Past the enormous gates, the scenery took the Lords for a loop.
Literally.
The streets were unnaturally bent, twisted into spiraling formations that made it hard to see where they were going.
The curved paths did not lead where they were supposed to, often ending where they started.
Buildings were not exclusively erected from the ground up. In places, the land was angled like a wall, and in extreme cases, it even looped toward the sky.
Michael looked up only to find more landscape stretching above him.
He looked down and saw the cosmos itself, as if the world beneath him had vanished entirely.
Notably, the golden fountains often found in the outer district were present in the inner ring as well.
