Collateral · Reaching for Sandhi
Locations
A working city. A path behind a pie kiosk. A dry channel where a coyote has problems of its own. Places that ask different things of those who enter them.
Introductions offer a way in. Each place’s story discussion stays closed until you choose to read it.
The City
An inland city whose recovery works, and whose ordinary streets reveal what its systems miss.
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The Hollow
A small foothill community where belonging grows through work, repair, and the freedom to remain different.
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The Wadi
A dry watercourse where discarded wire brings the travelers into an animal’s urgent, untranslatable life.
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Teaser Ridge
A mountain settlement whose narrow strip of farmland depends on a river that no longer behaves as it once did.
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Paid For
Martha and Gideon’s isolated farm, where a home’s meaning exceeds its material value.
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Amalgamated’s Offices
The workplace where civic responsibility, inventive pleasure, and institutional limits share the same rooms.
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The Stack
A civilization-scale intelligence, and a perceptual environment through which Rowan encounters the city.
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