Leaving the Mechanical Palace's glass greenhouse, Horn lifted the carriage curtain and glanced outside.
The Holy Barracks still carried a faint morning mist, and above it, the clock tower's muffled and distant bells echoed. On the streets, laborers and workers carried wooden baskets heading to work in pairs or trios.
They tucked towels into their collars for scarves and wore dirty, tattered "specialized" polyester-linen blend uniforms.
After the Ascension Day holiday, single workers on double overtime staggered out of taverns, moving against the flow of people heading home.
If one were a wealthy artisan or engineer, they would generally choose to take a public carriage to work.
Ordinary workers would head to the dock area, boarding small boats for the downstream industrial district.
Due to the shallow waters of the Parra River, large vessels couldn't enter, so they typically used enlarged versions of Venetian-styled gondola boats.
