On the train bound for River Valley Province, Dora and Little Koala lay against the window, excitedly watching the ever-changing scenery outside. Dora practically wanted to stick her nose through the glass.
From pleasant oases to castles blending into the mountains, then to endless deserts, everything she saw along the way was a magnificent sight she had never seen before.
The surprise and excitement on her face were no less intense than when she had first seen the sea.
"This world... is so huge!"
All the excitement she could never put into words ultimately became this one sentence when it reached her lips.
As she repeated it over and over, Dora felt nothing but gratitude that she had resolutely chosen to follow the Progenitor into the sky.
Though she was a little lonely because she would never see her family again, being able to witness sights she might never have seen in an entire lifetime made her feel that even dying tomorrow would leave her with no regrets.
The inhabitants of the forest did not care about the length of life.
In the culture of the Doma people, how long someone would live was decided from the day they were born. Born from the Tree of Insoff, they would eventually return to the tree in another form.
Just like Dora.
Little Koala, who had been hastily born one day more than two hundred years ago, was also seeing these wondrous sights for the first time.
Its astonishment was no less than Dora's as it muttered to itself.
"So this is the planet where my father once lived..."
"Sunset Province? It doesn't seem quite the same as the one in the database. The database showed endless automated farmland and irrigation systems... For such a vast region to have turned into a