Airs of Jericho Locks

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	Airs of Jericho Locks
1 – 9	A barge heads downriver to London, stacked high with crates.
10 – 24	A man in tweed walks out of the train station, carrying a suitcase heavy with books.
25 – 39	A thick haze of smoke hangs over Jericho Locks, coming from someplace up river.
40 – 49	Strains of viol music sound over the water.
50 – 74	A Devil leans against a lamp-post, smoking a cheroot.
75 – 79	A cedar sapling grows in a planter, fed with contraband sunlight.
80 – 86	A woman from the Ministry of Upper River Development is surveying the land not owned by the Gondoliers.
86 – 89	A woman with pale green teeth is encouraging onlookers not to drink the water in Jericho Locks.
90 – 94	Two men walk past in threadbare academic robes. Thirty years ago, they were students.
95 – 97	The train pulls into the station, seventeen minutes late and with three windows shattered.
98	The train pulls into the station, five whole minutes ahead of schedule.
99	The air is so still that one can hear a deep and distant snore.
100	A young woman with ambitions to learn poisoning arrives at the train station, clutching a notebook.