The wide white jade gates of the grand main hall swung open, and the crowd of returning players poured out onto the open avenues of the great floating metropolis.
Above their heads, the firmament was not bounded by dirty grey smog or the suffocating ceiling of an apartment block.
It was a vast, open expanse of clean azure sky, broken only by wandering ribbons of white mist and the slow, heavy drift of floating islands linked together by chains of ancient dark iron.
ThickThighsSaveLives stepped out onto the polished flagstones, his boots clicking against stone that held not a single speck of dust.
He stopped dead in his tracks, his eyes darting from left to right, his mouth hanging slightly open as he took in the sheer grandeur of the Boundless Sky City.
