Aug 16, 2019
...good a start as could be imagined, given the circumstances.
But there was a confounding question still, which seemed to rent
space in everyone’s mind: Yes, the university had survived, but
where was it?
This was not a philosophical question. It was a simple matter of
fact, a concrete concern.
“Used to be three weeks, with cart, from Twinbrook,” said one
resident of the University, who operated a food cart both before
and after the Second Spring. “Sure, [I] haven’t made that trip in
eight or nine years, not with everything going on. But [I] could
count on it. Three weeks, with cart.” The man tapped his temple
three times, as if to emphasize the truth of the matter.
While early efforts--DuCarte’s map school, the Spider Silk Gondola
to Alcyon, Feritas’ road project--were progressing on schedule,
there was the gnawing feeling among some in leadership roles that
these moved too slowly. “If even our people, easy-tempered and
well-calloused from the old life want to map this tangle out,”
wrote Corsica Neue in her journal, “then others, those chronically
conditioned by control and ease, must be even more eager
mappers than we.”
-An Excerpt from The Last Days The We Had: A Narrative Catalogue of
Hieron, End Apparent, Pt. 2 by Alonzo Victor Devareaux van der
Dawes
This week on Spring in Hieron: The Second Spring Pt. 2
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