CHAPTER 36The third floor of the transceiver building was a mash-up of the first and second floors. Rooms and offices were walled off with drab-looking dry wall along the periphery of the building, while the open center area overlooking the atrium glowed with the light of the plasma that flowed through the cubes. Hanging above the atrium, suspended from the apex of the dome, was a house-size sphere filled with spinning bands of golden energy. It reminded Mara of Jupiter without the red spot. Columns constructed of the same translucent material as the cubes on the second floor ran along the three corners of the atrium and converged in the dome above the sphere. Pipes of plasma could be seen inside them, funneling power and signals to the radiant globe to be sent out into the city. Walking

