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“Jiang Yu is certain of that.Even before waking, she knew. Twisting sweatily through the black early hours, she lucid dreamed of drinking at a shady little bar on Sundeck. Fresh air for the first time in years, a striped canopy keeping the sun off her Levels-bleached skin. Then the klaxon had belched its ugly double note and she was back in her cage-bunk on Level Three.Now she lies back, luxuriating as her fellow workers trudge down the aisles to begin the first shift. This morning is the start of Jiang’s two days’ leave. Two days... a lifetime, maybe. Who knows?The dream has decided it for her: today’s the day. The day she gets out of this shit-hole. Feminine intuition, perhaps? She just knows. Come on, kiddo. You gotta get outta there. Move it!Sure, she’s heard all the scare stories: sixteen year old girl, up from the Levels. What if some freak gets hold of her? Or one of the gangs? More likely: she’ll end up with no money, no place to stay other than the gutter, no means of support ...other than selling herself on some street corner.Juno from the next dorm had Gone Up a few months ago.MoreLess
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