by HappyHappyHierophant » 02/26/2012 2:24 AM
We might start with the setting: GAIUS Biotechnologies Inc., a grey cement building caught in between style of Bauhaus and Deconstructivism, with a thick, lush, high hedge running consistently around each side of the lot except for a single entrance off the main road. Three of the smooth gray walls sat perpendicular to each other, but the fourth wall, facing the parking lot was slanted sideways, covered from the black steel cornice rimming the roof down the twenty-seventh, down, down, down to the fifth, fourth, third, and second stories with jet black glossy shaded windows. The second floor overhung over the first, with a small shaded area in front of the entrance with black grated benches, and a small abstract fountain with water gurgling down from the peaked top. The architecture was thoroughly beautiful, and yet several measures had been made to ensure that the building was secluded as possible from human eye. And then there were the cameras, white boxes with black lenses, leaving no corner or crevice unseen or unaccounted for. You entered at your own risk, you left quickly as possible.