The twenty four story building loomed at the end of a glimmering line of traffic, its gray and clouded glass façade scattering what it could of the dim filtered sunlight that cut through the haze. Mornings brought the most noxious blankets of smog, enough that he had to keep the air conditioning system in his otherwise deteriorating Buick in fully functional condition. Like everyone else, he appreciated being able to breathe, and the filtration the conditioning unit supplied was the next best thing to a full filtration mask. Only those wholly subsumed souls who lived within walking distance of the towering corporate complexes were exposed to the stuff on a regular enough basis to make the use of the masks a necessity, if not a legal requirement.
Had they passed that law? It was in the news recently, he remembered hearing something… he flicked on the radio. On some mornings the static would make way, for the most part, for whole stretches of time, long enough sometimes to catch the basic drift of news stories. But not this time -- this morning he couldn’t make out anything save for a few shadow voices and ghost murmurs drifting across the white noise.
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