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#@¤§=/=-.. /=- GESTATION, A STORAGE OF STRAGE /-= ..-=/=§¤@#
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#@¤§=/=-.. -/= ARCANE DEITY. -=/ ..-=/=§¤@#
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#@¤§=/=-.. .=/ THIS PLACE WE CALLED OUR CITY: -/= ..-=/=§¤@#
##@¤§=/=-. -/= WAVY AND FRACTURED, WITH EACH /-= .-=/=§¤@##
#@¤§=/=-.. /-= COURTYARD ON A DIFFERENT HEIGHT, /=- ..-=/=§¤@#
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##@¤§=/=-. =-/ THE SPIRE, NOBODY HAD ACCESSED -=/ .-=/=§¤@##
#@¤§=/=-.. -=/ FOR MANY YEARS. ONCE ITS WALLS -/= ..-=/=§¤@#
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#@¤§=/=-.. /-= INTERNAL ROUTES TO LABYRINTHINE, /=- ..-=/=§¤@#
##@¤§=/=-. /=- A PLACE AMONG OTHERS IS EASILY =/- .-=/=§¤@##
#@¤§=/=-.. =/- OVERLOOKED. -=/ ..-=/=§¤@#
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#@¤§=/=-.. /=- CRAWLED FOR WEEKS, SEARCHING FOR =/- ..-=/=§¤@#
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#@¤§=/=-.. =-/ PLAY MUSIC ON OUR HANDHELDS. -=/ ..-=/=§¤@#
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##@¤§=/=-. =/- YEARS TO COME. =-/ .-=/=§¤@##
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@¤§=/=-... -=/ A CENTRAL SPINE, A STAIRCASE -/= ...-=/=§¤@
#@¤§=/=-.. -/= AROUND IT, THE SEVEN TOROIDAL /-= ..-=/=§¤@#
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#@¤§=/=-.. /=- CONTROL ROOM ON TOP. THE SOCKETS =/- ..-=/=§¤@#
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#@¤§=/=-.. =-/ FOR RADIATING CONSCIOUSNESS -=/ ..-=/=§¤@#
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##@¤§=/=-. .-/ IN TWENTY FOURTEEN, THE TOWER IS /=- .-=/=§¤@##
#@¤§=/=-.. =/- TOPPLED AND EATEN BY MACHINES. /-= ..-=/=§¤@#
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#@¤§=/=-.. /-= CONJURED IN ITS PLACE. IT'S A -=/ ..-=/=§¤@#
##@¤§=/=-. -/= TINY MAW AT FIRST, SHORTER THAN =-/ .-=/=§¤@##
#@¤§=/=-.. -=/ US, AND WE LET IT BE. OUR =/- ..-=/=§¤@#
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#@¤§=/=-.. /-= NEW TOWER EATS US. OTHERS ARE -=/ ..-=/=§¤@#
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#@¤§=/=-.. -=/ 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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#@¤§=/=-.. =/- SOME ENERGY DRINK BARON WHO USES /-= ..-=/=§¤@#
##@¤§=/=-. /=- IT TO HOLD ALL HIS FOURTY EIGHT -/= .-=/=§¤@##
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