[The warm bead rolls into her palm. Its light swells up brightly into her eyes, consuming her vision.
If she has never been a bird, she is like one now. High above the ground in the sky she soars, brushing the very bottom of misty clouds. The air is surprisingly tepid, almost unnaturally so even at this height.
Far below, the surface of the earth has been cut rough and left mostly bald on far sides, clay deserts stretching what must be hundreds of miles which meet in the middle at a lush crop of beautiful green grass and trees. The area is peppered by a tiny town with nothing more than cabin-style houses, and a church, and the sound of children squealing with play. Humans who have found one respite in the middle of barren land.
The dirt road out leads into the distance. Miles away is another, larger town unluckily planted on bare ground in two lines like an old Western. More than houses and a church, there must be a store, a bar, a town hall. A settlement of humans fortified a bit harder through commerce.
Out of place and eclipsing these on the horizon are massive interstate highways, though chunks of them here and there have fallen away to leave gaping holes behind. They lead toward something far from where Gray is hovering, and when she is sucked in that direction, her speed is immense even if it isnt jarring. The dark speck grows as she nears, and a futuristic city rises up and looms into view. Skyscrapers tower over the smaller industrial buildings, and the rooflines on the outer edge are dotted by cannons housing hydrolic barrels which definitely don't shoot traditional ammunition.
But it's humans who are coming and going here now. In cars, in hovering crafts, in space ships coming from the other side of the world. Aside for the ones who have hidden themselves deep in the earth, sleeping eternally, the ruling vampires have been eradicted. The only remnants of their existence is the technology left behind.
Gray's peripheral begins glowing brighter, and the warm light encroaches inward until she's blind like before. The light fades, along with the warmth, and then she is left in the alley with D again, eyes momentarily sore with afterimage.]
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If she has never been a bird, she is like one now. High above the ground in the sky she soars, brushing the very bottom of misty clouds. The air is surprisingly tepid, almost unnaturally so even at this height.
Far below, the surface of the earth has been cut rough and left mostly bald on far sides, clay deserts stretching what must be hundreds of miles which meet in the middle at a lush crop of beautiful green grass and trees. The area is peppered by a tiny town with nothing more than cabin-style houses, and a church, and the sound of children squealing with play. Humans who have found one respite in the middle of barren land.
The dirt road out leads into the distance. Miles away is another, larger town unluckily planted on bare ground in two lines like an old Western. More than houses and a church, there must be a store, a bar, a town hall. A settlement of humans fortified a bit harder through commerce.
Out of place and eclipsing these on the horizon are massive interstate highways, though chunks of them here and there have fallen away to leave gaping holes behind. They lead toward something far from where Gray is hovering, and when she is sucked in that direction, her speed is immense even if it isnt jarring. The dark speck grows as she nears, and a futuristic city rises up and looms into view. Skyscrapers tower over the smaller industrial buildings, and the rooflines on the outer edge are dotted by cannons housing hydrolic barrels which definitely don't shoot traditional ammunition.
But it's humans who are coming and going here now. In cars, in hovering crafts, in space ships coming from the other side of the world. Aside for the ones who have hidden themselves deep in the earth, sleeping eternally, the ruling vampires have been eradicted. The only remnants of their existence is the technology left behind.
Gray's peripheral begins glowing brighter, and the warm light encroaches inward until she's blind like before. The light fades, along with the warmth, and then she is left in the alley with D again, eyes momentarily sore with afterimage.]