Wren Surveys a Reclaimed Post-Civilization Landscape

the prompt

[0-3s] Wren stands on a high ridge overlooking a vast changed landscape mountains where cities were, forests reclaiming highways, rivers rerouted by decades of neglect. She holds her enormous handmade atlas open, comparing her last map to what she sees. Nothing matches anymore.

[3-7s] She smiles instead of despairing. Opens to a blank page. Begins sketching what she actually sees with extraordinary speed and precision. Camera close-up on her hand working  the drawing appearing in real time, beautiful and accurate.

[7-11s] As she draws, camera cuts between her lines on parchment and the actual landscape her art perfectly capturing the new world. Slow motion on ink touching paper, spreading, defining coastlines and forests that have no other record of existing.

[11-15s] She closes the atlas and straps it back on. Looks at the horizon more unmapped territory ahead than behind. She adjusts her compass. Steps off the ridge into the unknown. Camera aerial pull back one small figure with a pen, walking into an enormous unmapped world. The most important person alive.