Nah, it was part of the Labyrinth.... Yggdrasil has a huge labyrinth under it, all through the roots. It's like...thirty forests, all stacked on top of one another, and the ground on top. There's six sections that're all really different. There's the Emerald Grove, which is a pretty normal forest, but more vibrant and lush...then under that's the Primitive Jungle. Everything's wilder there. It's like going waaaaay back in time, before even the Old World. Under that is the Azure Rainforest....everything's blue, there, mostly, it's like being on a different planet. And it's full of water. It starts with just pools of it, then some streams, but on lower floors it's huge lakes, with giant pink flowers floating on the surface...
I guess all the water stops there, though, 'cause the next stratum is the Sandy Barrens. It's a desert. Everything's dry and the trees twist all funny. And under that, there's ruins from the Old World. Ricky said it was a huge metropolis called Tokyo, a thousand years ago. There were buildings bigger than anything I've ever seen, so old they'd crystallized, and everything was covered in plants...
...Under that is the Claret Hollows, though. Those're....like nothing else, anywhere else. I kept seein' them instead of the mansionhouse. They were humid and warm. The walls and floor were soft, squishy...warm and wet sorta moving? They were- they were made of flesh. And there were rocks, white and bony, and the doors were like heart valves, and the smell...
[He shakes his head. Don't get lost in it. That quickly stops being light conversation. Back tot he conversation....]
Etria's not my home, though. The Midgard Library makes a point of raising orphans, and Simon and me went there after we left what was left of Gotham. It's farther fromt he sea than Etria is.
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I guess all the water stops there, though, 'cause the next stratum is the Sandy Barrens. It's a desert. Everything's dry and the trees twist all funny. And under that, there's ruins from the Old World. Ricky said it was a huge metropolis called Tokyo, a thousand years ago. There were buildings bigger than anything I've ever seen, so old they'd crystallized, and everything was covered in plants...
...Under that is the Claret Hollows, though. Those're....like nothing else, anywhere else. I kept seein' them instead of the mansionhouse. They were humid and warm. The walls and floor were soft, squishy...warm and wet sorta moving? They were- they were made of flesh. And there were rocks, white and bony, and the doors were like heart valves, and the smell...
[He shakes his head. Don't get lost in it. That quickly stops being light conversation. Back tot he conversation....]
Etria's not my home, though. The Midgard Library makes a point of raising orphans, and Simon and me went there after we left what was left of Gotham. It's farther fromt he sea than Etria is.