Maya blinked. “Dances?”
He chuckled, pulled up a chair, and pointed at her first slide—a photo of the famous Sacramento River Stress Ribbon Footbridge.
By midnight, her slides were a mess. Cluttered diagrams, too much text, and a color scheme that screamed “panic.” She slumped over her laptop.
“Stress ribbon bridges don’t resist the load by being thick and heavy. They accept the load, curve with it, and transfer the force into the anchor blocks at the ends. They’re honest structures. Flexible, not fragile.”