Constantia’s Cataclysm: The Price of Prosperity - Chapter 1

Calcoria glistened after a rainstorm.

The city perched atop a mountain that had been hollowed into the shape of an apple core. Four trainlines descended to Sapon’s distant mainland in the northeast.

Thousands of ships moved in three slow queues towards the city’s revolving sling-wheels. They sailed onto great hammocks that pulled taut and hoisted them half a mile up to the sky-docks in great sprays of water.