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Natch!10Meanwhile, Jean was shuffling off the elevators at TH78. For asecond, she thought that she had exited the building and enteredthe rain forest. Huge ferns sprouted tall in the sunlit space.Greedy, twisty vines with big, shiny, emerald leaves climbedevery available surface. The moist air was sweet with the scent ofjasmine. A fine mist sprayed down onto the great green leavesfrom a waterfall that seemed to start at least four or five floorsabove. It was difficult to estimate as the top of the stream twistedout of view with the curve of the TH tower.Destiny was not happy about the mist. She complained that ittook all the poof out of her new hairdo which, according to EWA,was %u201call the rage.%u201d Jean watched her try to shield her beehive dofrom the mist with file folders as she disappeared around thecorner. Jean studied the signage outside the wading pool at thebase of the waterfall until she found the office of her designgroup and turned left, then right. In point of fact, the wayfindingsignage wasn%u2019t all that helpful. She ended up stopping twice toask before she%u2019d even made it past the first set of restrooms. Herfreshly caffeinated synapses tapped a quickening drumbeat ofOMG%u2019s. She meandered down what could only be described as aforest path with trodden leaves, roots, mosses, mushrooms andother plant matter lining its surface. Along the way, any numberof birds whisked past, delivering mail and memoranda. A troop ofhowler monkeys sat in the branches high above them, eating figsand howling at the morning bluster. A hummingbird pausedmomentarily to hover just in front of her, showing interest in theappliqued flower on her jacket lapel. It looked at the flower andthen at Jean, seemingly put out by the clear absence of nectar.With hardly a blink, the hummingbird flew off.As she walked down the path, any number of side paths veeredthis way and that toward the offices and workspaces of thosewho toiled in THAT. Jean was immensely curious about each butwas too keen on finding the design office to be able to peer too