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Dusk over a jagged skyline; structures of steel, glass, and concrete punch their way to the stars, dominating the lost horizon. Their windows reflect the dying rays like so many lighthouses, their beacons aflame against the night. The skies, torn with ragged strips of cloud, pale from a hazy, smothering grey to ever-darkening shades of brown; deepening shadows that are punctuated and emphasised by legions of electric street lamps, flaring into life for the evening ahead. Every ignition brings forth another erratically-flickering globe of green-tinted, sulphurous light that emanates a sickly glow, each a dying firefly in the heaving lan...