The busy street. The dazzling lights. The slumberless city with its contented populace. Where was he? In the mountains? On the street?

Obuya’s company was one of the latest targets of the Old Order, a crumbling web of dying tyrannies grasping for resuscitation...

The app was called UniLingo, a real-time universal translator that could replicate speech patterns down to the tiniest quirk...