A View On Avalon

Hovering on negaforce, Arinnian savors the view of the Avalonian city, Gray:

"The town sprawled across hills green with trees and susin, color-patched with gardens, that ringed Falkayn Bay." (Rise Of The Terran Empire, p. 442)

Sail-driven hydrofoil pleasure boats skim across the sea;
robots load cargo ships at the docks;
one cargo ship approaches from the Brendan Islands;
another stands out on the sun-lit, silver-flaring Hesperian Sea;
elsewhere, the sea is sapphire, then purple on the horizons;
the sun Laura is low and aureate;
the sky is a slowly darkening blue with high cirrus clouds that Arinnian sees as feathers;
there is a salt breeze;
Ythrians, human beings, draculas, aircars and vans are in flight;
an intercontinental liner lands at the airport;
higher up, space warcraft are on patrol because of imminent war against the Terran Empire;
beyond the coastal range and the central valley, he sees the highest peaks in the Coronan continent, called the Andromedas in Anglic and the Weathermother in Planha;
around Gray are Ythrian and human ranches;
three ecologies blend together;
human beings grow grain;
Ythrians graze maukh and mayaw;
oak, pine, windnest and hammerbranch encroach on native susin where there are still a few barysauroids.