Chapter 1

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"My nose wide as the Red Sea (Red Sea)
Lips full, fillers don't fill me (Fill me)
Soon as my cousin killer's on trial (Woah)
Family gon' pull 'em sitting courtside
Godsend they say, we singing la-la-la
Don't want no vultures on our si-i-ide
Looking black as the messi-i-iah
I got time...

When we die, where do my people go?
To the stars where they can't steal your glow
When we die, where do my people go?
To the stars where they can't steal your glow
Superpower"

Kirby—"Superpower"

Chocolate City.

That's what they called this particular section of dorm housing on the fourth floor of the building known as New House that Erik N'Jadaka Stevens found himself standing in at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

M.I.T.

"No man, this dude is different. He's twenty, but he acts way older. Quiet. Not real friendly...I don't mean in a bad way...he's just not gregarious. Grad student, not a freshman... I didn't ask. He applied to be here and Jay said he'd be a good fit. Oakland...I don't know..."

They were feeling him out already.

The lone voice he heard was in another room talking on a phone. The person wasn't even aware that Erik had entered House One that Chocolate City shared with iHouse, another identity-based undergraduate group who used the first two floors while they used the other three top floors.

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