8-126: Zarg’s World – Gravport
The hefty manual under one arm, Kwint leads them back to an information booth and then picks a similarly twisted path across several floating blocks to the Observation Deck restaurant.
Situated along the starward edge of the city, the Observation Deck is a block with large windows above, below and along the side.
When Lia and Kwint present at the entrance, a liveried server guides them to comfortable chairs at a cloth-draped table set with expensive-looking glassware and cutlery. Given the lateness of the shift, the restaurant is quiet, and so they have one of the best tables in the house.
They are on a peninsula-like outcropping of floor, windows above, on two sides and over-and-below.
The brief glimpse of the view from the transfer tunnel earlier did not do this justice. The star is still low in the sky, its rays scattered visible beams poking through the dark clouds. The storm that threatened earlier is in the process of arriving, Lia and Kwint can watch it blow in over the ocean far below, see it stirring the stillness of the waters near to the city gradually to heaving, slow-rolling white-caps.
The server asks politely, handing them a menu, “Drinks?”
Lia will order a martini and then become mesmerised with the view.