A man heard something from across a dead world, turned toward it, and walked. He dug for years to reach it and died at the bottom of the hole he made. The city that grew above it is the most considered place on the continent, and it was built from a description its founders could only half remember.

In this episode:

• The Grand Cogspan Bridge, built across generations by four peoples who each decided in their own time that it was worth committing to
• The Run: a single silent rail that climbs through the city along the route Elmer Mourne walked when he described it out loud
• Concord Halls, the Mistwalk market under knee-height lake mist, and the Skyharbor at the crown of the city
• Cogwright Row at the waterline, the one district on the continent that never stopped burning, and why the aether was offered and refused
• The Black Cog, older than the record, and the reason it appears nowhere in it
• The Fontward Gallery, a gathering floor thrown across an excavation shaft, and what sits at the bottom of it
• What was sealed on the day the digging broke through, and the fact that nobody has ever asked to open it

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