Miguel raised an eyebrow as he was hip-checked, and looked down at Ava while he drank his coffee. The insistence on Starbucks was not a problem at all for him, and he had the largest coffee available. Fuel for the upcoming Shopping Marathon.
Truth be told, this mall was not that big. Obviously it wasn't a small one, but Nueva York had bigger malls. It was only to be expected, though. Everything was bigger and taller and more in 2099. So he wasn't overwhelmed with it like he thought Ava was. No, the things he found interesting were the differences and oddly, the similarities. There were a few brands and shop names he knew, some he thought he knew but turned out to be very wrong, and others that he had no idea about.
"He can't choke on a hologram. Do they have any of those drawing holos, where they project shapes and colors into the air around the kid's hands? My brother had one of those when he was a kid," he suggested, before looking closer at a slime display in the window. "Why is slime a thing? That one glows, look."