She hadn't ever worn it, and she'd never really shown it to anybody either. It was hanging in her closet, under a piece of drycleaner's plastic. She hadn't really been that active in the chapter lately. (Kelsey had dropped right out.) Chia didn't really feel that anybody in the chapter would get it, if she tried to tell them what had happened, plus there were all the bits she couldn't tell them anyway.
But mainly it was the City taking up her time, because Rez and Rei were there, shadows among the other shadows but still you could tell. Working on their Project.
Plenty there who didn't like the idea, but plenty who did. The Etruscan did. He said it was the craziest thing since they'd turned that first killfile inside out.
Sometimes Chia wondered if they all weren't just joking, because it just seemed impossible that anyone could ever do that. Build that, on an island in Tokyo Bay.
But the idoru said that that was where they wanted to live, now that they were married. So they were going to do it.
And if they do, Chia thought, hearing the hiss of the Espressomatic, I'll go there.
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