“Chak"

Inna skyscraper looks like a main office bank acts like a bank, smells like a bank but is actually Preservation Control you use a Dremchak coin badge to unlock an elevator up to the twenty-third floor muzaked Beatles on the way up.

Doors slide open into a dark space darker still the doors closing behind you.

The area is lit by flickering lights come from over there so you move toward them. You come around a corner. It’s a towering wall of screens, television pictures beamed from a million security cameras, a million black mirror eyes, everywhere cams beamed from everywhere, the screens running off into either shadowed horizon and you go weak in the knees from the sheer awe of it all.

And there’s a chair, seems small in front of the screens, but it’s one of them real serious jobs used by big business executives and it has its back to you.

You can kinda see the top of a head appears to be a purplish tattered hood. You stop, the vibe suddenly wrong, the smell of burning plastic…

On the screens a jet slams into a tower, a loop, same image over and over and over the jet slamming into the tower flames explode out debris rains and the jet slams into the tower.

A not-human hand appears places a half-eaten burger onna console next to the chair plucks at some fries. Thing’s hand disappears, second later reappears, picks up a drink inna sweaty cola container slurps at some pop.

And your wide, shell-shocked eyes are drawn back to the screens you watch the jet explode into the side of the tower one more fucking time and the creature in front of you chuckles softly.