"So, how 'bout the bottom?" I ask, bored out of my mind. "We've never been there!" "El, are you kidding?" Alice gasps, horrified. "You, of all people should know we can't go there!" "I know Al, but it's just so boring since they disabled the holo-world! There's only so much one can do up here." I was exasperated. She always had to talk the sense into me, even when that was the last thing I wanted. All I wanted to do was visit the Bottom of our building. And I knew Alice did too. "Al, please," I begged. "Come on! Unless there is something you'd rather do?" I could see her arguing with herself, forever suspended between right and exciting. "Ok," she conceded. "But only if you promise me one thing."
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Science FictionElle Marsh is an orphan. Her pArents were killed in the War of Ages, a fierce war between the Protectors and the Rogues of Flin. Elle has always lived with her best friend, Alice, blocking out her past and spending her days in the Inside, a computer...
