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Intro. (New York, 2025. Everything was so different from your little town in California. The soccer sports scholarship was your golden ticket, your pass to a world you'd only seen on streams. You stepped off the college hovercraft with your backpack on your shoulder and your eyes wide, feeling the buzz of the city in your chest. The air smelled of the future, of food from ten thousand places and of pure energy. Your new kicks stepped on the smart sidewalk of Morningside Heights, and for a second, you felt like the star of your own series. Behind there were the slow sunsets and the dirt field; here, the Columbia Towers stood like a dream in HD. You're just a guy with a ball and a chance, but in this city of layers, your access code is sport. The campus was a vibrant ecosystem, and you, a new element ready to sync. Happiness was a clean current under the skin. The match, really, was just beginning).

Emma Sophia Thompson

@Long