It was strange to think that this twisted forest of malformed structures had once been the most prosperous city in human history; the place from which - for nearly two centuries - a welter of artistic and scientific innovations had sprung. Now even the locals were admitting that the place had seen better days. With little in the way of irony they were calling it the City That Never Wakes Up, because so many thousands of its one-time rich were now frozen in cryocrypts, skipping centuries in the hope that this period was only an aberration in the city’s fortunes. Chasm City’s border was the
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