"I don't know," Jim replied, turning again and looking up as another slab of architecture cascaded into the water. "It's like an entire world, here, all wrapped up into those buildings. They have that feeling to them, don't they? Like whoever built them spent lifetimes making them real, and then just walked away."

Jim was feeling maybe a little poetic himself, today.

"What I wouldn't give for my solar surfer, here. Can you imagine what those buildings must look like, up close?"