How It All Goes Down
Valentine
- As punishment for skipping work, Tom gets sent down to the Gut—London's engine room.
- He ends up on the receiving end of a pleasant surprise: tonight's supervisor is Thaddeus Valentine—author, archeologist, and Tom's hero. Valentine's pretty much Indiana Jones with a sword instead of a whip and an airship instead of a bi-plane.
- The cherry on this sundae: Valentine's beautiful daughter, Katherine, is with him. And so is her dog, Dog. Well, it's a wolf named Dog, but that doesn't make the name sound any better. Maybe later we'll meet her bat, Bird; her dolphin, Fish; and her guinea pig, Gerbil.
- They go check out what was salvaged from Salthook, the town London devoured.
- Hoping to impress Valentine, Tom scours the junk and finds something of value: an old CD. Ooh, shiny.
- Valentine is chatting with the scavengers when one of them leaps toward him with a knife. Egads.