My boyfriend was the first person to notice it. It's a large cone-shaped room on top of one of the new pricey hotels along Rene-Levesque, in Montreals business district.
"It's a pulsing LED of some sort," he pointed out. "What could possibly be in there?"
We theorized about it as a boardroom for hopped-up business people; some kind of indicator to show changing temperature; maybe just a secret disco room?
For several weeks, the glowing room at the very top would catch my eye when I ventured further south than usual.
It wasn't until my boyfriend's visiting family came into town that I was able to further investigate. Meeting up with his folks, we began walking towards the glowing room.
"You're staying nearby? Wait, here? This is your hotel? The one with the glowing room? Can we go up there?" It turns out we couldn't go up to the top. We couldn't even get close. The room-key designated which floor we could visit, and no more. Even going up to the outdoor pool and peering up the side of the hotel didn't help. The glowing room was a solid 6 floors away.
Before leaving on the last night, I was determined to mine more information out. To my surprise, the front desk-clerk had very little to say about the enormous beacon on top of her workplace. She explained that she had never been up there - and neither had any of the staff she knew. The glowing room was part of a private residence. Only the person who owned the property and the technician had keys. "Besides," she said "I don't think it is actually a room at all. It's kind of a thing - only the technician knows. We can't go there at all".
What kind of thing could take up the cornermost part of a hotel and glow multiple colours throughout the night was one of those questions only one of 2 keys could answer - I suppose I'll never know. It seems like one of those secret society question that only gets answered at the highest level.
I maintain it's a secret disco society. Dance one, millionaires. Dance on.
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