Rx: a Tale of Electronegativity
“After they’d stepped through the immense steel portal -- the sheer presence of the monstrously solid thing still throbbing dully behind him – Red turned to find nothing at all. Just a vast and wholly empty square.
The clearing was forty feet at its widest point, and half that much again long. Its far end terminated at two wide sets of stairs surrounding a thin central path, which ran up at an angle for a few hundred feet, then jackknifed around a wall and disappeared from view. Red dimly re...cognized the flat, empty space’s dimensions as belonging to one of the central stairwell’s gargantuan landings, located midway between floors; the steps and promenade must have been the original walkways, as laid down untold decades ago. There were no jury-rigged tenements here; no micro-bars crowding the path; no food stalls suspended from the ceiling by lift cables. Even the telltale stink of the ‘Wells – an odorous slurry of cooking grease, graphite, sweat and decaying pressure-board – was conspicuously absent. This was merely one landing and the subsequent connecting flight of a central stairwell, in their original condition.MoreLess
The clearing was forty feet at its widest point, and half that much again long. Its far end terminated at two wide sets of stairs surrounding a thin central path, which ran up at an angle for a few hundred feet, then jackknifed around a wall and disappeared from view. Red dimly re...cognized the flat, empty space’s dimensions as belonging to one of the central stairwell’s gargantuan landings, located midway between floors; the steps and promenade must have been the original walkways, as laid down untold decades ago. There were no jury-rigged tenements here; no micro-bars crowding the path; no food stalls suspended from the ceiling by lift cables. Even the telltale stink of the ‘Wells – an odorous slurry of cooking grease, graphite, sweat and decaying pressure-board – was conspicuously absent. This was merely one landing and the subsequent connecting flight of a central stairwell, in their original condition.MoreLess
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