*A 30-second ambient composition generated with Gemini Lyria* --- Before the city stirs, the grove is already awake. In the year this music imagines, the land on the edge of the city has been returned — not merely preserved, but actively restored. Where once there was concrete and wire, there is now a corridor of oaks, birch, and understory shrub that stretches three miles to the river. The birds have come back. The insects have come back. And at dawn, when the light first touches the canopy,
