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.-~^%$@@ .-^ The Spire ~^. @@#&$%^~-.
.-~^%$$&&& ~^-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~- &&&$$%^~-.
....~~~%&& ^~- Once Upon A Time, There Was A ^-~ &&%~~~....
.-~^%$@# ^-~ Benevolent Spire, Towering Well -^~ #@#&$%^~-.
.-~^%$$&&& -^~ Above Our Tallest Trees. It Was -~^ &&&$$%^~-.
.-~^%$&&&@ -~^ Clad In White Scales, And Shaped ~-^ @&&&$%^~-.
.-~^%$#@ ~-^ Liked A Mushroom. ~^- @##&$%^~-.
.-~^%$#@ ~^- We Loved It Dearly. ^~- @##&$%^~-.
.-~^%$$# ^~-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^-~ ##&$$%^~-.
.....--^%& ^-~ It Predated Us By Many Years, -^~ &%^--.....
....-~~^$# -^~ And We Did Not Know Its Original -~^ #$^~~-....
.--~~~%&&@ -~^ Builders. They Had Used Its ~-^ @&&%~~~--.
.-~^%$## ~-^ Hollow Body For Many Strange ~^- ###&$%^~-.
......~^$# ~^- Purposes - A Womblike Place Of ^~- #$^~......
.....-^$&& ^~- Gestation, A Storage Of Strage ^-~ &&$^-.....
.-~^%$@@ ^-~ Fluids, A Temple To Some Kind Of -^~ @@#&$%^~-.
.-~^%$$@ -^~ Arcane Deity. -~^ @#&$$%^~-.
.-~^%$&@## -~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~-^ ##@&$%^~-.
.-~^%$@# ~-^ We Were Grateful For Its ~^- #@#&$%^~-.
.-~^%$@# ~^- Presence, And Honored It The ^~- #@#&$%^~-.
.....-~^%& ^~- Only Way We Knew How: By ^-~ &%^~-.....
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.-~^%$$$ ...---^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^---... #&$$$%^~-.
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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 ^-~ @&%~~-....
......~^$# ^-~ Internal Routes To Labyrinthine, ^~- #$^~......
.-~^%$## ^~- A Place Among Others Is Easily ~^- ###&$%^~-.
.-~^%$@# ~^- Overlooked. -~^ #@#&$%^~-.
.-~^%%$$$& -~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~-^~ &$$$%%^~-.
.-~^%$@# -^~ So, Basically, That Summer The ^-~ #@#&$%^~-.
.-~^%$@# ^-~ Four Of Us Snuck And Climbed And ~-^ #@#&$%^~-.
....-~%&&& ^~- 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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.-~^%$&@## -^~ Around It, The Seven Toroidal ^-~ ##@&$%^~-.
.-~^%$@# ^-~ Lungs Stacked Outside, And The ^~- #@#&$%^~-.
.-~^%$@@ ^~- Control Room On Top. The Sockets ~^- @@#&$%^~-.
.....-^%$# ~^- For Its Eyes. The Smaller Spires ~-^ #$%^-.....
.-~^%$@@ ~-^ For Radiating Consciousness -~^ @@#&$%^~-.
.-~^%%$&&& .~^ Invitations. -^. &&&$%%^~-.
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.-~^%$@@ ...---^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^---... @@#&$%^~-.
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....-~~^%& ~^- Toppled And Eaten By Machines. ^-~ &%^~~-....
..-~~~^$&@ ^~- After A While, Something New Is -^~ @&$^~~~-..
.-~^%%$$$& ^-~ Conjured In Its Place. It'S A -~^ &$$$%%^~-.
.-~^%$@# -^~ Tiny Maw At First, Shorter Than ~-^ #@#&$%^~-.
.-~^%$@# -~^ Us, And We Let It Be. Our ~^- #@#&$%^~-.
.-~^%$@# ~-^ Journeys Still End At Its Feet. ^~- #@#&$%^~-.
.-~^%$@# ~^-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^-~ #@#&$%^~-.
.-~^%$@# ^~- But Then We Are Betrayed. The -^~ #@#&$%^~-.
.-~^%$## ^-~ New Tower Eats Us. Others Are -~^ ###&$%^~-.
.-~^%$@# -^~ Sucked Inside. New Buildings Are ~-^ #@#&$%^~-.
.-~^%$@# -~^ Manifested Overnight, Only To ~^- #@#&$%^~-.
.......~%& ~-^ 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. ~-^ &&%~......
.-~^%$## -~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^- ###&$%^~-.
.-~^%$@# ~-^ Iirc It'S Currently Owned By ^~- #@#&$%^~-.
.-~^%$#@## ~^- Some Energy drink Baron Who Uses ^-~ ##@#$%^~-.
.-~^%%%% ^~- It To Hold All His Fourty Eight -^~ #&%%%%^~-.
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.-~^%$@# ...---^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^---... #@#&$%^~-.
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