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Mahir caught my eye and smirked "Hallo, Mason"

"Hey, Mahir" I shooktime I’ll see your luxury hotel, and raise you one zo to be a deeply enlightening evening" He put a hand onthe feeds about the Masons Two of our juniors are covering it, due to the connection to our site’s founders How are you holding up?"

It took me a second to realize that by "our site’s founders," he was referring to uess Totally out ofaround down here?"

Maggie disengaged fro ora tell you about the baths?"

"That depends When you ask ‘did the Agora’ tell us, do you oing to say Yeah, it told us"

"Good" Maggie looped one ar us across the lobby toward the elevators "Let’s get you cleaned up and into so that doesn’t smell like road funk, and then we can sit down for dinner and to plan our plan of attack for tomorrow"

"Road funk?" I asked

"Plan of attack?" Becks asked

To is iside the three of us "Tooal here in the city of Seattle"

"What do you h to push the elevator "call" button and leaned even closer, whispering conspiratorially, "We’re here to meet the Monkey, reie stepped inside, waving for the rest of us to follow After exchanging a look with Becks, I did

"I think I preferred the zombie bears," I muttered

"That’s just you, Mason," she said, and started laughing Maggie and Mahir joined in There was an edge of hysteria to the sound, like they were laughing to hold back the dark I stood there, feeling the elevator gaining speed beneath us, and held her, and closer to the future

I was never a "poor little rich girl" I had a lot of money, sure, but I also had parents who lovedI wanted with instillingsense of personal responsibility I never thought of my money as a burden The only burden was the way it made people look at me That hat I couldn’t stand, and that’s the reason I chose to go into the field I went into I was good at being a Fictional I was never that good at being a spoiled brat

There are things ood at, a sense of personal respect… those are on the list

--Frodalene Grace Garcia, July 31, 2041 Unpublished