Has anyone known that regions exist where artificial lights are not required at night, and your home is wholly lit during the day they are still lit? Where is this? In the mountains of Olcia, the forest trees contain their own glowing light. A blaze of luminous hues resembles a city of artificial lights. I’m Retinee. I live in one of those trees. It’s a tree resembling a mushroom; its stem towers several feet. The cap has several things protruding out of it, oblong in shape that glows with its unique colors. I reside inside the lid; it’s still a growing functioning tree. It’s not a fungus, a tree that resembles a mushroom. I have some furniture, a table, and chairs, mainly I sit on the floor with a small rug. The rest are the natural parts of the cap’s or tree top’s interior. Can I turn off the glow? No, during the night, there is a need for darkness so I can sleep. I use an artificial device that absorbs darkness from the night; it creates darkness in my bedroom. Other places need artificial lights at night, Olcia darkness precious. Sometimes even if the sky is dark, it looks like a very early twilight.
Animals here float here and there like the ocean; some scurry across the ground, cautious of predators. The afterglow from the trees and plants extends well beyond Olcia to another forest that doesn’t glow. The animals there devise various techniques in hiding. In Olcia, they hide in the thick vegetation hoping the combined bright glows would blind the predator.
Trees float in the air. A balloon-like tree with giant palm-like leaves on the top, roots branching out everywhere in the air, and one single slender source reaching the ground. Thousands of jelly animals congregate on its surface to eat insects. They drift lazily, then dash frantically from place to place. The swarms they create are beautiful at night.
I’ve lived in cities with nightly artificial lights, and the tensions of the lights threw me into my own private turmoil. Living in the mountains of Olcia, I feel the warmth of the glow lulling me to sleep even if I’m surrounded by artificial darkness. It’s a glow harmonizing with the daylight, and I feel safe, as if the light has compassion.
