a city that never sleeps. Some might call it a city that always sleeps. Some might not call it a city at all; it is a matter of perspective. Indeed, if you were given an instant to stand over the city, you would hardly find any qualities associated with cities of old. If you were granted such an instant, you would be standing on a field of black metal, stretching to the horizon and back, as far as the eye could see. And yet you could not see, as the metal would seem to consume all light, engulfing the world in perpetual darkness