"That's so cool," Maxine said happily. She gently pushed Dorothy to speed up as soon as she saw Comet doing the same, not wanting to lose sight of Atom! Edging the horse on, she tried to reply over the bumpiness and the distance.

"I guess we had a lot of things like that, too, and I tried to go to them, when I could! Especially the ones that were like cutting edge science things, it was always a wonder to see. There could be some pretty crazy stuff in my world, and we had a couple of big companies that sponsored a lot of research. I guess it must have been almost nothing compared to a society as advanced as yours, though!"