Before the Fall

Everyone has their path. The choices they’vemade. How any two people end up in the same
place at the same time is a mystery. You get on an elevator with a dozen strangers. You ride a bus,
wait in line for the bathroom. It happens every
day. To try to predict the places we’ll go and the
people we’ll meet would be pointless.

Backstory gives you context, but it doesn’t tell you what you really need to know.

“I’ve been to the fucking Louvre,” snaps O’Brien.
“Is that near the regular Louvre?”

Secrets plus technology equals no more secrets.

There is nothing on earth she can’t buy on a whim. Microsoft maybe, or Germany.