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were to trusting Krex transportation technol-ogies. While a driver was necessary to reach a selected destination, these automated pods ran back and forth to and from major transit hubs. Despite Grimaldi’s suspicion about the Krex’s motives, he still put his children on Krex technology twice a day every weekday.
Luis felt the sphere plop itself on its land-ing pad in the lot between Farmer High School on the right and Farmer Elementary and Middle on the left.
Beyond the high school, to the far right, was the canyon wall, where the sand spiked and dropped in waves as the invisible tubes of magnetism slammed silently into its sur-face. To the left, beyond the two schools for younger students, was an empty land-scape. Far beyond where Luis could see, he knew there w
