Changelings (2005)
“First they had to convince Marmie that they were too sleepy to stay up and play a game with her, as she suggested, but needed to go straight to bed. Then they had to wait until all was quiet and they were sure she’d retired to her quarters before they crept out of the house.Marmie had set the weather for fall. Holo leaves fell from holo trees and wind gathered them in breathy gusts into holo piles along the banks of the fake river, from which a holo deer was drinking. Realistic rattling and rus...tling sounds accompanied the whistle of the wind as if an overly friendly ghost were trying to get their attention.They made it through the garden without arousing Pet or the security staff, and reached the utility stairs leading to the next level. Stairs and elevators honeycombed the vast station, though most people chose to use the flitter fleet.The stairs were metal, grated, and zigzagged back and forth in a seemingly endless sawtooth between Marmie’s deck and the next one. Every step the twins took clanked and clattered, but it didn’t make a lot of difference since most of the station’s nonresidential areas operated continuously, were brightly lit, and had people coming and going at all hours.The third level, where the school and Professor Mabo’s science lab were located, was an exception.MoreLess
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