Bernardo Rao

Au revoir, my love

An ugly concrete cylinder rises above the smoggy clouds to hold up a pleasant restaurant called Le Towarette. One of the last standing bastions of the French Revolutionary Army in the year 2172, Le Towarette was a lookout point for enemy drones, aka “the dragon-birds”, named after an extinct feathered animal capable of flying. The design allowed a 360 degree view of the horizon. The laser cannons could hit dragon-birds 100 miles away. It displayed no double glazed windows back then, and it was operated by killer robots, hence its original name - The Tower of Death.