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In this episode, Matthew Mitchell narrates 'The Restoration of Orizon', exploring a mysterious city encased in an atmospheric bubble.

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! Welcome to A Bedtime Story. I'm Matthew Mitchell, and tonight's story is titled The Restoration of Orizon, Part 3 of this week's series: The Prism of the Deep. Felix, Juno, and Widget stepped out of the Gilded Needle and into the streets of Orizon. To their surprise, the city was not filled with water; it was encased in a giant atmospheric bubble that felt like a crisp autumn afternoon. The air was perfectly still, and the only sound was the clicking of Widget’s metal feet on the pearl paved roads. "This place is beautiful, but it is definitely missing its residents," Widget said, his head spinning three hundred and sixty degrees to take in the architecture. "And it is awfully grey for a city made of light." Felix noticed that the vibrant colors he had seen in his vision were gone. The coral buildings were a dull ash color, and the crystal towers were cloudy and opaque. At the center of the city sat a massive structure that resembled a lighthouse, but its lantern was empty, a dark void where a flame should have been. "The engine is dead," Juno observed, pointing to the base of the…

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