The dense greenery of the jungle suddenly stops and opens up to huge chasm. At the bottom runs a wide river. On the other side dozens of giant orange rock pillars a rise from the landscape, over a hundred meters high, their tops about level with the jungle edge where Nyla is standing. The height is dizzying. Some of the pillars are quite narrow, only a dozen or so meter in diameter. Others especially the ones farther away span hundreds of meters.

About a kilometer in the distance a city, appears to stretch over the pillars. Bridges, cable carts and buildings span the drops between the towering rock formations. Even the smallest structures appear to be larger than any Nyla has seen in Havenbrook or even in Polaris. Giant spires connected by walkways, echoing the very landscape that they are build on.

Tracking trough the jungle had felt like weeks, but in reality had only taken a couple of days. It had been hot and humid and for Nyla, who is used to a cold and arid climate, in a sense a sort of claustrophobic experience. Of course she had no problems with small rooms, the shared quarters on the ship had been no problems, her home wasn't really big, but she was used to to outsides being the freezing, wide, white open tundra's of the Snowdrift steps. Not this hot, dense and dark jungle.

It had taken everything from her to not end up in a panic attack. The constant constricting feeling almost overwhelming her. But mainly thanks to her traveling party she finally made it out.

"Finally!" She exclaimed "I feel like I can breathe! I thought that it would never end! This was the worst day of my life!"

"Yeah, it's my least favorite part of the trip as well" Corvus says.

"I hate plants, I hate trees, I hate bugs. Please. Please now we -have- to take an airship back, I am not doing that again!"

"We'll maybe not an airship, but we will have to travel around the jungle, trough the desert when we go home, no way we will be able to drag all the stuff we came to get trough there"

"Also fine, I just don't want to walk trough that awful place ever again. Why didn't we do that in the first place anyway?"

"Because it would have taken weeks longer, and now we are here are al ready" Anno points to the city in the distance. "We are done, you don't have to do it again, stop bickering."

Nyla focuses her attention to the metropole on the horizon, and the groups begins making their way towards it. A series of bridges, some made of rope others made of stone connect the pillars, some of the pillars have have nothing on them, but most have a couple of houses and fruit trees on top. A lot of the buildings are made of stone, something that Nylas had never seen before. In Havenbrook all buildings are made out of scrap metal, and in Polaris the majority seemed to be a combination of wood and scraps. On some of the bigger pillars they pass by people have cultivated land, where they grow wheats and vegetables.

After passing over a dozen or so bridges they come across a pillar with thirty buildings surrounding a small town square. One of the building has a sign of a cable cart. Inside they are greeted by a friendly woman in her fourties'.

"Hi there strangers! Welcome to Astrafall, are you guys new in town?"

"Sure are!" Curvus takes the lead.

"Where are you guys from?"

"Havenbrook, far far north, passed Polaris"

"Never heard of it, big place?"

"Not at all, maybe a hundred or so people or so, all nice folk tho so we can't complain"

"Sounds lovely"

"Bit could though"

"I can imagine if it is passed Polaris. What brings you all the way down here? And how long are you staying"

"Probably a week. We come to visit the tech mages, and buy some supplies"

"Oeh the tech mages, fancy. If you are staying a full week I would recommend the 7-day gondola pass, it's 10 cred per person. Otherwise it will be 1 cred per person per trip."

"I've been called many things in my live but fancy isn't one of them" Corvus laughs as he pays the woman the 60 creds, and she hands over six enchanted stones with a cable cart engraved on it.

"Just show these at any gondola station in the city and they will let you ride it for the next week"

They thank the woman and walk further inside, there they find a cabin already waiting for them. The six of them take place in the seats and with a shock the cabin starts comes to motion.

Nyla stares out of the window, below her in to the hundred meter drop. She gets a strange in easy feeling. Better focus on something else. She throws her attention to the city before her. The buildings have a very different architecture than those in Havenbrook. Everything is very round, smooth and tall. Circular beige towers ranging from four up to dozens of stories tall, with a wide variety in widths. They have arched windows and doors, with half round balconies. Blue doomed roofs top of the buildings.

The cable car enters trough a hole on the 3 floor of one of the smaller buildings. A feeling of excitement fills her stomach, and she practically shaking. Corvus notices, and smiles. "Ready?"

Nyla nods, she steps out of the cart, leaves the building and in to the streets of Astrafall.