Nine minutes later, Skater placed the call to the Johnson from a pay telecom at the corner of Denny Way and Tenth Avenue. Aztechnology’s Northwest Complex stood out from the other buildings surrounding it. Modeled on the religious structures of ancient Mexico, all of the complex’s housing looked unique and mysterious, and a little foreboding. Dwarfing it all, the pyramidal main structure crouched among the smaller buildings. Huge friezes lined the walls, carved from half-meter thick artificially grown quartz crystals into the shapes of ancient Aztec and Mayan gods. By day, the eighty carved slabs looked gray, but at night white and alabaster lights brought the friezes to stunning life.