It gleamed. Rather brightly, she thought. It was a mystery how anyone, even the bright people in Omni-Engineering, could make a 190 story high-rise building gleam so much, but then a lot of the cities on Rubi-ka had mysteries, big and small. This was just another one. A small mystery, in terms of significance, but certainly not small...
Funnily enough, the interior gleamed too. It really seemed to be designed to make people afraid of leaving, for fear of the retinas being seared through the sudden change of light. Or perhaps the brain exploding through the change of atmosphere as you walked indoors. It was rumored Department Director's had, in the past, used this building for private residences. Whatever the rumors, she decided to make her own mind up, and crashed onto the bed.
Definitely possible.
The luxury of this place would take some getting used to, especially live and interactive gridfeeds. Good God, she hadn't seen one in nearly 18 months. Long time to live without gridfeed. In a few minutes, she would have wished it could have been longer, but the figure on the bed was content for the moment.
Only for a moment.
IRRK news was about to run a live Gridfeed. Okay, fine, different alignment but newsie's across Rubi-ka were generally the same, with minor differences in language, their posture on certain subjects and differences in the weapons they held to their counterparts throats.
Omni-Reform had, of course, a small warning before the feed. This was not an Omni-Tek sanctioned news broadcast. Which meant IRRK had probably offered a ton, -Reform had probably screamed and whined at a Director's meeting about it, then been overruled because of the profit. If the money was right, she'd lay a bet on the clanner's getting a nice spot on Omni gridfeed. Not that any smart person would listen.
"Ace Reporter Kristi Toolian", reports from Sabulum. Wow, great, fantastic. She had varied memories of Sabulum, both good and bad. The town had once been wonderful, a very long time ago. Pretty dead now, she reckoned, after all the fiasco's that blew up there.
The news report brought up neither a good nor a bad memory, but her future, she figured, was as of 5 seconds ago pretty dead and, upon seeing the report again, she nearly blew up...
"Good God!", was probably heard at the security office, 127 floors below.