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A handsome boy, 17 and soft-spoken, told Jasmine about an Easter egg. “Try it,” he urged, sincerity in his voice and in his eyes as he gazed at her across the tall front desk. “It’s fun. Amazing, really.”
After a few minutes, an electric cart rolled up, nearly full with resort employees on their way home. Jasmine took the last empty seat.Nothing so ordinary as the coming and going of shift workers could be allowed to intrude on the magical experience of post-hurricane Waikīkī, with its newly refurbished luxury hotels overlooking a multibillion-dollar reconstructed shoreline.
A sleek little taxi glided in on its silent electric engine. It stopped first at the drop-off zone. Four passengers exited. Then it rolled up to Lane 2, where it picked up three tourists.Another taxi followed, taking on four workers waiting at Lane 6, leaving that lane empty for Jasmine. The A.I. strove for efficiency, grouping riders who shared a destination, or at least a route.Two more taxis arrived.
He said nothing, just fastened his seat belt as a faint odor of sweat filled the car’s clean, compact cabin.An orange light flashed on the dash in front of Jasmine. “Secure your seat belt,” the taxi scolded her in a stern, disapproving voice.himshould have a penalty tacked on to his monthly rider’s fee. Instead, it would be Jasmine who got dinged for being slow with her seat belt.
No one Jasmine knew lived in a wooden house. Not since Hurricane Nolo. Whole neighborhoods had been swept away and never rebuilt.“Yeah? Sorry. I’ll be quiet.”wanted to be a forester. You know, when I was a little kid. Other kids wanted to be celebrities or tech billionaires. I wanted to grow trees. I imagined filling up the abandoned pineapple fields with forests.” A prickle of heat stung her cheeks. She shouldn’t be sharing small-kid dreams with this rambling, worn-out stranger.
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