+ If you are here for reading, skip past the outline. +
++ "Next stop: Center Square" + Annie looks up. That's the station she has to get off at. She only + needs to be at work in the afternoon so she decided to get the manual for + Jack. +
++ The train comes to a halt in the station. Annie steps out onto the + platform. Few people are around at this time. She glances at the clock + next to the train display: 10:17 AM. The light on the display switches to + the next train and the digits for the time of arrival start flipping over. + Is there a more elegant way to describe the train + station displays of yesteryear? The door chime sounds and the + doors close. Annie starts to walk. The train begins to hum and starts to + move. She follows the roughly three other people towards the exit. +
++ Annie walks down the stairs and steps onto the square. It is brightly + illuminated by a large glowing sphere made of yellow and brown glass + tiles suspended on steel cables hanging from four office complexes that + tower over the rest of the buildings. To the right is the library, a + large building with a facade of sandstone blocks. The front features + large pillars and a staircase spanning the entire width of the building + making it look like an ancient temple. The wall behind the pillars has + multiple rows of windows revealing that the building has multiple stories. +
+
+ Annie makes her way up the stairs and enters through the large wooden
+ doors. She walks up to the counter.
+ "Hello, how may I help you today?" The guy behind the counter
+ smiles. "Borrowing the next stack of fantasy books?", he asks.
+
+ "Uhm... Actually, no", Annie replies as she takes her library
+ card and a piece of paper out of her bag. "I have a quite unusual
+ request. I am looking for" - she glances at the piece of paper -
+ "a manual for a B three three F Y dash A F bunker door."
+ The guy types into his terminal for a moment. Annie places her library
+ card on the counter. With a worried look, he turns back to her:
+ "I'm afraid, that information has recently been classified.
+ There is a note about terrorism in here."
+ "So there is no way to get it?"
+ He musters her for a second, then he takes the card and scribbles
+ something on it before putting it back.
+ "I can check you against a list of people with security clearance.
+ One moment, I'll get it."
+ He gestures and nods towards the exit. Then, he turns around and walks
+ towards a door on the left, seemingly taking his sweet time. Annie gets
+ the message, grabs her library card and makes a swift exit. Just as she
+ leaves, she hears him call out to someone else:
+ "Dorothy, she left. What do I put on the list?"
+ heavy door falls shut, Annie hurries back to the
+ train station and gets on the first train that comes, she takes out her
+ library card and checks the note - such and such station, 10:30 PM
+
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