{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Audius","provider_url":"https://audius.co","title":"The Abandoned City Of Amber by Justin Empire • Audius","description":"The Abandoned City Of Amber\n\nSome doors should never have been opened.\n\nIn a forgotten age, beyond the reach of history, lies a magnificent civilisation built from ancient stone. Its vast cities are silent and forbidding, their towering buildings covered with millions of flowers, plants and trees. Yet beneath the eerie beauty lives a peaceful people of witches, wizards and magical beings who have mastered the art of good magic.\n\nTheir world is powered by amber — more precious than gold or palladium — harvested not from mines, but from extraordinary magical trees that grow throughout their vast forests and jungles.\n\nThese are no ordinary trees.\n\nThey flower in dazzling colours, produce glowing fruit in millions of hues and release a magical air filled with beautiful aromas. The air can heal the sick and even extend life. The people of Amber do not simply grow these trees.\n\nThey love them.\n\nThe trees are regarded as their children. They are never cut down. They are cared for, spoken to and listened to — because the trees can speak back.\n\nFor thousands of years, the civilisation has lived in harmony with them.\n\nUntil humanity finds a way in.\n\nWhen a young member of a modern group inherits a strange, filthy object from their grandmother, nobody knows what it is. It looks like nothing more than an old, dirty melon sculpture.\n\nBut during a dinner party, the mysterious object is cleaned.\n\nSuddenly, it begins to glow with millions of colours.\n\nA gigantic doorway materialises in the room and gracefully glides open.\n\nBeyond it lies a world that should not exist.\n\nThe City of Amber.\n\nThe humans step through.\n\nAt first, they believe they have discovered the greatest wonder in human history. But their fascination soon turns into curiosity — and curiosity becomes temptation.\n\nSeeing the magnificent amber trees, they begin to wonder whether they could make the perfect Christmas trees.\n\nThey decide to cut some down.\n\nOne tree.\n\nThen another.\n\nAnd they conduct a simple experiment: how long can these extraordinary trees survive without water?\n\nThey are about to discover that the trees are not merely connected to one another.\n\nThey are one living organism.\n\nThe people of Amber feel the first tree die.\n\nThen another.\n\nTheir peaceful civilisation erupts in fury.\n\nThe humans flee back through the magical doorway, believing the danger has been left behind.\n\nThey are wrong.\n\nThe people of Amber find the doorway to Earth.\n\nArmies of magical beings pour","html":"","width":500,"height":480,"thumbnail_url":"https://audius-creator-9.theblueprint.xyz/content/baeaaaiqseao5puu5xtuh7yclyd5zj3bvlxylquadff3y53ir747oiyekuul2i/480x480.jpg","thumbnail_width":480,"thumbnail_height":480,"author_name":"Justin Empire","author_url":"https://audius.co/kissinginlove","cache_age":3600}