The Vellanti drove like a small dream. Smooth, quiet, whatever Mira had paid for the suspension she had paid well. This car was fantastic from inside out.
'I will get addicted.'
I took the long way to campus, threading through the city under the early-afternoon sun. While doing so, I thought about my changed life.
Lithium battery thing about to be an industry. Renner clearing bars and more things that I would give him. Mira about to have research data. Ruby about to build a computer from scrap. Zero stockpiling stones.
Everything I had set in motion was actually moving, and the strange new feeling under my ribs was, I realized after a minute of inspection, competence.
'I am a man who has things going on. Don't get cocky.'
The campus rose up on the right exactly where I remembered it. Brick buildings, ivy, the bell tower that had never worked the entire time I was a student. East lot, by the engineering building, twelve trees and one sad fountain, Lia's directions held.
