Attachment before loss.
The flowers are not magic. Greyfall is beautiful because people live, trade, wait for someone, and learn the sound of its bells. The city must become real before any later state can hurt.
Greyfall is a route-city people remember after they leave. Pale blossoms gather along grey-blue canals, small bridges carry bells for safe crossing, and market streets open between low houses and flower-covered towers.
Greyfall once had a season of flowers everyone who left the city remembered.
The flowers are not magic. Greyfall is beautiful because people live, trade, wait for someone, and learn the sound of its bells. The city must become real before any later state can hurt.
This preview keeps one camera, one bridge-and-canal geometry, and one public state. Later Book 1 surfaces will load only after a true consent gate exists; they are not embedded here now.