The point where the city met the forest was controversial at best. The official boundary is where the concrete paths abruptly end though the residents say that it begins much farther back and that the apartment blocks right up to the main road are all fake, just fancy oversized pots to hide how far in the forest has come.
Everyone who has heard of the city understands that every alley leads to the forest eventually. Anyone who has been to the city will quite happily tell you that this isn't quite correct - everything leads to the forest eventually, some ways sooner than others.
They will tell you that if you peer into any apartment window you will only see the forest and that if you peer close enough or for long enough you will see exactly what lives inside those buildings. They talk about great shadowy things whose horns spiral into shapes that can't possibly exist on a natural being, humans who have their animal companions sewn to their fingertips so that they may never become lost, saplings who use their branches like clawed hands to drag themselves up their older and more established counterparts in search of sunlight.
Everyone who has heard of the city understands that every alley leads to the forest eventually. Anyone who has been to the city will quite happily tell you that this isn't quite correct - everything leads to the forest eventually, some ways sooner than others.
They will tell you that if you peer into any apartment window you will only see the forest and that if you peer close enough or for long enough you will see exactly what lives inside those buildings. They talk about great shadowy things whose horns spiral into shapes that can't possibly exist on a natural being, humans who have their animal companions sewn to their fingertips so that they may never become lost, saplings who use their branches like clawed hands to drag themselves up their older and more established counterparts in search of sunlight.
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