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####@@%^~, ,~^ The Spire ~^, ,~^%@@####
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###@@%^~~, ^~~ Once Upon A Time, There Was A ^~~ ,~~^%@@###
@@@@%%^~~, ^~~ Benevolent Spire, Towering Well ~^~ ,~~^%%@@@@
@@%^^~~,,, ~^~ Above Our Tallest Trees. It Was ~~^ ,,,~~^^%@@
###@@%^~~, ~~^ Clad In White Scales, And Shaped ~~^ ,~~^%@@###
###@@%^~~, ~~^ Liked A Mushroom. ~^~ ,~~^%@@###
#@%^^~,,,, ~^~ We Loved It Dearly. ^~~ ,,,,~^^%@#
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@@^~~,,,,, ^~~ It Predated Us By Many Years, ~^~ ,,,,,~~^@@
####@%^~~, ~^~ And We Did Not Know Its Original ~~^ ,~~^%@####
#@%%^~~~~, ~~^ Builders. They Had Used Its ~~^ ,~~~~^%%@#
@@@@^~~~~, ~~^ Hollow Body For Many Strange ~^~ ,~~~~^@@@@
#@@^~,,,,, ~^~ Purposes - A Womblike Place Of ^~~ ,,,,,~^@@#
##@@@%^~~, ^~~ Gestation, A Storage Of Strage ^~~ ,~~^%@@@##
#@@^^^~~~, ^~~ Fluids, A Temple To Some Kind Of ~^~ ,~~~^^^@@#
@@@@%^^~~, ~^~ Arcane Deity. ~~^ ,~~^^%@@@@
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###@@%^~~, ~~^ We Were Grateful For Its ~^~ ,~~^%@@###
#@@@^~,,,, ~^~ Presence, And Honored It The ^~~ ,,,,~^@@@#
###@@%^~~, ^~~ Only Way We Knew How: By ^~~ ,~~^%@@###
###@@%^~~, ,~~ Breaking In. ~~, ,~~^%@@###
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#@@%%~,,,, ,~^ This Place We Called Our City: ~^~ ,,,,~%%@@#
###@@%^~~, ~^~ Wavy And Fractured, With Each ^~~ ,~~^%@@###
###@@%^~~, ^~~ Courtyard On A Different Height, ^~~ ,~~^%@@###
##@@%~~~~, ^~~ Roads Becoming Roofs Becoming ~^~ ,~~~~%@@##
###@@%^~~, ~^~ Drains. And Some Places, Like ~~^ ,~~^%@@###
#@@%^~,,,, ~~^ The Spire, Nobody Had Accessed ~~^ ,,,,~^%@@#
###@@%^~~, ~~^ For Many Years. Once Its Walls ~^~ ,~~^%@@###
###@@%^~~, ~^~ Are Just Too High, And The ^~~ ,~~^%@@###
##@@^~,,,, ^~~ Internal Routes To Labyrinthine, ^~~ ,,,,~^@@##
###@@%^~~, ^~~ A Place Among Others Is Easily ~^~ ,~~^%@@###
#@%^~~~~~, ~^~ Overlooked. ~~^ ,~~~~~^%@#
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@@^~,,,,,, ~^~ So, Basically, That Summer The ^~~ ,,,,,,~^@@
@%~,,,,,,, ^~~ Four Of Us Snuck And Climbed And ~~^ ,,,,,,,~%@
###@@%^~~, ^~~ Crawled For Weeks, Searching For ~^~ ,~~^%@@###
####@@%^~~ ~^~ A Secluded Place To Do Drugs And ~~^ ~~^%@@####
###@@%^~~, ~~^ Play Music On Our Handhelds. ~~^ ,~~^%@@###
###@@%^~~, ~~^ Instead We Found Vast Lungs ~^~ ,~~^%@@###
####@%^~~, ~^~ Drained Of Their Catalyst ^~~ ,~~^%@####
###@@%^~~, ^~~ Sludge, And A Birds-Eye View To ^~~ ,~~^%@@###
####@%^~~, ^~~ Make Sense Of Our Roamings For ~^~ ,~~^%@####
@%^^^~~,,, ~^~ Years To Come. ~~^ ,,,~~^^^%@
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###@@%^~~, ~~^ A Central Spine, A Staircase ~^~ ,~~^%@@###
#@%^~~,,,, ~^~ Around It, The Seven Toroidal ^~~ ,,,,~~^%@#
##@%%%^~~, ^~~ Lungs Stacked Outside, And The ^~~ ,~~^%%%@##
###@@%^~~, ^~~ Control Room On Top. The Sockets ~^~ ,~~^%@@###
###@@%^~~, ~^~ For Its Eyes. The Smaller Spires ~~^ ,~~^%@@###
####@%^~~, ~~^ For Radiating Consciousness ~~^ ,~~^%@####
####@@%~~, ,~^ Invitations. ~^, ,~~%@@####
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@%^^~~,,,, ,~^ In Twenty fourteen, The Tower Is ^~~ ,,,,~~^^%@
##@^~~,,,, ~^~ Toppled And Eaten By Machines. ^~~ ,,,,~~^@##
@%~,,,,,,, ^~~ After A While, Something New Is ~^~ ,,,,,,,~%@
###@@%^~~, ^~~ Conjured In Its Place. It'S A ~~^ ,~~^%@@###
#@@%%^^~~, ~^~ Tiny Maw At First, Shorter Than ~~^ ,~~^^%%@@#
@%~~,,,,,, ~~^ Us, And We Let It Be. Our ~^~ ,,,,,,~~%@
#@@@^~,,,, ~~^ Journeys Still End At Its Feet. ^~~ ,,,,~^@@@#
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#@%~,,,,,, ^~~ But Then We Are Betrayed. The ~^~ ,,,,,,~%@#
@@%~~,,,,, ^~~ New Tower Eats Us. Others Are ~~^ ,,,,,~~%@@
###@@%^~~, ~^~ Sucked Inside. New Buildings Are ~~^ ,~~^%@@###
@%^~~~~,,, ~~^ Manifested Overnight, Only To ~^~ ,,,~~~~^%@
#@@@@%^~~, ~~^ Disappear In The Evening Fog. ^~~ ,~~^%@@@@#
###@@%^~~, ~^~ For A While Its Some Kind Of ^~~ ,~~^%@@###
###@@%^~~, ^~~ Timeshare Scam. Goons Are Placed ~^~ ,~~^%@@###
###@@%^~~, ^~~ Outside, And We Get Beaten Up A ~~^ ,~~^%@@###
@@@%^^~,,, ~^~ Few Times, And Stop Going. ~~^ ,,,~^^%@@@
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####@%^~~, ~~^ Iirc It'S Currently Owned By ^~~ ,~~^%@####
@%~~~,,,,, ~^~ Some Energy drink Baron Who Uses ^~~ ,,,,,~~~%@
###@@%^~~, ^~~ It To Hold All His Fourty Eight ~^~ ,~~^%@@###
###@@%^~~, ,~~ Cars..... ~~, ,~~^%@@###
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