“What did
you say?” Robert asks, startled, looking round for the source of
the voice.
“I said
you're not going anywhere with such a bad attitude,” comes the
reply. “This is the Weave, man, attitude is everything.”
“And how
do you think my attitude could be improved?” Robert is looking all
around, but he is beginning to realise that he's talking to a voice
coming out of the air.
“You could
try being a little more bad ass,” comes the reply. The voice is
young, if it had a body it would be a man in his twenties, maybe even
late teens. “I mean, here you are, a wake walker, in the Weave,
man. The question is not what you can do, but really what you
can't.”