I can barely make out the faded red monkey tattoo on his withered chest. His fingers twitch a little, and his mouth works, as if he's trying to speak, and you can see where veins pulse weakly in his scrawny neck. Along the way, a girl named Lanaya befriends Spaz, Ryter, and Little Face. Although the normals, the non-improved people of the Urb, may not enter Eden, Lanaya takes pity on Spaz's sister, Bean, and brings them all into Eden in the hope of finding a cure for the girl. I figure she's pulling my leg.
Ground is dirt or concrete, everybody knows that.
It doesn't make sense. But I'm wrong, flat wrong. The three of us stand in the open hatch and look up at the sky. Then I realize my eyes are weeping because they've never seen anything this beautiful. I never thought about it before, but in the Urb the sky is so close that sometimes you think you could reach up and touch it.