Yveca

Twelve buildings compose the entirety of Yveca, the architectural design formatted after the leaflet petals of an Iric blossom. One building in the center, three layered in a rind around it, and eight more positioned to swirl out from the inner circle. At the edges of town are the novel Ire oaks: tall and burly trees with several layers of extending branches reaching higher and higher into the sky as if yearning to meet the sun so high above. At the base of the tree and again from each branch sprout flowers with the colors of a brimming dawn light. At night, these flowers drink from the open air and streams of light like a blazing flame are slowly pulled into their petals from a mysterious source from within the woods. From any distance, the glow offers an impression like a gentle, hazy torchlight.

Outside the miniature town, a shallow marsh surrounds the area and stretches endlessly into the deep woods. Around the city, the waters give an appearance like liquid glass. Marbles of yellow and robin blue ink bubble up from the soil below and stain sections of the marsh with a phosphorescent cloud of swirling color. Here, the townsfolk live by planting their crop beds under the surface of the inked water and into the submerged soil. Seeds planted during the sunrise can grow into maturity, plopping to the surface like bubbles, then easily collected with thrown nets and poles. As the sun seeps under the horizon, the Crosser's Channel begins. One, two, or ten formless monstrosities emerge from the western woods and travel to the eastern trees in search of forgotten crops to feed upon. As a gesture of consideration, the town of Yveca is always intent on leaving a modest share of their haul in a small array of buckets that are left to float beyond the reach of the glowing flowers that seem to ward away the gaseous entities. However, one step beyond their gentle light will result in the buckets abandoned and one more missing face from the town. Only the reverberated screeches from last night's Channel can whisper to what might have happened.