"Build a city just to burn it down for a piece of art?" he marvelled, then winced at the bright electric light as they stepped inside. "By the bloodlords, the unearthly glow in this place..." After shielding his eyes a moment while they adjusted, he swept back his hair and looked about eagerly. His stolen right eye picked up burning streaks of new colour he had never seen in his earlier visits; oranges and pinks strong enough to scour the retina, a hundred shades of blue in one single shadow.

"You told me you'd never seen sunlight before coming here. Was all your world lit this way? Is the Station much like it?"