|
Synopsis: Ming, an American of Chinese descent, recently broke up with her fiancé after he revealed his prejudice against Asian people. In Second Life, where her avatar is blond and blue-eyed, she literally found a knight in shining armor in Kip. She and Kip hung out in Heaven, chatting and laughing and doing a little building. Their relationship was platonic until…
…until I woke up, and the giant baby statue and great palace in the sky vanished into my ringing alarm clock. I sat up, disoriented. Slowly, I turned my head from one side to the other, stretching my stiff neck muscles. My mind began to clear. Kip and I built, but not a palace. Certainly not a baby! With stunning awareness, I realized I wanted more of Kip: more building, more conversation, more intimacy. I tossed aside the |
bed sheet and swung my feet to the cool wood floor, eager to get through a day at work and back to Second Life.
That evening, Kip TPed me to Heaven, just as he’d done dozens of times before. But this time, when I rezzed, I found myself facing him in a large, classical-style open pavilion I hadn't seen before. There was a terrazzo floor laid on the clouds. It stretched maybe 30 meters wide and I guess 40 meters back. In the center was a gushing fountain with a statue of Aphrodite in the middle. Around the sides of the structure stood Corinthian columns 20 meters high. The effect was one of grace and majesty. “Oh Kip,” I said. “Did you build this?”
“This is for you,” he said. His visor |
