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Mockweep is in a bathrobe. He's wearing very comfortable slippers. In one hand, he is holding a delicious cup of bizarre, unidentifiable tea.

It seems like tea.

It's pretty close to being like tea.

Very herbaceous.

And in his other hand, he is holding a newspaper unread.

He's not reading the newspaper right now because he's too busy staring out the grand

windows of his hotel penthouse solarium, looking past a menagerie of beautiful potted flowers

and vines, hanging from planters along the ceiling and walls, looking at a city unlike any he has ever seen

unlike ha ha ha hey that was unintentional but that's very cool speaking of unlike everything here is

unlike anything he's ever seen because everything here is unlike. All right, that's enough with that pun.

Let's move on. It's a good pun. The windows in front of him offer a grand view in spite of the fact that they are

quite thick and slightly pitted with the mica that has collided with them over the years, scratches that

build up. They're thick because they're armored windows, basically bulletproof glass.

And the whole city that he's looking at is similarly armored.

It is built and designed with basically one main goal in mind to protect the city and its

inhabitants from Sharp Mica, which is everywhere.

But in addition to being a highly secure city, which is everywhere. Help here.

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