Chapter Sixteen
Erik didn’t understand why someone would want to live in a tower apartment that gave the illusion of having no walls.
Heights didn’t bother him. He’d performed more than a few orbital and sub-orbital drops during his time in the military, but sitting in a place with no sense of separation from the outside world hundreds of stories above the Earth was disorienting. At least internally. From the outside, it looked like any other apartment in a luxury tower, and he’d not realized how insane it would be once he was inside.
Sometimes he felt like he might fit in better on some alien world than he did on Earth.
The thought kept running through his head as Dr. Chen’s ex-wife Laya led Erik and Jia from the more reasonable enclosed foyer to her faux-exposed living room. The holo
