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##£&£†==-, =-= Benevolent Spire, Towering Well -== ,-==†£&£##
#£&£†==-,, -== Above Our Tallest Trees. It Was -== ,,-==†£&£#
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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 =-= ,,,,,,-==†
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&£†==-,,,, -== 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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£†==-,,,,, =-= 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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#£&£†==-,, ==- Control Room On Top. The Sockets ==- ,,-==†£&£#
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&£†==-,,,, =-= For Radiating Consciousness -== ,,,,-==†£&
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=-,,,,,,,, ==- Toppled And Eaten By Machines. =-= ,,,,,,,,-=
==-,,,,,,, ==- After A While, Something New Is -== ,,,,,,,-==
†==-,,,,,, =-= Conjured In Its Place. It'S A -== ,,,,,,-==†
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&£†==-,,,, -== Us, And We Let It Be. Our ==- ,,,,-==†£&
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=-,,,,,,,, =-= Outside, And We Get Beaten Up A -== ,,,,,,,,-=
-,,,,,,,,, -== Few Times, And Stop Going. =-= ,,,,,,,,,-
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