As Campanella Fruhling's train speeds on, bearing disaster to the Underground and its denizens, Bishop gives Heine more clues to his past.

In her search for the assassin who "stole her past," Naoto follows Heine and Badou to go see the head of one the Underground;s gangas. But what sarts out as a simple quest for information ends up as a rampageous firefight.

"Two hundred years in the future, refugees from an environmental cataclysm have fled underground. They survive, scrounging out a living in a twisted maze of tunnels and canals. Scavengers, mistitfs, bandits, renegades and mutants are among the citizens of this subterranean realm. They are sewerfolk, their home, the bowels of a utopian city that was never completed. Life is hard enough, but an overzealous mining company, PERCH wants to get their claws...

"An anonymous official chides a man under surveillance for stepping out of view of a security camera; visitors to an underground mall are forced to form a new society when a nuclear strike may (or may not) have left them as the sole survivors on Earth; newlyweds living in an authoritarian New York City attempt to navigate the insidious hurdles of being permitted to have a child; and a Puerto Rican boxer discovers that segregation continues in America,...