8. feigning big city, chapter one continued from princess bride

Surreptitiously, I seized this opportunity to expropriate myself and unfasten on the patio. Endemic to Stereofish was an elevated patio on a parking lot cornering decussate streets, brindled with multi-level parking garages, dance clubs and banks espousing very unaesthetic architecture. The view was blunt and lusterless certainly, nevertheless there was still something almost inexplicably resplendent surrounding it all. The lights of traffic and the teeming rabble tramping back and forth were curiously magnetic. It was smallish town feigning big city.