Chapter Forty-Three
September 2, 2229, Neo Southern California Metroplex, Police Enforcement Zone 122 Station, Office of Detectives Jia Lin and Erik Blackwell
Jia rolled her eyes from behind her desk. “Microfriends? She seriously tried to push that garbage on you?”
Erik swallowed a bite of his beignet and nodded. He put up his feet, crossed them, and leaned back. “Yeah. I’m still getting used to that sort of thing. I forgot how much random garbage people buy on core worlds. Out in the frontier colonies, everyone’s still trying to get the whole long-term stability and survival situation under control. They’re not so bored they need to think of new ways to waste money.”
“Bacterial pets?” Jia scoffed. “You might as well have pet rocks.”
“That’s what I said. Apparently that’s been a thing
