Fury

Earth seemed even more gorgeous from above than it ever had been before. Swirls of white clouds, rushes of blue oceans, endless expanses of greenery, it wasn't as fanciful as some other planets, but it was perfect in its simplicity… at least for the most part. 

There was one part of the blue-green planet that wasn't different from the rest, and that was a singular tree so large that it was visible even from the depths of space, the very same Ascension Tree where the core of the Empire lay. 

Last time Leonel had seen it, it was barely the height of a tall skyscraper, but now it made mountains seem small and insignificant. If not for the terraforming technology of Earth, even the moon's orbit would be interrupted by it.