.

I laughed, grabbing the pillow away and pulling her in for a final kiss.

In a flash, I was rocketing up through the heavens and into my workspace.

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