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DailyPrompt: Promising Shangri-La
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dailyprompt: 'I will return to Shangri-La,' with a side order of "elation and heartbreak."
Of the same world as these two strange tales:
Moving In
Dancing for Joy
“I will return to Shangri-La.”
It is said that the last settler to leave the ruined alien city declared that as he left, staring back in defiance at the desolation that had destroyed so many of them. It became a war cry of sorts, Talbot’s Promise. Tal’s Cry. “I will return.” We will survive; we will rebuild.
They found places on the blasted planet that were, at the very least, less inhospitable, places where the ground itself did not try to destroy them, cities that had been abandoned for longer, or with less gruesome reminders, at least, than those in the city they had named Shangri-La. Nowhere did they find a place free of the hand of the former residents, but there were places more bearable.
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dailyprompt: 'I will return to Shangri-La,' with a side order of "elation and heartbreak."Of the same world as these two strange tales:
Moving In
Dancing for Joy
“I will return to Shangri-La.”
It is said that the last settler to leave the ruined alien city declared that as he left, staring back in defiance at the desolation that had destroyed so many of them. It became a war cry of sorts, Talbot’s Promise. Tal’s Cry. “I will return.” We will survive; we will rebuild.
They found places on the blasted planet that were, at the very least, less inhospitable, places where the ground itself did not try to destroy them, cities that had been abandoned for longer, or with less gruesome reminders, at least, than those in the city they had named Shangri-La. Nowhere did they find a place free of the hand of the former residents, but there were places more bearable.
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