Flora, fauna and fungi had all established kingdoms within the skeleton towers of the city and the barren, cracked streets which threaded through the skyscrapers like stillborn rivers carving out canyons of steel and dust. The plants had climbed to the peaks of the tallest buildings, the fungus owned the tunnels beneath the city floor and the animals held the streets in their tireless dance of life and death. Man had gone under, far under, beneath the sewers and subway tunnels into the other city that existed beneath. Access corridors, government warehouses, power plants and water purification facilities were home to a new community under Gotham. Even further down were mine tunnels and natural caverns, but those were left to the dreamers, the ones who still bade the Harvesters to come and reap them. Some of the nuclear plants still functioned, albeit on a limited scale. A few of the city grids were still working, including that which had as its cornerstone the Gotham Hospital tower.
