El’Iaris peered curiously at the human standing slack-jawed before her. In her absence, the human world had changed unrecognisably. It was a completely different world from what she had gotten to know millennia ago, painted over harshly in grey and black. Humans lived crammed into square, white constructions, squeezed in together in small spaces beyond its capacity like bees and ants. Compared to the general population, the leaders of this current society seemed to live spread across several grand towers; rectangular, spheric, and pointy in shape and black in colour, covering half the sky for those far below on the ground. The bewildered human before her also lived under one of these towers, in a small, white square buried in miscellaneous filth. El’Iaris appraised him slowly, satisfact

