Spell of Apocalypse启示之咒Chapter 1
FROM THE GROUND, the bird was an infinitesimal white speck lost
against the isoluminescent glare of the midday sky. From the perspective
of the seagull, however, the ground and its features were clearly apparent
in all their multiplicity and confusion. Below it now as it circled in its
leisurely bank was the sparkling band of the Tongue Water, to its right
the smoky bulk of the manufacturing district and beyond that the widening
mainland, to its left the great city of Peridol.
FROM THE GROUND, the bird was an infinitesimal white speck lost
against the isoluminescent glare of the midday sky. From the perspective
of the seagull, however, the ground and its features were clearly apparent
in all their multiplicity and confusion. Below it now as it circled in its
leisurely bank was the sparkling band of the Tongue Water, to its right
the smoky bulk of the manufacturing district and beyond that the widening
mainland, to its left the great city of Peridol.