Burndive
Chapter One
Ryan Azarcon went to meet his dealer in Austro Station's richest,
busiest shopping district, known to its younger patrons as the
Market-but not for the many tech, clothing, and jewelry shops
available. Here in the Market you could buy anything, or anyone, if
you knew where to look or who to kiss.
It was a triple-level open-quad design, airy white and
pseudo-sunlit, mocked up with reinforced stained-glass balconies,
fluted ivory columns placed more for decoration than engineering,
and hanging sculptures that resembled featureless cranes in flight.
The Market was situated deep within Module 3, where all the wealthy
citizens lived and poorer people from the general docksides and
lower modules needed pre-authorized passes to visit. Shops catered
specifically to affluent clientele who wanted to parade their bodies
and designer labels-sometimes one and the same-which you couldn't do
from your comps at home.
Ryan himself had designer eyes-two professionally cut, blue-iris
jewels-thanks to Eternity Enhancements' biolabs. That vain bit of
genetic tweaking had been his mother's decision before he was even
born; he fe ... read full excerpt from Burndive ebook
