Chapter Twenty-Three
This room was very different from the previous. The first thing that Tina noticed, having come from the bright and green farm, was how humid and dark it was inside here.
Pale-blue light emanated only from rows of lights on the gallery levels. There were no bright overhead lights as in the agriculture section.
The room looked a lot more crowded, and this was because gallery levels seemed closer together and were crowded. They contained big chunky boxes with curved glass lids. Row upon row of these things occupied the gallery levels as far as she could see.
In the agriculture sector, the air had been filled with the hisses of water from sprinklers, the zoom of harvesting robots, the clatter of little carriages on the rails. In this room, Tina could hear herself breat
