Ymi floated in front of Max's eyes, hovering on a circle of green light. Its processor crunched numbers like peanuts and spat them out in endless columns, while image fragments zoomed and zapped through the holo screen.
'The Bozo brothers' stairway was the perfect ramp for her killer grind. For one moment that seemed to last an eternity, there was not a single thought in her head, and she felt free.'
'Charming. What manner of parents would bring up a boy in a dump like that? Lis placed the Chauteau Lafite, a frightfully expensive '86, into her gucci. With a final glance at the jag she followed the boys into the shady driveway. God, what was that smell? ... '
'At this very instant a column of light, bright as a nova, shot up to the ceiling. The whole room was flaring with dazzling, blinding green, unbearable even with their eyes closed.'