Chapter 76: Aspiring For Greater Heights
Priscilla and Alto sat sat on one of the benches that stood by the road side, the bench was long enough to carry a dozen people at once, it was made of a metal and covered in soft foam. Alto felt a little awkward being with her, it was already annoying that he was lost already but now he was with a other person who seemed lost. What gave him comfort was that they had the same location in mind. He looked over at her to see that she looked a little too confident for someone who was was lost.
"Have you perhaps been here before?" Alto asked, breaking their minute long silence.
Priscilla laughed at his question and said. "You are terrible at starting conversations, no I have now been here before. That aside I would advice you buy yourself a new pair of clothes."
Alto cocked his head in her direction with a confused face. "But my clothes are fine, I brought extra."
Priscilla looked at the people across the road and around them as she addressed him. "Look at them all, they all wear the pristine garments that carry the emblem of the planet or at least one of its prime colours like the white, the sea blue and golden lines. When they found you without these in the crowd they turned on you like an insect. These people act like that to outsiders, you might think they have a right to do this."
"Actually I don’t." Alto chirped in.
Priscilla continued nonetheless. "The honest truth is that they are the scum of this planet, the lowest of the low. The real rich ones and the tournament itself is over there." She gestured to the sky, Alto looked up to see another city above the one he was currently inside. This city was floating, held together by chains of roads intersecting and crossing each other, magnificent skyscrapers that shone like gold down on them. "I know, looks cool doesn’t it?"
Alto marveled at the sight, he could not see the exact structure of the floating city but the view from beneath seemed just a as priceless. "Who actually lives there?"
Priscilla gave him an up-tight look and paused for seconds before speaking. "Now that’s a dumb question. Who else would live there except the wealthy pioneers of this world. I have to talk god about them even if I don’t want to, can’t tell when you’ll be hauled away for treason or something."