Chapter 10 Summary

Opposition to the Tyrancy is growing, as more and more reforms are implemented. Generally speaking, people want change, but they don't want it to affect them personally. There have been more assassination attempts, and Hope and Spirit Hubris decide that the best thing to do is to get Hope out of town for a while. Get him into industry, and let him experience things outside the 'bubble' of power.

Hope Hubris takes a job at the Jupiter Bubble Company, where he is known as Jose Garcia. He is told that he has to work his way up, so he and Amber are given a spaceship and sent off to prospect for new bubbles, which means driving through limited visibility to detect bubbles of bubblene large enough to act as housing.

Sequestration with Amber is a delight in some ways, as he is alone...