Snapshots

==Vulcan==
The ground was hard where she stood. It cracked under her boot leaving an imperfect impression of the sole, though a step away it was soft and didn't impress much at all. Her footfalls were cushioned by course sand. From a distance away a film of dry soil was picked up by scorching wind and sent flying elsewhere; whipping across and peppering her face on its way. The sound in that instance buffeted her also and drowned out most else, forced a dipping of the head and turning down of the eyes from the horizon. Still the environment stayed in the mind...
This was a desert of sand and rock with many angled spires and solid arches of redenned stone studding the landscape- evocative of the Vulcan imagery associated with untamed lands. The sky was a glarey and uncompromising paled Yellow; cloudless but hazy, and the shrubbery was that tired green of long weathered flora. That hot wind blast was followed by another not as fierce coming from a departing shuttle, and with the wind out of her ears the sound of a sophisticated settlement, and the cacophany of many industrious lives drew up from behind her...
A quick turn on the heal and retreat by the way which one had arrived established that the hard ground underfoot transformed into an earthen, bricked path which in a few short strides took you to three steps- from where you left the landscape and entered the city. There were numerous such points around from which you could enter one world from the other... the transition was noticeable and not tied to any philosophy that emphasised the demarcation in relation to a point of thought- rather the planning followed had not brought about a sprawl, and the settlement did not incorporate exposed sections of land. This city was built into the landscape and adopted its colours, general style and began its relationship with its surrounds from there. 
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