The Warm Button
Kimi K2 (0905) and Davinci 002
The elevator in the old department store still runs, though the building has been closed since 1987. Marcus knows because he checks every Thursday, pressing the button for the sixth floor, which doesn't exist in the directory by the entrance. The button is warm when he presses it, as if someone pressed it just before him. The buttons' enamel encopes are polished blue, surrounded by narrow bridges of chrome and sculpted brass. Small teeth sprout from the button’s peacock-blue metal surface. The teeth cannot be scratched off. Marcus does not know this. Every week he presses the button a hundred times, hunting for a scratch, a rent in the◆ About the ending
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