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“Ari, a bomb went off in the lobby Your fourth-floor office iped out I’ has to come down”

“Not necessarily” I stood and returned to the photos, grabbing a red est picture of the heart of the Lux, I said, “The night the hotel was on fire, I saw this incredibly eerie si to the photo, I drew a circle around the lobby “There’s a huge, gaping hole right here It reon after the plane crashed into it on 9/11”

“Yeah, that was all jacked up”

“But they didn’t have to bring down the entire Pentagon, post-collapse They had to rebuild the daed portion, but not the entire structure So, yes, the lobby of the Lux, the ad, and the hotel suites in the east wing that were destroyed will have to be restored, but ”

“And thatproject? And when did you becoed resort?”

“I’ source I have a list of the professionals Dane worked with and I can hire the, whatever I have all the original schematics from Dane’s files, and while I won’t be able to replace every fixture he’d had specifically crafted for the lobby, I can come up with close replicas and other items that complement his vision”

Kyle studiedthe idea, I could see, but not loving it, either Finally, he asked, “Does Dane even want the Lux rebuilt?”

“I don’t know He doesn’t talk about the hotel It is literally the one and only thing he won’t discuss with me”

“Maybe there’s a reason for that”

“Maybe,” I agreed “But remember when Amano drove you and me out there and he said that Dane would probably just have all the other buildings and the rest of the resort mowed down and he’d sell off the land? If there wasn’t a 10,000 Lux the way Dane had envisioned it, then there wouldn’t be one at all?”

“Yeah, so?” Kyle asked skeptically

“Don’t you think that’s a co more extraordinary than that hotel?”

“It was pretty astonishing,” he concurred

“It still is With the exception of our ain

Kyle shook his head “You’re forgetting about all the scorched grounds from the fire And shit, Ari The fountains are all ruined from the debris that struck them and there’s more metal and marble in the treetops than there are branches Where the trees weren’t ripped out of the ground fro pieces of the Lux, that is”