Cue: Just beyond the edge of the woods...

Just beyond the edge of the woods, the nodding snowbells gave way to harsh red rocks which jutted from sparse dry earth, all the way to the city below. Tanokk sighed, as his gaze fixed upon the grimy buildings, a halo of smog hovering proudly over the towns-folk's heads. When would people learn that this was not the answer, that their high-flying, desktop lives came at a price. That the earth would remember in the years to come.

Gingerly, he stroked the bark of the young tree. It saddened him.