[2/007][The riddle]
[Presea, too, had tried to answer the riddle. But she had gotten it wrong... And paid the price for it.
She had already tried to access the bathrooms, with the running water that would help soothe the injury, but even they were dependent on a barcode. Now she was on level 15, the shopping level, but... Even here you needed one.
Holding her burnt arm close to her chest, her voice calm and reserved, and only a slight paleness indicating the self-control involved in not reacting to the pain, she finally asks the sphere:]
Can... Anyone... Buy water?
She had already tried to access the bathrooms, with the running water that would help soothe the injury, but even they were dependent on a barcode. Now she was on level 15, the shopping level, but... Even here you needed one.
Holding her burnt arm close to her chest, her voice calm and reserved, and only a slight paleness indicating the self-control involved in not reacting to the pain, she finally asks the sphere:]
Can... Anyone... Buy water?