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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. \-~ ##@#&$\-~.
.~-\@### \-~----------------------------------\~- ###@#&\-~.
.-\$@### \~- It Predated Us By Many Years, ~\- ###@#&$\-.
.~-\$@## ~\- 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. ~\. #@@#&$\-~.
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.....~-\&@ .~\ In Twenty fourteen, The Tower Is \-~ @&\-~.....
.~-\$&@@ -\~ Toppled And Eaten By Machines. \~- @@#&&$\-~.
.~-\$@@# \-~ 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. \-~ ##@#&$\-~.
...~~-\$#@ -\~----------------------------------\~- @#$\-~~...
.~-\$### \-~ 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 ~\- @&$\~.....
....~~\# .~- Cars..... ~-. ##&\~~....
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