The correction sent her speechless. The high-rise projects that Marcus described was dangerous and filled with criminals. She couldn't imagine a little boy ducking from danger, frightened, surrounded by poverty and desperation. She wanted to apologize, though she wasn't sure what she was sorry for the most: a childhood like that or that she had fantasized about the complete opposite lifestyle in clueless whimsy.
Luckily, they were called indoors. Marcus had to be the most remarkable man alive to go from such impoverishment to the running the government. What happened to his parents? Danika followed him back inside, and in a moment of shame that mixed with sadness, she squeezed his hand and smiled just before doing so.
She didn't know who it was that Ascendancy introduced. Everyone else seemed to acknowledge him, though. He had to be someone important, duh, captain obvious. He was a handsome guy with a smile that made her want to giggle and look away, but of course she was far too sophisticated for that kind of reaction. So she tipped her chin and watched, the picture of elegance and poise.
Then, out of nowhere, Ascendancy screamed. Danika gasped, body flooded with ice, frozen, like she didn't know why -- until something...
...appeared.
The shape of a person fuzzed in and out of focus. Too afraid to move closer, but too fascinated to flee, her mind raced to figure out what it was.
Her eyes blazed with the possibilities.
The standard model of physics left no room for ghosts or spirits, men made of mist. Of course that theory was fraught with huge logic holes, but for the most part, science hadn't come up with a better alternative.
She licked her lips as she watched, mix of abject horror for what was witnessed with the chaos of her thoughts swirling with hypotheses. Its words washed away, other than the fact that could speak.
Then everything erupted around her. She didn't care. She was basically looking at a quantum system. It was amazing.
Luckily, they were called indoors. Marcus had to be the most remarkable man alive to go from such impoverishment to the running the government. What happened to his parents? Danika followed him back inside, and in a moment of shame that mixed with sadness, she squeezed his hand and smiled just before doing so.
She didn't know who it was that Ascendancy introduced. Everyone else seemed to acknowledge him, though. He had to be someone important, duh, captain obvious. He was a handsome guy with a smile that made her want to giggle and look away, but of course she was far too sophisticated for that kind of reaction. So she tipped her chin and watched, the picture of elegance and poise.
Then, out of nowhere, Ascendancy screamed. Danika gasped, body flooded with ice, frozen, like she didn't know why -- until something...
...appeared.
The shape of a person fuzzed in and out of focus. Too afraid to move closer, but too fascinated to flee, her mind raced to figure out what it was.
Her eyes blazed with the possibilities.
The standard model of physics left no room for ghosts or spirits, men made of mist. Of course that theory was fraught with huge logic holes, but for the most part, science hadn't come up with a better alternative.
She licked her lips as she watched, mix of abject horror for what was witnessed with the chaos of her thoughts swirling with hypotheses. Its words washed away, other than the fact that could speak.
Then everything erupted around her. She didn't care. She was basically looking at a quantum system. It was amazing.