Yrene Towers Novels & Stories

That afternoon, Summer found herself in the revolving restaurant on the top floor of Xomus Tower. The space was modern and luxurious, with floor-to-ceiling glass walls that offered a breathtaking view of the cityscape from 990 feet above. Xomus Tower, a collaborative project between the Quigley and Camberwell families, was known not just for its impressive height but also for the unique feature on its top floor. The floor rotated slowly—a result of the mechanical separation between the rooftop and the building structure—allowing diners to enjoy a panoramic view of the city as they dined.

The nurse gasped as she reread the address and raised her eyes again to look at the captivating residential area. A cluster of eight identical high-rise towers stood side by side, colored dark gray, with balconies full of flower pots. Greenery all around them. There were benches scattered on the compound, parks across from each tower with swings, and slides. A woman walked past them with a Diór bag and their eyes popped out of their socket.

The night air at the base of Vane Tower was thick with the suffocating scent of rain and the distant, ozone-heavy aftermath of the EMP. The skyscraper loomed over the Thames like a jagged shard of obsidian, a monument to the Vane family’s centuries of unbridled greed and blood-stained legacy. While the rest of Mayfair was still struggling to bring its secondary grids online—a sea of black stone and desperate silence—the tower pulsed with a low, menacing crimson light. Its private, off-grid generators hummed with a defiant, mechanical arrogance, a heartbeat of power in a dead city.

There was the tower, that rose above the ground in the smearing colors by the night and the risen beauty by day- -there were the birds that made only the music that pleased their ears -the chirping in the evergreen trees of Renné. There were these beautiful things that stood out, that made the city a lot brighter- all of which Zach Harrison Dempsey hated so much. Slumped by the corner of one of the age old buildings of renaissance was Zach, his arms sunk into the soft duvet that lined across his wide bed. This close to three hundred pound teenager, had always risked the fact that he was close to being bed ridden, as he still gorged on some leftover pizza from the night before-

People on the street below looking up. The presenter was talking quickly. "The Virex Commerce Tower, owned by Lycan billionaire Aurelian Virex, is currently experiencing what sources on the ground are describing as a significant fire on the upper floors. The building houses the regional offices of several major pack trading companies as well as the private offices of Virex Industries itself. At this stage there is no confirmation of casualties, but emergency services have asked the surrounding streets to be cleared…" I was already on my feet. I looked at the door he had walked out of twenty minutes ago.

Chapter 131 The Kane Industries tower gleamed like a diamond against the night sky, every window ablaze with light. Inside the grand ballroom on the fortieth floor, crystal chandeliers cast golden reflections across the sea of New York's elite who had gathered for the gala celebrating the Phoenix Grid launch. Tomorrow, the city's power system would change forever.

I said nothing. He drank his coffee. We drove. Meridian Street runs through the center of the financial district the way a spine runs through a body — everything else organized around it, everything else aware of it, without anyone having to explain why. The Keller-Vale tower sits at the north end of it, forty-two floors of black glass and steel that catches the morning light differently depending on the angle, which means at six-fifty-eight in winter it is almost entirely dark against the sky and looks less like a building and more like a decision someone made and could not take back.

Valkyrie said, with absolutely no discernible emotion. "It's enormous," Denice said. "It's adequate." "Valkyrie. There are towers." "There are four towers," Valkyrie said. "The eastern one has a structural issue so we don't use it. You can have the one facing the forest if you want a view." Denice looked at her. Something in her expression did a small, complicated thing. "You're giving me a tower." "I'm noting that it's available." "That's the same thing."