First Contact

When the tower appeared in the midst of the city, it was the homeless who made first contact. The evacuations had begun almost immediately, but those who lived on the streets had their own favorite places to tuck themselves away for protection. These were magical places created of a necessity by paranoid imaginings. These unfortunates were abandoned and left to their own devices, hiding under bridges and in dumpsters.

A handful of days passed under a hard gray sky, but nothing happened. The tower sat overlooking the empty city, impassive and brooding, like it had been there for a thousand years thinking its lofty thoughts.

Hunger and boredom eventually brought out the city's forgotten. Resources had become available in the form of abandoned stores and buildings. It was a windfall of sorts, a close encounter of the scavenging kind. They had been rejected by society and felt they had nothing to lose by approaching and even entering the alien structure. Some of them heard voices bidding them to do so. The first to attempt it was Solar Sam and it is his story that I wish to tell.

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