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Hinterland City - Chosen Site	First Paragraph
Ealing	They begin arriving within days, and then in greater numbers [...] Some turn up with only a bag of clothes, others with entire wagons. One Rubbery magnate arrives with sufficient inventory for a vast amber shop, enough to deck out the whole city.
Evenlode	Newcomers from the Evenlode arrive by night, sometimes dripping wet and accompanied by a lamp-cat. They don't speak of what they've endured. [...] But they're quiet neighbours, even if they do prefer the side of the city that faces away from the Magistracy.
Balmoral	The newcomers from Balmoral arrive with odd clothes and odder manners – not to mention suitcases full of luxuries that can only have come from Upstairs.
Station VIII	The newcomers from Station VIII come [...] They have almost nothing [...] – not even much emotion. They arrive blank-faced and with little to say for themselves, as if stunned. It's only with time and a few rounds down the pub that they begin to fill out again.
Burrow	The newcomers from Burrow-infra-Mump are very keen on organisation at a local level: on neighbourhood nicknames and block parties [...] There are more statues in the gardens after they arrive; more candles set in niches; more bells hung beside the doors.
Moulin	The newcomers are folk who thought they had some business in Moulin, or (worse) at the Hurlers [...] A number are former academics who have seen too much [...] They cluster [...] and begin to compose a history of this city instead. The evidence is easier to hand [...]
Marigold	The newcomers are mostly devils. They know how to ingratiate themselves; and they are experts on exile. They know just what to say to make a person glad he left his old home behind. Soon each Tracklayer believes themself the hero of a grand revolt.

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Hinterland City - Founding Body	Second Paragraph
Furnace Ancona	They arrive with work clothes and boxes of possessions. No: boxes of contraband. No one leaves those taskmasters without wanting to filch a little something for oneself.
Furnace Ancona, Starved	They are cautious [...]. Some try to disguise their condition with long coats and tall hats. Some merely slump their shoulders and hope no one will look into their faces. They know they would not find an easy welcome in London. But perhaps out here [...]
Cornelius	It is the architecture that draws them, and a musty quality in the air. The city is not old, but it is understanding about scars, and about not wanting to put all of oneself on show.
Your Own Double	The reputation of the place has reached Upward. That will be your Double's doing: you are well-known, and your memories of the Surface clear. [...] almost all have come because there was something above they needed to leave behind.
The Double of the Manager	Polythreme has heard of this city. How could it be otherwise? Some arrive in curiosity; some because they wish to choose this city over their own King; some simply because there are other Clay men here.