Aiko was in a great mood as she hailed a carriage, which was her preferred method of moving around Bastion.
Moving around Bastion was somewhat of a complicated matter, actually. There was already a grand project in the works to simplify it — special tramways meant for street cars were being embedded into the main streets, empowered by primitive sorcery. The rails were cast from a special alloy that allowed them to channel essence, while the trams themselves were enchanted to move by absorbing it.
Now that the Rivergate Hydro had gone operational, though, there were talks of discarding the magical street cars in favor of good old-fashioned electric trams. Aiko suspected that, in the end, both types were going to be implemented, with enchanted tramways serving as the thoroughfares of the public transport network while more mundane ones would branch out from them as satellite outlets.
