Upwards Wen Yue (Steven) Yang 68672435 CRWR 200 Assignment 2 Genre Fiction The team would begin the descent today. It would take at least two weeks for us to reach the bottom of the tower, from the spiral platform protruding from the tower’s side. Then another week would pass before we could arrive at the newly discovered lands where we were called to examine the soil and clay. Most workers, including myself, did not go down very often, usually in years, unless something happened. The tower reached for the sky, beyond the clouds and over the stars, approached for the void. It did end. It ended at the very top, at where the construction was continuing. “Are the supply truck meeting us three days later?” Ted asked me. He was my second …show more content…
Probably I’m the only one who’s interested in blocks and soils.” “What, are you going to ask everyone this question?” “Ya! I mean, maybe, just a few, or not. I did ask some workers earlier, but they all said, ‘I don’t know’, so…” “Start the car! We’re leaving!” I ignored him and waved at others, “Get in the car.” “Yes, sir.” The vehicles started again. Have I ever gone somewhere? Over the platform, outside car’s windows, across the mountain ranges? I looked ahead, down at the spiral path, then at the rear mirror – endless trucks and trucks carrying bricks and bricks moving up and up, into the clouds. “I guess, you could do something different than making bricks every day,” I muttered, “Maybe do some paintings on the bricks.” “Excuse me sir, I didn’t hear…” Ted said while driving. “I’m just saying that there are questions that no one really cares about.” More than a week later, we finally reached the bottom. We parked beside the underground research center located beside the tower. The rest of the crew went to rest while Ted and I went for a meeting. The tunnel going to the meeting room was covered in pipes. The facility was more or less a pump station than a research