[ A choking cough-noise because, yep, she's gonna run circles around him. Quick recovery on his end, at least, as his gaze sharpens on her. ]
So you are. [ Drifting in and out of this reality before she was properly settled, huh. Fascinating. ] I'll do my best, then. [ Maeve is, ah, confident in a way that cuts through his hesitance and compels him to push onward. ]
Outside's New Amsterdam, [ he motions up and down as he speaks. ] a sprawling megacity with buildings as tall and as deep as you can imagine. One of 104 megacities left on Earth in the year 2511. [ his features lift as an idea occurs to him suddenly. ] Actually, visuals will help — [ a blink and flick of his hand, as he invites nearby neural devices (her own, anonymous though it is) to share his neural interface, which pops into her vision as:
@leo.fitz would like to initiate a shared display with you! > ACCEPT > DECLINE
If she accepts, some tourist-y photos of New Amsterdam will be viewable in the space between them, a holographic display generated by their implants: Aerial shots of the skyscrapers, snapshots of bustling food markets, a picture of the river that runs down the city centre and showcases a shoreline dotted with eerie, black obelisks (atmospheric stabilisers). ]
That's the clean version. [ dry. ] Not so glossy in reality. Rich live high, poor live low — at least as a general rule of thumb.
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So you are. [ Drifting in and out of this reality before she was properly settled, huh. Fascinating. ] I'll do my best, then. [ Maeve is, ah, confident in a way that cuts through his hesitance and compels him to push onward. ]
Outside's New Amsterdam, [ he motions up and down as he speaks. ] a sprawling megacity with buildings as tall and as deep as you can imagine. One of 104 megacities left on Earth in the year 2511. [ his features lift as an idea occurs to him suddenly. ] Actually, visuals will help — [ a blink and flick of his hand, as he invites nearby neural devices (her own, anonymous though it is) to share his neural interface, which pops into her vision as:
@leo.fitz would like to initiate a shared display with you!
> ACCEPT
> DECLINE
If she accepts, some tourist-y photos of New Amsterdam will be viewable in the space between them, a holographic display generated by their implants: Aerial shots of the skyscrapers, snapshots of bustling food markets, a picture of the river that runs down the city centre and showcases a shoreline dotted with eerie, black obelisks (atmospheric stabilisers). ]
That's the clean version. [ dry. ] Not so glossy in reality. Rich live high, poor live low — at least as a general rule of thumb.