Kira Amondugut's A Thousand Cliffs

The town of a thousand cliffs. Surrounded by ravines, dips, and valleys. No way out, and no way in. How people got in, no one knows, not even the people who live there. But, of course, they don’t know outside life exists, and no one on the outside knows either. The town develops by mining ores in the surrounding cliffs, and due to the vast amount and high accessibility of ores, and highly conductive metals, the town’s technology is quite advanced, but the people are more primitive in other ways. The society is controlled by one man, Kira Amondugut. He listens to no one, and when the town was in a state of ruin, he instated himself as the sole ruler, and with an iron fist, turned the town into a functioning society. His presence is questioned by nobody, and those that did in the past, were exiled. …show more content…
No one, in recent memory, except for one, has ever attempted to venture outside of the region, and if any others have, there is no record of it. The one who prepares to venture out is an adventurous girl named Mia Ateke. She was viewed as an odd child when she was young. She never wanted to go to the edge of cliffs, while the other children spent most of their time around them, and many people thought she had a fear of them. Nobody thought that she would survive in the society, but she proved them wrong. She overcame her apparent fear of the cliffs, and she created a petition to go outside of them, with her at the helm of the expedition, of course. Kira questioned allowing this, but has relented, likely due to his own curiosity of the outside. The leaders before, would never have allowed it, as they were quite afraid of the outside, but Kira, is quite confident in the town’s strength. Now, she prepares to leave in the next few hours. Due to the hardships of the trek, the people of the village probably won’t lose sight of her, and her small band until a few hours after they