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#£#*%:~,,, :,~ 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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#£#*%:~,,, :,~ 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 ~:, ,,~:%*#£##
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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 ,~: ,,~:%*#£##
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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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##£#*%:~,, :,~ 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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