[ WP ] Begin and end your story with this sentence : `` And yet , the city remained . ''

And yet, the city remained. 
 
 It had faced gruesome wars and the harshest winters, yet the city remained. It was a shining beacon of hope in the darkness of the Earth. Millions flocked daily to it's homely golden walls, hoping for that feeling of safety that enveloped you like a warm fire in the snow, and were granted their wishes. 
 
 The horizons were ever flecked with the white sails of ships, those of the fishermen, those of the travellers. Not even the blackening clouds of thunderstorms could churn the waters of the sapphire of the ocean. 
 
 It was thriving, it was plain to see. This place of happiness was desperately grasped for by humanity, a want, a hunger, seated in the deep-set entitlement of man. 
 
 One bad deed can ruin it all. As the tyrants of the other nations grew in fury and jealousy, they conspired together in order to destroy what they could never have. 
 
 Like an ant under a giant's thumb, the city was wiped out. The walls crumbled, and the rains washed away the weeping that mourned the loss of their paradise. 
 
 Without life, the buildings lost their solidarity to plants and overgrowth, the streets silver pavings stripped down by the birds. 
 
 And yet, the city remained.
