Luke only stared down at him without speaking, but his next comment made Luke’s hands clench: “Lazy idiots. We’re poor, but you’re worse than we are.” _________________ “Luke, please, stop,” Kamrin pleaded, near tears again. It had been a while since they had resumed their night walk, but Luke was in the grip of the…
Kamrin was a glamorous district, like a miniature city in itself. Buildings of flashing golden glass clustered together, and it had a small yet efficient streetcar system of its own, in which four person streetcars whizzed past them on the flawlessly paved streets. “If you had to be named after a borough,” Luke said admiringly…
The fourth day dawned dim and cloudy. Despite the lack of sunlight, Luke and Kamrin set off blithely from the house that had received them the night before. Dark silver clouds settled over the shining peaks of the Angelis structures, and beyond the angel sculpture, Luke thought he could see the faint dust clouds from…