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The Japanese language expert, whose name is Mishi, is shunned by the others and kicked onto the staircase. With nowhere else to go, he chooses a direction. Up. After fourteen turns he comes to an indoor croquet range. Astro-turf grass, bright red balls, comfortable benches, reading material racks, a small TV... But apart from the television set everyone is abandoned and rusted. There are four windows looking into a foggy, night sky. Mishi wanders over to the window. It is cold. Very cold. Perhaps this section of the Staircase Room Tower doesn't look over Earth at all. Few places on Earth are -this- cold...
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