The Calmiríë Chthonic Railway

Alistair Young

Mar 29, 2020 — 1 min read

It’s been a while since I gave you folks a map, so here, I’m giving you folks a map:

Should you find yourself needing to find a way around the central region of the capital, this should come in rather handy.

On another note, and one less relevant to writing, our 3D printer here at Chez Author chose this last week to break on us, and since it’s a fairly key part of our business that funds, y’know, mortgages and other key writing supplies, we’re gonna need another one. And in this highly inopportune time of economic and coronavirus brouhaha, this means that I am once more resorting to shameless blegging.

So please, if you can, toss a coin to your author. And if you can’t, please reshare. Every tiny bit helps!

(Hell, I may even throw in a 3D-printed esteyn by way of thanks.)

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