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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 ~~\ ..~~\%&¤##
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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 ~\~ .~~\%&¤###
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