
London, England in the second half of the twenty-first century, is not a pleasant place. Its structures, social and actual are crumbling, collapsing piece by piece, dust by dust. It has become even more than before a breeding ground for misery, strife and ongoing unrest...

This is said to be the age of enlightenment and reason... The hunters are dying off, they say. Their day is done, in favor of the new, enlightened time of neon lights, technology and civilization.
A culmination of thousands of years' development and illumination.
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