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A Figure Like That<br />

apparently due to conservation reasons. This<br />

was something she never really understood as<br />

the ferries didn’t produce any actual pollution;<br />

maybe she will ask Jamie about this when she<br />

got to London?<br />

Although she hated the game, one thing<br />

Olivia had learned, from personal experience,<br />

was that if she wore a short skirt, she was<br />

much, much more likely to get a seat on this<br />

particular ferry. Even though the SkyRail ferries<br />

were much faster than the old aeroplanes from<br />

when she was younger, the trip to London was<br />

still very long and standing was not something<br />

she really wanted to consider. She passed her<br />

phone over her platform’s gate scanner and<br />

these openly smoothly for her and she briefly<br />

stood on the platform before she got onto the<br />

ferry.<br />

Nearly immediately, as she reached the<br />

passenger’s seating area, people started to<br />

shove up a bit and removed handheld luggage<br />

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