Raising Steam Craig Thomas Cal and Frida have left

Cal and Frida have left the crumbling city of Los Angeles far behind them

One city has already fallen to the drakes formidable legions

strong enough to leave its imprint like a wax cylinder recording

It was still night-time

and against all the odds

Raising Steam Craig Thomas Cal and Frida have leftIts all change for Moist von Lipwig, swindler, conman, and (naturally) head of the Royal Bank and Post Office. A steaming, clanging new invention, driven by Dick Simnel, the man with tflat cap and tsliding rule, is drawing astonished crowds including a few particularly keen young men armed with notepads and very sensible rainwear and suddenly its a matter of national importance that the trains run on time. Moist does not enjoy hard work. His . . .