Chapter 2

(Widders Dump; an accident and an offering; dead towns; comping station)

Further evidence that Riddley lives in the far future rather than the distant past: this is an Iron Age society that does not mine for ore, but rather digs up ancient machinery and melts it down. Working at the digging site, Riddley abruptly becomes fatherless.

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