150 Sword Fight: Into The Swamps arc (5)

The cityscape was unapologetically urban, which was to be expected. Unlike the area around the building Arnold had just been inside, there were no trees or city planted blooms next to the roads, just monoliths of concrete soaring out of the sidewalk in an exact grid pattern. At night it was beautiful in its own way, so many lights and people. But everyone relied on the sky to let them know that it wasn't a monochromatic world, just one in which the people were too busy to appreciate the art that the world was trying them to show. For over a couple of generations progress had meant the teaching of specific skill sets to the children of the metropolis to let them live in the beautiful yet often misunderstood, city of Angels.