Picture of a 1000 words...

The town of Edifice, a town filled with natural beauty and habitat. The air just seems different here, cleaner, fresher maybe even has a certain scent to it, who knows, its just good to know that what you're breathing in is so fresh. The town has made an effort to protect the plant species and the animals, not that these animals are endangered or anything like that.

Other than being known for its natural beauty, it is known quite well for its expensive universities. Students from other towns come here in the hopes to fulfill their further education.
Edifice being quite conducive to studying due to the majority of their residents being retirees, there is hardly any need to show off the size of their stereo system or the size of their tyre rims or showoff the size of anything else.

Despite all the natural beauty and clean air , the town hasn't really made an impact on the roadmap, tourists dont seem to come here in big buses in the hordes. Neither is there any advertising of any sort in other towns or cities about the town of Edifice.

The reason for this unpopularity could be due to the most intelligent habitants of the town, its people. The people of Edifice have a certain twist in their nature, in terms of a drink it could range from a twist of lemon to a squeeze of honey, from sour to sweet.

Lets take for example an apartment block located in the centre of town, at the corner of Sane Street and Doubtful Boulevard.

Built in the 1990's for those rich kids that came here to study from far and wide. This building has history, not ancient history but modern history. A cement coloured building, the management probably was too stingy to paint it a decent colour or he just had a bad sense of taste in colour. Known as Building No.23 with a large 23 sign in front of it in bold. From the outside, its not appealing to anyone, looks more like a shabby place where all kinds of "off the record" things go on.
But once you walk through those steel encased wooden doors and listen to it making an acute screeching sound as it closes behind you, you stand in awe in the main lobby of the building.

A chandelier? Why is there a Chandelier in this place, you realise the kids here are filthy rich, and a little money called "donation" probably went towards their "building improvement fund" and all of a sudden the manager decided to just buy a $5000 chandelier, and once you've adjusted you eyes to the ground level again, you see toilets on the right which are out of order, which gets you thinking..what a way to spend money.

If you've noticed, there aren't any people around, thats because you're new here and you've come a little early to get yourself use to the place.

The floor is carpeted with one of those mosaic look alike designs with light emanating from the chandelier over the carpet giving it the five star hotel look. You're impressed but not too much, knowing how much money you spent to stay at a place like this, excluding the money the taxi driver probably ripped off you by taking you through the scenic river drive.

A sling bag on your side and a trolley suitcase trailing behind you, you take little steps looking for something, a phone. It said on the email , if you're here after hours you're supposed to use the phone.

You find the phone, behind a pillar somewhere in the corner, you pick up the receiver and dial the number, its rings....and someone picks it up and after a lot of muffling noise, a guy says;


Who the hell is this?!!


(To be continued...)



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