So anyway, they found a dead lamb in front of their delicatessen, with its throat cut open, and the hooves [[ripped from its legs|Blood]]. They tried to stash it away quietly, but some dawn-treading journalist had already gotten an eight by ten, and pretty soon the animal rights people were [[rallying|Rallying]] in front of a giant Teriyaki Chicken poster beneath the //Eat Fresh!// sign.

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So a guy in a pink button-down shirt and a Red Sox cap led the charge across the street. They were going to invade the tower, and presumably vanquish the unholy woman. Red Sox was carrying a [[bat|Bat]].

<<set $spirits = $spirits + 1>>\n<<if $spirits eq 1>>\n//Spirits fighting for our [[souls|Historical]].//\n<<endif>>\n<<if $spirits eq 2>>\n//Spirits fighting for our souls. Or are they all [[against us|Demon]]?//\n<<endif>>\n<<if $spirits gte 3>>\n//Spirits fighting for our souls. Or are they all against us? Are they in my [[mind|Made It]]?//\n<<endif>>\n\n\n

[[Brooklyn Bridge|Yankee Stadium]]

The peasants, naturally [[resenting|Spirits]] his lordship, tried everything from cyanide to drowning to knives to gunshots, but [[nothing worked|Demon]].

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Have you ever heard of the [[Tower of Babel|Big]]?

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<<set $essence = 3>>\nLuckily, God destroyed it for him, so the king [[died in peace|Essence]].

It was my grandmother, actually, when I was [[eight years old|Ponies]]: a buck-toothed, red-headed, French-Kissing girl scout.

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[[Times Square|The Bronx Zoo]]

[[The American Museum of Natural History|The Empire State Building]]

[[Babies|Chicks]]

[[Lojka]]\n[[Kills Things]]\n[[Rasputin]]\n[[Made It]]\n[[Scout]]\n[[Babel]]\n[[New York]]\n[[Favor]]\n\n/**This is a [[test passage|Lojka]] of some kind.**/

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He killed his fiancé, Sophie von Anhalt-Zerbst, because he feared that his [[love|Spirits]] for her would consume him and make him weak. Then he turned the [[entire population|Historical]] of Russia into peasants, forcing them to work in the rice fields [[day and night|Historical]].

I hope I'm around when it happens. I'd really like to get those [[photos|Photos]].

[[The Lincoln Center|Times Square]]

She said she'd kill more people if I didn't [[do as she said|Hung Up]].

I didn't know it was Ms. Lojka's voice; I thought I was simply talking to myself. I was rather [[proud of the idea|Worked]] in fact—proud that nobody else had thought to build such a [[marvelous medieval fortress|Worked]] across the street from Chase International.

I figure it'll creak a little, then sway to the left, then sway to the right, then just come [[crashing right down|Vision]] on Chase International, shattering windows, sending debris flying, and [[killing probably hundreds of people|Hope]].

[[The Empire State Building|The Lincoln Center]]

They say she [[kills|Blood]] things up there. Babies... chicks... everything that's [[innocent|Babies]] and [[pure|Babies]]. Two weeks ago one of the Subway employees found a dead lamb on the sidewalk in front of their--whatever you call Subways... they aren't shops, or restaurants... delicatessen maybe. Yeah: [[delicatessen|Lamb]].

The reason I want to get a photo of that tower falling is because [[I made it|Built It]].

It was a big freakin tower built by some [[African king|King]] thousands of years ago. He wanted to have a [[look at heaven|Essence]], so he thought he'd build himself a ten-thousand-foot [[ziggurat|Ziggurat]].

I took the advice [[to heart|Smoke]], and decided that when I died I would leave behind me the largest collection of [[My Little Ponies|Heaven]] the world had ever seen.

<<set $smoke = 2>>\nI was confident that this plan was [[foolproof|Smoke]].

[[Yankee Stadium|Soul]]

<<set $servant = 3>>\nI didn't, of course--try to interfere. Ms. Lojka scared me pretty bad. She reminded me of a woman who came to me in a [[dream|Servant]] once and sat on my chest and petrified my whole body: she was so cold and ugly and completely evil. Except that woman didn't have [[wings|Wings]], whereas Ms. Lojka did.

Anyway, when the ziggurat was finally finished, this king (whose name, by the way, was Og) realized that it was a [[bane to God|Peace]], because it was so high and so beautiful.

<<set $vision = 4>>\nI figure I have a pretty good chance, because hey, I work at Barnes & Noble, and I carry my camera with me everywhere I go. I figure I'll hear the creaking, turn around, and snap away. Of course, if the tower falls westwardly I'm screwed, but I've got [[the odds|Vision]] on my side.

[[Someone|Grandmother]] once told me that we are what we leave behind.

<<set $blood = $blood + 1>>\n<<if $blood eq 1>>\n//[[Blood|Lamb]].//\n<<endif>>\n<<if $blood eq 2>>\n//Blood. I am heir to the blood I have taken from [[others|Rallying]].//\n<<endif>>\n<<if $blood gte 3>>\n//Blood. I am heir to the blood I have taken from others. But that is [[not me|Rasputin]].//\n<<endif>>

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Whenever it dates from, the thing should have been demolished years ago. Anyone can see it's about to topple, and [[when it does|Vision]], it'll come down with a [[crash|Crash]]. It must be two-hundred feet high, and it's just sitting there in the heart of New York, right across from Subway and Barnes & Noble.

Ms. Lojka

[[I worked hard|Stink]].

by Jordan Magnuson

<<set $servant = 3>>\nBig black wings, with claws sticking out here and there, just like the kind you see on Gothic gargoyle statues. She [[scared me|Servant]] pretty bad.

He chose a ziggurat because in [[those days|King]], before elevators, ziggurats were the easiest kinds of buildings to climb—and when you're talking ten-thousand feet, that kind of thing matters.

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Well, this king was very [[powerful|Essence]], and so he got all the other kings in the area to help him out by sending laborers to work on the ziggurat. Even so, the project took [[three-hundred years|Bane]]. Fortunately, the ozone layer wasn't so thin back then, so people lived a lot longer than they do today.

I learned later, from the [[obituary|Bam]], that the bat was called "The Nowhere King" and was given to Matt (that was his name) by his grandfather for his ninth birthday. Strange name for a bat, if you ask me.

The king and queen of My Little Ponies would be [[so grateful|Foolproof]] to me that they would invite me to spend the rest of [[infinity|Foolproof]] in My Little Pony heaven with them.

"[[Down with the witch!|Down]]" they cried.

That's right: I built that tower [[stone by stone|View]], brick by scorching brick, till it was [[two-hundred feet high|View]], standing for all to see in the heart of New York.

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Then I heard a scream as I walked from the bus stop to my job, and a man fell out of the sky onto a mini cooper that was parked in front of Barnes & Noble. Shattered the windshield. Apparently a suicide. I'm not sure, because I [[didn't stop|Walking]] to look.

... These are the things that make up my soul's structure. And inside—the things that make up my soul's [[substance|Shadows]]—-are the people who walk the streets and tend the delis. I love them all; even people like Matt, protector of the lambs.

Just clutched my camera and kept on walking.

[[The Botanic Gardens|Brooklyn Bridge]]

That's just a historical side note, really. The point is that Rasputin was [[impossible to kill|Peasants]].

Ms. Lojka called me up today and asked me for a [[favor|Hell]].

<<set $spirits = 3>>\nPersonally, I think Rasputin was a [[demon|Spirits]].

As far as I know the tower's been there [[forever|Vision]]. Some say it was built by the Dutch in the [[late sixteen-twenties|Date]], when the city was still called New Amsterdam; others say it's more recent, but fail to give any dates; the craziest speculators maintain that it harkens back to a more ancient age: that the tower is New York City's own [[Stonehenge|Vision]].

<<set $blood = 3>>\nSee, here's the thing: Matt never made it across the street. He turned for a second to beckon his followers, and bam--he was down. A drunk cab driver, seemingly out of nowhere [[splattered him|Blood]] across the pavement. The rally lost momentum after that, and everybody left.

[[The Bronx Zoo|The Botanic Gardens]]

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I built it for the view I guess: who wouldn't want to wake up and look out over Central Park every morning from two-hundred feet up? I heard a [[voice|Voice]] say "build," [[and I built|Servant]].

[[Chicks|Lamb]]

But when it was finished, and I was preparing to move in, a woman from the Bronx approached me and said that the tower was hers, and she was going to live up there and [[kill things|Servant]] in her spare time, and I had better not try and [[interfere|Interfere]]. She had big plans to stink up all of New York City.

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I don't mean that I kind of like it, or something; I don't mean that, given a choice of where to live, hey, it might as well be New York. I mean that I //love// [[New York City|Central Park]]. It's part of my [[soul|Shadows]].

[[Central Park|The American Museum of Natural History]]

<<set $essence = $essence + 1>>\n<<if $essence eq 1>>\n//The [[taste|King]] of reality.//\n<<endif>>\n<<if $essence eq 2>>\n//The taste of reality. Why do so many of us [[want more|Bane]]?//\n<<endif>>\n<<if $essence gte 3>>\n//The taste of reality. Why do many of us want more? We will end up with [[less|New York]].//\n<<endif>>\n\n\n

They kept on that way for a while, until they got so excited that they had to really [[do something|Matt]].

I [[hung up|Clutch]] the phone.

"[[Down with the animal tormentor!|Down2]]"

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I [[love|Love]] New York City.

<<set $smoke = $smoke + 1>>\n<<if $smoke eq 1>>\n//Like a puff of smoke, which appears for a moment and then disappears.//\n<<endif>>\n<<if $smoke gte 2>>\n//Like a puff of smoke, which appears for a moment and then disappears. I should have [[known better|Babel]].//\n<<endif>>\n\n

I told her she could [[go to hell|Kill More]].

Ms. Lojka lives at the top of a [[tall tower|Tower]] that stands like a broken-down, middle-aged sentry in the middle of New York City.

Have you ever heard of [[Rasputin|Sophie]]? He was a self-proclaimed prophet, and king of Russia until nineteen-sixteen; a really [[nasty character|Sophie]].