The City's Two Maps
Every city has two maps: the daytime one records roads and administrative districts; the other, called the night map, records ley lines, wards, old shrines, and monster territories. Most people see only the first their whole lives.
The city is not used by humans alone.
Every city has two maps. The daytime one records roads, administrative districts, the station names along the river-mag line—everyone can see it. The other is called the night map, recording ley lines, wards, old shrines, the territories of monsters, the corners where resentment silts up, and the things that keep watch over the nodes.
The vast majority of people see only the first their whole lives. They believe the city is held up by roads, electricity, and networks. But what truly keeps this city from being devoured by the things on its underside is another system—a nocturnal one that has carried on for a very long time, that no one has written into the textbooks. The two maps overlay the same city, undisturbing each other—until someone boards, in the dead of night, a train that should not exist.
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