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#@¤&††~~¨¨ THE SKYSCRAPER THAT MOVES ¨¨~~††&¤@#
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¤&††~~¨¨¨¨ TAINARON IS A BUILDING OWNED AND ¨¨¨¨~~††&¤
&††~~¨¨¨¨¨ OPERATED BY AMATA TEXNOLOGIYASI PLACED ¨¨¨¨¨~~††&
††~~¨¨¨¨¨¨ CLOSED TO THE HARBOR IN MALMÖ. IT'S ¨¨¨¨¨¨~~††
&††~~¨¨¨¨¨ ROUGHLY SIXTY FLOORS HIGH (REAL NUMBER ¨¨¨¨¨~~††&
¤&††~~¨¨¨¨ UNKNOWN), DARK BLUE AND COMPLETELY ¨¨¨¨~~††&¤
@¤&††~~¨¨¨ RECTANGULAR. IT FEATURES NO SIGNS, ¨¨¨~~††&¤@
#@¤&††~~¨¨ LIGHTS, OR ORNAMENTS, APART FROM A ¨¨~~††&¤@#
##@¤&††~~¨ HELIPAD ON TOP. MOST FLOORS HAVE ¨~~††&¤@##
#@¤&††~~¨¨ EXTERIOR WALLS COMPLETELY MADE OF GLASS. ¨¨~~††&¤@#
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¤&††~~¨¨¨¨ IN LATE EVENINGS, SHROUDED BY MALMö'S ¨¨¨¨~~††&¤
&††~~¨¨¨¨¨ SIGNATURE FOG ROLLING IN FROM THE SEA, ¨¨¨¨¨~~††&
††~~¨¨¨¨¨¨ THE BUILDING COMES TO LIFE: IT MOVES ON ¨¨¨¨¨¨~~††
&††~~¨¨¨¨¨ A THOUSAND ROBOTIC LEGS TO ANOTHER ¨¨¨¨¨~~††&
¤&††~~¨¨¨¨ (SECRET) PART OF TOWN, OR PERHAPS OUT ¨¨¨¨~~††&¤
@¤&††~~¨¨¨ TO SEA. THIS SIGNALS A NEW AND MORE ¨¨¨~~††&¤@
#@¤&††~~¨¨ VISCIOUS PHASE OF THE TAINARON ¨¨~~††&¤@#
##@¤&††~~¨ ECOSYSTEM. ¨~~††&¤@##
#@¤&††~~¨¨ ¨¨~~††&¤@#
@¤&††~~¨¨¨ THE GUESTS ARRIVING DURING THE EARLY ¨¨¨~~††&¤@
¤&††~~¨¨¨¨ EVENING ARE TREATED TO FOOD AND DRINK, ¨¨¨¨~~††&¤
&††~~¨¨¨¨¨ LIVE MUSIC, BEATUTIFUL VIEWS, AND A ¨¨¨¨¨~~††&
††~~¨¨¨¨¨¨ COMFORTABLE BUT MAZE-LIKE INTERIOR ¨¨¨¨¨¨~~††
&††~~¨¨¨¨¨ STRUCTURE (THE BUILDING FEATURES A ¨¨¨¨¨~~††&
¤&††~~¨¨¨¨ MULTITUDE OF STAIRWELLS AND ELEVATORS, ¨¨¨¨~~††&¤
@¤&††~~¨¨¨ PLACED SEEMINGLY AT RANDOM, NONE GOING ¨¨¨~~††&¤@
#@¤&††~~¨¨ FURTHER THAN A FEW FLOORS). ¨¨~~††&¤@#
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#@¤&††~~¨¨ AS TIME GOES ON, THE LIGHTS SLOWLY DIM, ¨¨~~††&¤@#
@¤&††~~¨¨¨ UNTIL THE AIR INSIDE HAS TAKEN ON THE ¨¨¨~~††&¤@
¤&††~~¨¨¨¨ SAME QUALITY AS THE SURROUNDING MIST: ¨¨¨¨~~††&¤
&††~~¨¨¨¨¨ BLUE-GRAY, SPRINKLED WITH THE SMALL RED ¨¨¨¨¨~~††&
††~~¨¨¨¨¨¨ DOT'S BY DOOR LOCKS AND CONTROL PANELS. ¨¨¨¨¨¨~~††
&††~~¨¨¨¨¨ IF YOU WOULD LOOK THROUGH THE WINDOWS ¨¨¨¨¨~~††&
¤&††~~¨¨¨¨ YOU WOULD SEE THE MIST ROLLING BY, AND ¨¨¨¨~~††&¤
@¤&††~~¨¨¨ PERHAPS THE OUTLINE OF SOME OTHER ¨¨¨~~††&¤@
#@¤&††~~¨¨ BUILDING, FAR BELOW. ¨¨~~††&¤@#
##@¤&††~~¨ ¨~~††&¤@##
#@¤&††~~¨¨ DURING THE NIGHT, AFTER TAINARON HAS ¨¨~~††&¤@#
@¤&††~~¨¨¨ STARTED MOVING, THE LOWER FLOORS ARE ¨¨¨~~††&¤@
¤&††~~¨¨¨¨ SHUT OFF, PREVENTING ENTRY OR EXIT FOR ¨¨¨¨~~††&¤
&††~~¨¨¨¨¨ THE GUESTS. FOOD IS NO LONGER SERVED, ¨¨¨¨¨~~††&
††~~¨¨¨¨¨¨ BUT THE DRINKS BECOME MORE EXTRAVAGANT. ¨¨¨¨¨¨~~††
&††~~¨¨¨¨¨ IT'S AT THIS POINT THAT THE SECOND SET ¨¨¨¨¨~~††&
¤&††~~¨¨¨¨ OF GUEST ARRIVES, VIA HELICOPTER - ¨¨¨¨~~††&¤
@¤&††~~¨¨¨ AMATA TEXNOLOGIYASI AND THEIR FRIENDS. ¨¨¨~~††&¤@
#@¤&††~~¨¨ ¨¨~~††&¤@#
##@¤&††~~¨ ~~~~~ ¨~~††&¤@##
#@¤&††~~¨¨ ¨¨~~††&¤@#
@¤&††~~¨¨¨ IN MY DREAM I AM INVITED AS A FRIEND OF ¨¨¨~~††&¤@
¤&††~~¨¨¨¨ ONE OF THE SERVERS, AND THUS SAFE. WE ¨¨¨¨~~††&¤
&††~~¨¨¨¨¨ SIT IN ONE OF THE LARGE WINDOWS, ¨¨¨¨¨~~††&
††~~¨¨¨¨¨¨ LOOKING THROUGH THE MIST FOR ANY ¨¨¨¨¨¨~~††
&††~~¨¨¨¨¨ LANDMARKS TO PIERCE THROUGH THE MIST. ¨¨¨¨¨~~††&
¤&††~~¨¨¨¨ SHE TELLS ME THAT APART FROM COMING AND ¨¨¨¨~~††&¤
@¤&††~~¨¨¨ GOING FROM WORK, SHE'S NEVER SEEN THE ¨¨¨~~††&¤@
#@¤&††~~¨¨ BUILDING FROM THE OUTSIDE. WE BOTH SIGH. ¨¨~~††&¤@#
##@¤&††~~¨ ¨~~††&¤@##
#@¤&††~~¨¨ THE NEXT DAY I AM INVITED TO THE PUBLIC ¨¨~~††&¤@#
@¤&††~~¨¨¨ DEMONSTRATION OF THE EXOBUBBLE. ¨¨¨~~††&¤@
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