Elania laughed. “It was very different, so advanced it must be like a hundred plus years ahead of our class," she said.
“Wow," Austin went.
“Yes. There were so many things that were beyond my wildest imagination but what caught my eye first were the buildings, so tall it was like they touched the sky, Allison said they’re called skyscrapers.”
“Allison, who’s that?”
“She’s the kindhearted woman who helped me. She took me in and fed me, and even gave me a dress, the one I was wearing when we met, that was hers. Her grandmother gave it to her on her twenty-seventh birthday.”
“That was nice of her.”
“So nice. She is one of the kindest people I have ever met,” she said and smiled, missing her.
“What else do they have?”
“Ooh cars.”
“Cars? Like the ones on a steam locomotive?”
“No, thes
