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+	Ted wandered off as he heard sirens approach the crumbling office. His
+office was a part of a sparse lot of buildings in the sparse tundra of
+Underhelm, a small town on the outskirts of Dance City. The nearest neighbor to
+his office, a tall but sterile, empty building, simply concrete, glass,
+insulation, drywall, and plenty of carpet and flammable internal bits to start
+a blaze, had a sign advertising its potential as a center of operations or call
+center or something business or another that Ted didn't have the capacity to
+care about.
+	He didn't know where he got the jerrycan, and didn't know how it still
+had any petrol in it, not to mention how it was still full. Ted kicked down the
+fashionable but laughably flimsy double doors to the office, then the next pair
+of doors past the entryway. The interior looked like it would look really good
+if it was set on fire. Ted angled the can to pour a thin stream of gasoline as
+he walked from room to room on the ground floor. He admired the new-car smell,
+the gasoline aroma, the new-wall scent, the benzene draw, the new tables and
+chairs and light fixtures and Cisco-branded IP phones and the pattern on the
+carpet and the sharp geometry of the modernist architecture and soon he was
+back in the lobby, having completed a loop. Like a soldier, he turned
+anticlockwise and continued out of the building, carving a petroleum circle
+into the dead grass surrounding the lifeless vessel.
+	Ted struggled with his lighter. It was a disposable Bic that was nearly
+out of butane. After a minute of clicking he was able to get a flame for a
+moment and lit the gas trail. He watched the little bead of entropy follow the
+path and split out into three, two following the circle and one cautiously
+approaching the edifice. The brush and the building caught fire over a period
+of a couple minutes and the fire roared to life.
+	"Must not have been up to code, that." Ted whispered to himself. "Quite
+a lot of form, though. Now it finally serves a function."
+
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