Father and Daughter

Amid vast plains of dried-up earth with sandy patches, a set of orange-red solid rock mountains stood tall like a monument built by nature itself.

There was a rather large and lavish palace, built atop a relatively low one with a flat top, in the middle of the mountain range.

The palace, in contrast with the surrounding area was full of vivid green, a small lake in the center of its garden creating a waterfall into a cave leading into darkness below. 

The lower height of the mountain it stood on caused it to be enclosed in natural 'walls', concealing it from being visible at a distance even in such open prairies, and only a small tip of a tall pagoda tower standing next to the waterfall peeked out.

Though strangely, there were no visible roads or steps leading to the palace, one side of which stretched toward a steep cliff.