The buildings of this quiet city street rose a good five or six stories beneath a dome that shut out the atmosphere of a green sky. Velezia was at a point in its rotational cycle where this part of the planet was facing the sun, and that would remain the case for quite some time. It took several weeks to complete one rotation, which meant nearly ten days of constant daylight.
To maintain the twenty-four-hour cycle that humans were used to, the dome would periodically become opaque. It was even worse during planetary night. At that time, huge lights that simulated sunlight would activate. Velezia, unlike the many worlds that had been terraformed by the Overseers, was nothing like Earth. Why anyone would want to live here was unfathomable to him.
Jack stood on the street corner in blue jea
