Chapter Forty
August 7, 2230, Alpha Centauri, Chiron, Lumiere, Landing Day Monument
The MX 60 sped along with ease.
Erik let Emma control things as they passed through a thicket of flitters flowing through the towers that circled the heart of downtown Lumiere.
Now that they’d spent some time in the city, Jia could clearly see that the average tower didn’t reach the commanding heights of those in Neo SoCal, despite the dense packing giving that illusion.
She supposed it didn’t matter much. A person standing at the base would crane their necks upward at the sight of something more worthy of being called a skyscraper than the buildings of the past.
It was odd when she thought about it.
The vast majority of colonies lacked any buildings of significant height. In that sense, one could ar
