[color=00a99d]"I thought you guys were all backward and tech-hating and stuff,"[/color] Branden said curiously. [color=00a99d]"At least, that's what most of the feeds say. There was this one doc blog where this guy wend into the Outlands, right? And apparently the natives tried to burn his phone, they thought it was evil. Although you're using a book instead of a phone, so maybe part of it's true."[/color] The man really was pretty weird, Branden thought. He didn't seem slow, stupid or backwards in anyway, but why didn't he use a phone? Maybe he hadn't been here long enough to get that used to technology.

She crouched down next to the man. [color=00a99d][i]"What are the Outlands like? Why did you come here? Why are you still here? You don't seem to like the city very much."[/i][/color] Branden could kinda understand why. The city was crowded, polluted, and had petabytes of information being sent everywhere every second. It could be a bit overwhelming, but city dwellers grew used to is very fast. It almost became weird and unnatural to be anywhere without a connection to the CityNet, without having a constant newsfeed in your ear or the Lens Plus which let you see your own holographic screen in front of you. What Branden found funny though, was how every one looked tapping at screens in the air that only they could see. Everyone else looked crazy.