<div align="center">(http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs43/f/2009/060/5/c/Canyon_City_by_ZackF.jpg)</div><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;">Steam rose from the numerous smoke stacks throughout the canyon valley, coming from homes and factories throughout the canyons.  Gears and chains clanked and moved, hauling rocks, ores and trolleys from one end of the canyon to the other.  Trickling water from the aqueduct overhead piped down to feed the steam engines that spun to provide mechanical power.  The entire canyon seemed to be moving, working.<br/><br/>In an office atop the canyon, overlooking the majority of the factories was a fat man in a cheap suit smoking a cigar.  He was, while not the titled owner of the canyon, the mayor and owner of the canyon.  He watched the tiny figures down below working to earn him money in the ore-rich canyon while working themselves deeper and deeper into debt.  Most of them were too busy working and drinking themselves to sleep, but there was one... the girl, Vira.<br/><br/>Another puff of the cigar made him look for the clumsy, scatterbrained girl.  She was mostly docile, trying to keep a steady job far away from anything moving or fragile.  But when she did get an idea in her head and held onto it... she was dangerous.  He was tempted to throw her out in the wastes, but she was cute.  He was tempted to keep her locked away, but people might notice.  No... he'd let her run around and try to keep her out of trouble for his own good.<br/><br/>Vira, meanwhile, was busy.  Covered in grease and dust, she was squirming through the junkyard at the end of the canyon.  While the canyon was fairly dry, there was still enough moisture to let it rust a bit.  Wiggling atop a girder and sitting on it, she tilted her head as she looked at the crude sketch Axel had given her.  She hadn't found the part yet, but she would keep looking.  Axel and her other friends were building their escape from the canyon for adventure!<br/><br/>The girder slipped and she went tumbling into the junk, emerging a moment later with the gizmo Axel wanted, grinning.  Skipping through town, she got a few stares but nothing more, and she arrived at the workshop, "<strong>Axel!  I found the thingy!</strong>"<br/><br/>Setting it on the workbench, she looked up at the airship that was nearly ready.  A main ballast with two trim ballasts would keep them aloft, while large propellers would push them along on their adventures.  They still had a few more things to get, but hopefully Henry would get back soon with the list of groceries.  Normally that would be Vira's job, but she'd begged Axel to go looking this time.  She was a good searcher!  Besides, Henry would help put the part in while Vira had to cook supper.<br/><br/>Squirrel was somewhere, probably finding some guns to shoot stuff with.  That or more copper wire to make a new radio.  The last one had gotten messed up when Vira tripped over it and broke it.  She'd had to run for almost a block as Squirrel chased her with a rolled up newspaper for that.</span><br/><br/><div align="center">(http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs27/i/2008/186/f/b/Airship_2_by_3djinn.jpg)</div>