AS IF HE REALIZED THAT he"d given Lis a lot to think about, Ru left her alone in the holoroom after giving her quick instructions on how to change the settings on the holoplayer. All she had to do was turn the dial and she could be just about anywhere in the universe.
She stayed on the beach.
She wasn"t sure how the tech worked, but it really felt like she was sitting on a cotton lined chair on an utterly alien beach. She"d never seen naturally occurring red sand before.
One day with Ru and he was opening up her horizons in ways she hadn"t thought possible. Back home on Earth there weren"t many opportunities for an orphaned gutter rat from the Wastes. She"d been tough and as lucky as they came. But she"d had to fight for every single scrap she’d ever made.
There hadn"t been time or sp
