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#@@¤&=^=~¨ ^~= Benevolent Spire, Towering Well ~^= ¨~=^=&¤@@#
##@@¤&=^=~ ~^= Above Our Tallest Trees. It Was ~=^ ~=^=&¤@@##
#@@¤&=^=~¨ ~=^ Clad In White Scales, And Shaped =~^ ¨~=^=&¤@@#
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#@@¤&=^=~¨ ^~= It Predated Us By Many Years, ~^= ¨~=^=&¤@@#
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#@@¤&=^=~¨ =^~ Purposes - A Womblike Place Of ^=~ ¨~=^=&¤@@#
##@@¤&=^=~ ^=~ Gestation, A Storage Of Strage ^~= ~=^=&¤@@##
#@@¤&=^=~¨ ^~= Fluids, A Temple To Some Kind Of ~^= ¨~=^=&¤@@#
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##@@¤&=^=~ =~^ We Were Grateful For Its =^~ ~=^=&¤@@##
#@@¤&=^=~¨ =^~ Presence, And Honored It The ^=~ ¨~=^=&¤@@#
##@@¤&=^=~ ^=~ Only Way We Knew How: By ^~= ~=^=&¤@@##
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#@@¤&=^=~¨ ~^= Wavy And Fractured, With Each ^~= ¨~=^=&¤@@#
##@@¤&=^=~ ^~= Courtyard On A Different Height, ^=~ ~=^=&¤@@##
#@@¤&=^=~¨ ^=~ Roads Becoming Roofs Becoming =^~ ¨~=^=&¤@@#
##@@¤&=^=~ =^~ Drains. And Some Places, Like =~^ ~=^=&¤@@##
#@@¤&=^=~¨ =~^ The Spire, Nobody Had Accessed ~=^ ¨~=^=&¤@@#
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#@@¤&=^=~¨ ~^= Are Just Too High, And The ^~= ¨~=^=&¤@@#
##@@¤&=^=~ ^~= Internal Routes To Labyrinthine, ^=~ ~=^=&¤@@##
#@@¤&=^=~¨ ^=~ A Place Among Others Is Easily =^~ ¨~=^=&¤@@#
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#@@¤&=^=~¨ ^~= 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 ~^= ¨~=^=&¤@@#
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#@@¤&=^=~¨ =^~ 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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##@@¤&=^=~ ^~= Conjured In Its Place. It'S A ~=^ ~=^=&¤@@##
#@@¤&=^=~¨ ~^= Tiny Maw At First, Shorter Than =~^ ¨~=^=&¤@@#
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#@@¤&=^=~¨ ~^= Sucked Inside. New Buildings Are =~^ ¨~=^=&¤@@#
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#@@¤&=^=~¨ =~^ Disappear In The Evening Fog. ^=~ ¨~=^=&¤@@#
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#@@¤&=^=~¨ ^=~ 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 ^=~ ¨~=^=&¤@@#
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