she kissed the bend in his elbow and lowered it to the mattress before reaching for his left arm . they came around the street corner and there spread out before them in all its 48 floors of magnificent splendor was the majestic circular structure they were seeking gleaming in the sun from all the glass and steel . riley turned to us , an amused look on his face . first a dull green , a violent orange , a fiery blue , and finally a blazing silver . 