"The moon rises above the willow tree, and people meet after dusk."
This was the first time Xu Shu walked under the moonlight since the integration of his wisdom from two lifetimes.
The moon appeared the same as it had been in his teens and his twenties, sometimes waxing or waning, but never incomplete—a dazzling, large orb suspended in the sky like a huge light bulb.
He was now in the central area of the Safe Zone within the city, where he could clearly see the Astronomy Association circling the base of the Star Tower.
It was an immense architectural structure like a circular star dome railroad—"◎"—
Exuding a sense of science fiction from a future world while also heavily steeped in the aura of scholarship, as if it had fused together the best aspects of the ancient and the modern.
