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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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###@$*:-^, -:^ Toppled And Eaten By Machines. :^- ,^-:*$@###
###@$*:-^, :-^ After A While, Something New Is ^:- ,^-:*$@###
@@$**-^,,, :^- Conjured In Its Place. It'S A ^-: ,,,^-**$@@
##@$::^^^, ^:- Tiny Maw At First, Shorter Than -^: ,^^^::$@##
#@****:-^, ^-: 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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###@$*:-^, -^: Iirc It'S Currently Owned By :-^ ,^-:*$@###
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###@$*:-^, :-^ It To Hold All His Fourty Eight ^:- ,^-:*$@###
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