* * *He does his best not to stare as the cab hurtles across the metroscape, but he cannot help being impressed by the sheer size of Archimedes’ first city. Even nano-medicine and the clever delivery of genetically matched and married designer solutions couldn’t save everyone. The gondola’s essential systems are sound, most importantly the power. ”They were walking along a suspended gangway now, crossing from one side to the other of some huge space somewhere inside the rig.
Poor Paolo. He grabbed the base of her ear and pulled himself up. “Real, real tired. ” He spoke in a jerky sequence of emphysematic wheezing gasps, his swollen mass pressing relentlessly on the rupturing alveoli skeining his lungs.
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