I couldn’t argue with that. My parents had passed their amazing metabolisms on to me, so it wasn’t as if I had to worry about hiking all afternoon to work off that milkshake or anything, but living in Sedona did tend to make you get up and move around. Everyone I knew seemed to take daily walks or hikes, weather permitting.
“Here we are,” he said as the wall before us parted to reveal a room that made me gasp out loud in amazement.
One wall was made up completely by an enormous view-screen. Instead of Earth hanging there, though, we looked out into a sea of stars, with the Moon floating off to the upper left, bigger and brighter and clearer than I’d ever seen it before. The ceiling overhead was dark, and twinkled with more stars, while the lighting seemed to come from the floor, a soft d
