Inscriptions on Forbidden Areas

The monument boundary has always existed. Before humans learned to use fire, before the first tribes were formed, before language was invented, the world of monuments existed. It is not in the three-dimensional human space, but it always coexists with human civilization. It is the physical manifestation of a set of causal laws and the world's general ledger of the behavior of intelligent life. Monuments began to appear in various cities in a form that humans can perceive. The material is unrecognizable, both solid and not quite solid. It feels normal temperature, with slow heat fluctuations inside. The surface is covered with symbols that do not belong to any known writing system, but under certain conditions, the meaning of the symbols will directly emerge in human consciousness. No one knows whether the seventeen boundary monuments appeared at the same time or one after another. The record is broken. But every city has at least one. It stood there, silent and heavy, like a sentence growing out of the ground.