Academy City, a vast, circular, modern metropolis with a population of 2.3 million, was undoubtedly advanced and beautiful. At least, that was how it looked to the little girl walking along the sidewalk with her schoolbag on her back, skipping through one city-sized park after another on her way to school.
Of course, this city's size, sophistication, and beauty were all relative. Compared with the planet-sized cosmic cities scattered across the Koprulu Sector under the rule of Annie, the city was still a little too small and backward.
Still, no matter how small or backward it was, that wasn't going to spoil Queen Annie's mood as she wandered around and enjoyed herself! After all, she'd seen and stayed in places like the Rogue Encampment, as well as backward cities in other worlds, full of mud and human and animal waste, and reeking of filth. So, this Academy City was already a pretty nice place by comparison. It was certainly much better than New York, where she'd once lived, a city constantly visited by aliens and all kinds of monsters, and forever beset by murder, looting, and bombing.
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"Tibbers, look! They've got so many huge windmills installed all over this city. How are the people who live nearby supposed to sleep at night?"
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Little Annie had always been puzzled by the rows of giant power-generating windmills in Academy City. When the sea breeze set them spinning, they made a tremendous racket, along with a howling "whirring" sound. She could even hear it faintly sometimes from her big house. Now that she was here, it seemed even louder!
As everyone knew, wind farms were generally built in remote, windy places like plains, fields, mountains, coastlines, offshore areas, or mountain passes. Those enormous things were huge noise-makers, after all. So