Hi again, all. The bustle of summer keeps everyone extra
busy but I wanted to get back into the mix and submit another snippet from the
GreenGrass universe. I appreciate all the
comments from the previous entries and look forward to participating in this
week’s fun. Just for the sake of
catching up, the past entries from my novel Welcome
to GreenGrass had John Traveller, misplaced police officer from Earth,
trapped in the alien city of GreenGrass and saving a newbie from a couple of street predators before explaining the new
rules the city lives by. Thanks for
reading and make sure you check out all the other great Science Fiction Fantasy
Saturday contributors!
As he walked back towards
the market district, Traveller wondered how many times had he done this? How many inserts had he escorted from their
impromptu births into GreenGrass to whatever new section of this town they’d
eventually call home?
He crossed through the
Technologist quarter with their shiny skyscrapers scaling up to the top of the
dome, interlaced with corridors and walkways between the glass and steel
behemoths, like one huge computer component entwined with wire and cable. Hover crafts and humanoids harnessing
personal propulsion systems floated down the street as if putting their feet to
the ground would be an affront to them.
Traveller preferred moving around the city on his own power. While everyone else opted for cyber
enhancements and magical trinkets to help them get by, he was determined to
stay the same as when he first portalled through. If he allowed himself to become too immersed
in the culture, he feared getting lost in this new life.
He passed the twin offices of Kolan and Strakus. The lights were dim in the upper floors of one of the towers but the other bustled with activity and burned bright, which seemed odd at this time of the setting. Traveller felt the rhythic hum of generators and processors that kept this section of GreenGrass running. Exiting the tech sector, he made his way back into the market, passed where he rescured Jerry earlier, and finally stopped in front of a brick and wooden two story structure. Home.
