It was forbidden, but Jonah had climbed up to the top of Highstack Tower anyway. It was the only way he could get a full view of the Stacks - rows of towers built from old shipping containers, some converted to homes, others to business, schools, and other purposes a city can come up with for space.
He'd been born in the Stacks. So had both his parents. But his Gran had been a migrant from the Storms when she was a little girl, and as he sat there in the chill of night, bracing against the wind that whipped around that high up in the air, he thought about what it might be like to leave the walls of the Stacks.
Not that he ever could. Travel outside the walls in daytime was a death sentence. The desert heat was oppressive and it was only the extensive cooling systems in the Stacks that kept the city from becoming an oven.
Jonah turned away from the view and climbed back down to his little garden - another forbidden thing. Water was precious, agriculture was regulated, but the tomatoes were oh so good.
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It was forbidden, but Jonah had climbed up to the top of Highstack Tower anyway. It was the only way he could get a full view of the Stacks - rows of towers built from old shipping containers, some converted to homes, others to business, schools, and other purposes a city can come up with for space.
He'd been born in the Stacks. So had both his parents. But his Gran had been a migrant from the Storms when she was a little girl, and as he sat there in the chill of night, bracing against the wind that whipped around that high up in the air, he thought about what it might be like to leave the walls of the Stacks.
Not that he ever could. Travel outside the walls in daytime was a death sentence. The desert heat was oppressive and it was only the extensive cooling systems in the Stacks that kept the city from becoming an oven.
Jonah turned away from the view and climbed back down to his little garden - another forbidden thing. Water was precious, agriculture was regulated, but the tomatoes were oh so good.