It was the finest place she had ever seen. Here gold and crystal were not 
hidden away in the King's treasury but were used as building materials. Green 
and growing things were everywhere, for King Coyote was fascinated by the 
secrets of nature and had sent his agents to the farthest reaches of the world 
to bring back exotic seeds. The wide boulevards of King Coyote's city were 
lined with trees whose arching limbs closed over the ashlars to form a rustling 
vault. The undersides of the leaves were silver and seemed to cast a gentle 
light, and the branches were filled with violet and magenta bromeliads the size 
of kettles, making a sweet sharp smell, aswarm with ruby-throated hummingbirds 
and filled with water where tiny fluorescent frogs and beetles lived.