Tell me a story

"Elder?"
"Yes, child?"
"They say you tell the best stories. They say it's like painting pictures with words. That you close your eyes and you see."
"That is kind of them. What do you want to hear about?"
"Tell me of a world, green and blue, of cities with buildings touching the sky, where more people than I could imagine live. Tell me of lush valleys, of endless forests. Tell me of fields of grain spanning beyond horizon. Tell me of oceans full of fantastic creatures."

"Tell me of the world before the bombs fell, the world I've never seen."