The Undercity
Cities are living, breathing things. The city surface- streets and buildings- is the skin of the city. And beneath that skin pulses a massive circulatory system that conducts people, power, and waste around the city.
As cities grow and age, that infrastructure changes. Old tunnels are sealed up and forgotten. New tunnels are built, and eventually forgotten in turn. Cities like New York keep growing down, deeper and deeper until no one but Dwarves could have any idea what the true extent of NYC’s man-made caverns truly are.
In my hometown of Kingston, NY, a tunnel connecting buildings in the old Stockade district (dating back to the late 1600s) was found and it contained a cache of revolutionary war era clothing that had been long forgotten.
I am not ambitious enough to go grubbing through the forgotten caverns of my city, but I’m glad that others are. There are all sorts of treasures and mysteries lurking beneath us.
NIGHTNIGHT by DEDDY
